Official UK procurement notice
Common Data Environment Software
Authority: SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCommon Data Environment (CDE)
This preliminary market engagement is intended to inform Severn Trent's approach to procuring a Common Data Environment (CDE) capability to support capital delivery across a large, multi party project portfolio. The purpose of this engagement is to understand current market capabilities, delivery models, and integration approaches,
Modular and best of breed approaches are explicitly in scope, provided they can operate effectively at enterprise scale and integrate with adjacent systems including design authoring applications.
This PME is focused solely on CDE capabilities. References to design tools or asset information are limited to integration and contextual use within the CDE and should not be interpreted as requirements for authoring functionality or full asset data management, which are being considered separately.
We are interested in hearing about CDE platforms with the following key capabilities:
- Multi-organisation and user management, including configurable roles, permissions, and access controls across programmes and projects
- ISO 19650-aligned information management, including document-level quality assurance workflows, approvals, status codes, and controlled transitions between WIP, Shared, and Published states
- Standards-compliant metadata and naming, with robust version control and auditability
- Ability to capture and manage information against an asset or system hierarchy defined by project requirements, for contextual association and retrieval of documents and models within the CDE.
- Comprehensive viewing and interrogation of industry-standard file formats (e.g. RVT, IFC, DWG, DWF), including measurement, inspection, and markup tools
- Native or integration-led model federation and coordination capabilities
- High performance and scalability to support a large portfolio (e.g. thousands of concurrent projects and large data volumes)
- Support for either in-platform or integration-led document editing and collaborative authoring, beyond a simple file repository model
- Ability to work with a range of file types, including common office formats and digital design files, noting that not all formats are expected to be edited natively
- Compliance with organisational information security, data hosting, and residency policies (e.g. UK or EU-based hosting)
- Open APIs and integration capabilities, including exposure of file metadata for downstream reporting and analytics platforms (e.g. Power BI)
- Task, issue, and workflow management associated with documents and models
- Mobile access via applications or equivalent interfaces
- Support for digital design referencing mechanisms (e.g. external references, links, data shortcuts)
- Native forms functionality to support structured data capture
- Strong platform administration capabilities, including user management, licensing, and programme-wide configuration (via UI or APIs)
- Comprehensive activity logging and audit trails linking user actions to file and data changes
- Ability to synchronise file metadata with drawing and model title blocks, with bi-directional updates where applicable
- Automated PDF rendition and publishing triggered by workflow status changes
CPV: Information technology services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED buys Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222), and who usually turns up
SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in West Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside West Midlands.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 60 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid17% / 13%
2–30% / 32%
4–650% / 24%
7+33% / 31%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate41%
Within ±2%45%
Above estimate14%
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 7222Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 49 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–324%
4–639%
7+29%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 7 May 2026, 15:51 BST
- Last source update
- 8 May 2026, 10:20 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-042319- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0693b9Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
7 May 2026 → 1 Nov 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published166 days ago7 May 2026, 15:51 BST
- Market engagement134 days ago8 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Common Data Environment (CDE)
This preliminary market engagement is intended to inform Severn Trent's approach to procuring a Common Data Environment (CDE) capability to support capital delivery across a large, multi party project portfolio. The purpose of this engagement is to understand current market capabilities, delivery models, and integration approaches,
Modular and best of breed approaches are explicitly in scope, provided they can operate effectively at enterprise scale and integrate with adjacent systems including design authoring applications.
This PME is focused solely on CDE capabilities. References to design tools or asset information are limited to integration and contextual use within the CDE and should not be interpreted as requirements for authoring functionality or full asset data management, which are being considered separately.
We are interested in hearing about CDE platforms with the following key capabilities:
- Multi-organisation and user management, including configurable roles, permissions, and access controls across programmes and projects
- ISO 19650-aligned information management, including document-level quality assurance workflows, approvals, status codes, and controlled transitions between WIP, Shared, and Published states
- Standards-compliant metadata and naming, with robust version control and auditability
- Ability to capture and manage information against an asset or system hierarchy defined by project requirements, for contextual association and retrieval of documents and models within the CDE.
- Comprehensive viewing and interrogation of industry-standard file formats (e.g. RVT, IFC, DWG, DWF), including measurement, inspection, and markup tools
- Native or integration-led model federation and coordination capabilities
- High performance and scalability to support a large portfolio (e.g. thousands of concurrent projects and large data volumes)
- Support for either in-platform or integration-led document editing and collaborative authoring, beyond a simple file repository model
- Ability to work with a range of file types, including common office formats and digital design files, noting that not all formats are expected to be edited natively
- Compliance with organisational information security, data hosting, and residency policies (e.g. UK or EU-based hosting)
- Open APIs and integration capabilities, including exposure of file metadata for downstream reporting and analytics platforms (e.g. Power BI)
- Task, issue, and workflow management associated with documents and models
- Mobile access via applications or equivalent interfaces
- Support for digital design referencing mechanisms (e.g. external references, links, data shortcuts)
- Native forms functionality to support structured data capture
- Strong platform administration capabilities, including user management, licensing, and programme-wide configuration (via UI or APIs)
- Comprehensive activity logging and audit trails linking user actions to file and data changes
- Ability to synchronise file metadata with drawing and model title blocks, with bi-directional updates where applicable
- Automated PDF rendition and publishing triggered by workflow status changes
Providers can submit responses via our SAP Business Network posting located at portal.us.bn.cloud.ariba.com/dashboard/public/app… ↗
If you experience a problem with the link, please search and navigate to SAP Business Network. You can then search for ID - 1110012437, or Sourcing - Doc3110320763, or "Common Data Environment".
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 132 days1 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 376 days1 Nov 2027
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 7 May 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published7 May 2026, 15:51 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 May 2026, 10:20 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Additional details of how to navigate to the opportunity on SAP Business Network.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender