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# Consumer focused smart metering journeys

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/consumer-focused-smart-metering-journeys-ocds-h6vhtk-05a90f). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Consumer Council for Water: "Consumer focused smart metering journeys". Published status: complete. Published Value: £80,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 24 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST. Published submission portal: public.bravosolution.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Consumer Council for Water](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/ccw-gov-pb198)
- **Published Value:** £80,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 24 October 2025 at 23:59 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Below threshold - open competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Market research services, Research services, Social research services
- **Delivery Location:** UK, UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK, UKL
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £72,202 (exc. VAT, 1 award)
- **Official Documents:** 3 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/consumer-focused-smart-metering-journeys-ocds-h6vhtk-05a90f#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05a90f`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/consumer-focused-smart-metering-journeys-ocds-h6vhtk-05a90f#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [public.bravosolution.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublic.bravosolution.co.uk%2F)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/consumer-focused-smart-metering-journeys-ocds-h6vhtk-05a90f#participate

## Description
CCW wishes to appoint a market research agency to provide qualitative and potentially quantitative research services to: 
Understand experiences of the household customer journey to smart metering for different household segments  
Understand what an ideal journey would look like for different segments 
Within the journey, consider the delivery of the smart metering process itself, including, but not limited to: 
information provision (what, when and how) 
and practical support for consumers such as help for low-income households 
water saving advice 
awareness of supply pipe responsibility 
and water company leakage policies. 
Explore awareness of the context in which universal metering schemes are currently happening, and identify what consumers see as legitimate reasons for rolling out smart metering programmes (e.g. water resources/environmental drought, cost of different ways of ensuring there is sufficient water for now and the long term)  
At high-level gauge consumer sentiment to the potential to use variable tariffs to help manage water use at peak times of day and in the summer. 
The research will mainly be with household water bill-payers in England and Wales, in areas which reflects a mix of water companies, and water resource contexts.  For some research objectives it may be appropriate, where meaningful, to include future bill-payers

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 73110000, 79310000, 79315000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £80,000

- **Contract Period:** 11/11/2025 to 31/07/2026

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Consumer focused smart metering journeys (active)
  - Award id: `1`
  - Supplier(s): **BLUE MARBLE RESEARCH LIMITED**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-144324`
  - Value: £72,202 (exc. VAT)
  - Date: 24/11/2025

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Consumer focused smart metering journeys (active)
  - Signed Value: £72,202
  - Signed Date: 13/02/2026

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F062654-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-02-13T11:43:46.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T11:02:34.013Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-05a90f