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# Continuous Water Quality Monitoring (CWQM)

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/continuous-water-quality-monitoring-cwqm-ocds-h6vhtk-055712). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** United Utilities Water Limited: "Continuous Water Quality Monitoring (CWQM)". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: £120,000,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [United Utilities Water Limited](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/united-utilities-water-limited-coh-02366678)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £120,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Added-value database services, Calibration services, Data analysis services, Data capture services, Data collection and collation services (+17 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UKD
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/continuous-water-quality-monitoring-cwqm-ocds-h6vhtk-055712#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-055712`

## Before you bid
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- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
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- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/continuous-water-quality-monitoring-cwqm-ocds-h6vhtk-055712#tl-md)

## Description
Water companies have a duty under Section 82 of the Environment Act to protect the environment from the effects of discharges from storm overflows and wastewater treatment works. Water companies are required to monitor the quality of water potentially affected by, upstream and downstream, discharges from these assets. This requires the monitoring of the following parameters: (a) levels of dissolved oxygen, (b) temperature and pH values, (c) turbidity, (d) levels of ammonia, and (e) levels of conductivity, and (f) anything else specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State. These measurements will typically be made in rivers and/or a local measurement kiosk and we would request evidence for the equipment operating in such an environment both during routine operation and under exceptional conditions such as storms. Appropriate and independent 3rd party validation of sensor monitoring technology performance would be of interest at this stage. It is expected that the systems will be mounted directly in the river or will required a sample pumping into a kiosk. Such equipment is required. All equipment must have its own power supply, ancillaries and logger/telemetry unit. The application also requires the functionality to achieve the following: - Continuously monitor and log data (every 15 minutes) in river levels as low as 40mm. - Provide a telemetry interface and a public facing portal which can display values in near real time and provide reporting capabilities. Data should be exportable via API and other common interfaces. United Utilities operate approximately 2300 Combined Sewer Overflows, and 575 Wastewater Treatment works which are impacted by this new requirement. The overall numbers of installations for AMP8 (2025-2030) are confirmed at 633 to provide 25% coverage. The remaining 75% will be delivered in AMP9 (2030-2035). United Utilities are looking for indicative costs, per installation, based on the following procurement routes: - Supply of instrumentation - Design, build and installation of instrumentation sampling kiosks - Service and maintenance of the above at the mandated 4 weekly intervals - Provision, management and administration of telemetry and a web based portal for the above. - Readings taken every 15 minutes. All readings to be transmitted every 20 minutes. - Supply to monitor equipment health and generated data on a continual basis and report anomalies to United Utilities. Instrumentation and the monitoring arrangement shall be suitable for monitoring the required parameters in an appropriate range for the application. Solutions may be based on multi-parameter sondes, process instrumentation or chemistry analysers or a combination of either. All provision shall comply with the DEFRA Continuous Water Quality Programme Interim Technical Standard V1.0 Issue 1.0 August 2024. In addition, all installations shall comply with Environment Agency Regulatory Position Statement 333 Installing Small Scale Monitoring Instruments ...
> [Read full procurement scope and specification on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/continuous-water-quality-monitoring-cwqm-ocds-h6vhtk-055712)

## Lots (1)
### Lot LOT-0000: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `LOT-0000`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 32441200, 38810000, 45315300, 48610000, 50000000, 50410000
- **Delivery regions:** UKD
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 01/11/2025 to 31/03/2030

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F036558-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-07-01T16:16:39.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T02:45:14.251Z
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