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Extension to Field Service for Above Ground Assets

Buyer: UNITED UTILITIES WATER LIMITED →

BuyerUNITED UTILITIES WATER LIMITED
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published2 Dec 2025

What is being bought

United Utilities Water Limited (United Utilities) has a requirement to replace its current system for planning, scheduling and otherwise managing field operations for issues arising in relation to United Utilities' portfolio of above ground assets. These above ground assets primary include treatment works, pumping stations and other assets that perform active processes in the management its clean water operations and waste water operations. As a result, United Utilities have worked with a Technology framework partner to identify and document a comprehensive set of requirements for a replacement system and to map those requirements against systems available in the market. As part of this, consideration was given to alignment to United Utilities' technology strategy, which includes maximising operational efficiencies, reduce technical complexity and risk whilst lowering operating costs by rationalising our technology estate where appropriate. United Utilities already have a system for planning scheduling and otherwise managing field operations in relation to its below ground assets. These below ground assets primarily include United Utilities' distribution network of water pipes, waste water sewers and associated infrastructure which are typically situated below ground. This existing system is powered by the "Field Service" platform supplied by and licensed from Salesforce. This consists of core licences to the Field Service system (the Core System) plus a number of associated supplemental "add on" products that are required to deliver a production service (e.g. a support service known as "signature support", a sandbox facility for test purposes and "Audit Field Trail" for system record keeping purposes). This provides an end to end service for managing the promotion of required activities, for work management, scheduling, work execution and mobile management. This is referred to below as the Existing Below Ground Use Case. Following the output of the technology partner review exercise referred to above, it is intended to award a contract to Salesforce for additional licenses for the Core System, plus the provision of equivalent add-on products and services to those referenced above, plus the provision and licensing of "Agent Force for Field Service" and "Event Monitoring" as further supplemental add-on products. This is referred to below as the Supplemental Above Ground Use Case. The primary reasons for this proposal are to avoid disproportionate technical difficulties arising from a new system being incompatible and / or different from United Utilities' existing systems environment. In particular expanding United Utilities' current use of the Core System and associated add-ons by adopting it for the Supplemental Above Ground Use Case will achieve this objective because it: • leverages existing skilled resources, and existing support arrangements both with Salesforce and with 3rd party support providers that are equally applicable to the Existing Below Ground Use Case and the Supplemental Above Ground Use Case; • aligns with existing system architecture and colleague familiarity (both in-house technical experts and workforce operating across both the Existing Below Ground Use Case and the Supplemental Above Ground Use Case) • avoids insofar as possible technical and operational complexity and resulting difficulties which would arise from a requirement for UU to integrate with separate external systems to those currently used for the Existing Below Ground Use Case; • avoids duplicate supplier management that would otherwise be required if we were to adopt a different system to that currently used for the Existing Below Ground Use Case; • by utilising the same supplier for both process and network assets, it ensures a unified supplier model with one accredited partner responsible for configuration, maintenance, consistent security and change control across operations covering both use cases.

Lot details

Lot 1

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Statuscomplete

Comparable-procurement analytics

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Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleUnited Utilities intends to enter into contract with Salesforce for an expanded planning and scheduling solution for its above ground assets on the following basis: The public contract concerns the supply of goods, services or works by the existing supplier, which are intended as an extension to or partial replacement of existing goods, services or works in circumstances where a) a change in supplier would result in the contracting authority receiving goods, services or works that are different from or incompatible with the existing goods services or works; and b) the difference or incompatibility would result in disproportionate technical difficulties in operation or maintenance.
Rationale classificationsadditionalRepeatExtensionPartialReplacement
Special regimeutilities
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Documents & submission route

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Source data inventory

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OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05eb71
Latest release ID078893-2025
Latest release timestampTue Dec 02 2025 12:40:35 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methoddirect
Procurement method detailsDirect award
Main procurement categoryNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source0
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release2

Notice history

DateEventReference
2 Dec 2025award, contract078893-2025
28 Nov 2025award, contract078278-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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