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Buyer: THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED →

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BuyerTHAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED
StatusClosed
Deadline23 Mar 2026
Value£160,000,000
Published23 Feb 2026

What is being bought

We are looking for one or more partners to deliver the following services: Lot 1 - Facilities Management - including cleaning, helpdesk, building maintenance and minor works Lot 2 - Security Guards - static guarding to mainly 29 operational and corporate sites plus adhoc security guarding as required Lot 3 - Catering across 3 corporate sites Lot 4 - Vending services - supply, stocking and maintenance of hot drink and can/snack machines across 18 operational and corporate sites. Each lot to be awarded to one supplier but suppliers can be successful for more than one lot. Facilities Management services vary significantly by site but touch all of our 3,935 sites to some extent as it includes a lot of our compliance responsibilities as well as reactive call-out services. All 4 lots will be awarded for an initial 5 year term as we want suppliers to work with us for the long term to deliver sustainable improvements to our estate and help us make a difference. Thames Water reserves the right to refine the award criteria. Please note that that deadline for asking for access to the PSQ & submitting of the PSQ is Monday 23 March 2026, at 10:00 am .

Delivery location

UKI, GB · UKJ, GB · UKI, GB · UKJ, GB · UKI, GB · UKJ, GB · UKI, GB · UKJ, GB

Categories

Vending machines 42933000Drinks dispensers 42968100Catering services 55520000Security services 79710000Building and facilities management services 79993000Cleaning services of office equipment 90919100

Lot details

Facilities Management

This facilities management lot encompasses both soft and hard services at nearly 4,000 sites across the Thames Water region to various extents. For example 102 sites require cleaning, 144 require HVAC maintenance, 812 sites require asbestos surveys, 854 sites require legionella testing, 94 sites require fire system maintenance and all sites may require reactive call-outs. In addition to site-based activities, we also have 113 water fountains and 19 public spaces we need you to clean and maintain across London City. We require one supplier to directly deliver or manage subcontractors to deliver the entire range of services and to staff a helpdesk to manage incoming calls/requests and site access management. We are looking for a proactive supplier who can work with us to generate and implement ideas on how to ensure compliance and improve standards on our sites. Note that minor reactive work is included in the scope of this lot up to a maximum of £15,000 per project which will be directly awarded.

Statusactive
Value£117,000,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2027 to 31 Mar 2032
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Technical (55%)
Commercial (40%)
Contractual terms (5%)

Security guard services

We are looking for one security partner to work with us to provide security guards across a range of permanent Thames Water locations as well as surge guarding and adhoc support in times of security events both on and off Thames Water sites. We currently have static guards on 29 sites including operational and corporate office sites who mainly manage access control for our staff, our visitors and our contractors during site opening hours. In addition we have events on sites such as broken access control and in public places such as guarding bottled water stations which require temporary guarding, sometimes taking over from our emergency mobile patrols. Please note that NSI Silver is a mandatory requirement.

Statusactive
Value£38,000,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2027 to 31 Mar 2032
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Technical (55%)
Commercial (40%)
Contractual terms (5%)

Catering services

We are looking for a catering provider to work with us to offer a subsidised coffee, snack and hot meal provision in our three main office buildings: two in Reading and one in Swindon town centre. We require the provider to provide breakfast, lunch and snacks to our office-based staff as well as hospitality services if required on site. The catering provider will be responsible for waste segregation, providing consumables and maintaining Thames Water-owned catering equipment.

Statusactive
Value£3,000,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2027 to 31 Mar 2032
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Technical (55%)
Commercial (40%)
Contractual terms (5%)

Vending services

We are looking for one vending supplier to provide us with a fully managed service for hot drink and snack/can vending to include machine provision, replenishment, cleaning and maintenance across 18 corporate and operational sites for at least five years.

Statusactive
Value£1,190,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2027 to 31 Mar 2032
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Technical (55%)
Commercial (40%)
Contractual terms (5%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Building and facilities management services, Cleaning services of office equipmentNot published
2Security servicesNot published
3Catering servicesNot published
4Vending machines, Drinks dispensersNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 42. The category anchor is Vending machines (42933000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 421,4804 median · 56.1 average (470 of 1,480 with a bid count)5.9 average (502 of 1,480 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer4Not published6 average (1 of 4 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKI9813.5 median · 45.8 average (26 of 98 with a bid count)12.2 average (27 of 98 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)5639 median · 39 average (1 of 56 with a bid count)3 average (1 of 56 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementYes
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeutilities
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
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.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-065a39
Latest release ID016112-2026
Latest release timestampMon Feb 23 2026 14:16:48 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016112-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadline2026-03-23T10:00:00Z
Enquiry deadline2026-03-16T17:00:00Z
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-12-11T23:59:59Z
Submission method detailsPlease complete this form: https://forms.office.com/e/kxQC19vt7x
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£160,000,000
Tender lots in source4
Tender items in source4
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
23 Feb 2026tender016112-2026

All source data

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

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
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