Official UK procurement notice
Ground Investigation · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Anglian Water Services (Public body)
What is being bought5 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThis Planned Procurement Notice (PPN) offers Anglian Water Services Ltd (AWS) the opportunity to connect with and notify the supplier market of our upcoming Grounds Investigation (GI) Framework for use within the Anglian Water region.
Geographically the region stretches from Grimsby in the north, Daventry in the west, Basildon in the south and Norwich in the east.
The initial GI Framework term will be 5 years with the option to extend for a further 3 years.
Any dates, estimate or other information referenced within this notice are to be considered indicative and will be confirmed at the start of the procurement phase by means of a Tender Notice (UK4) which will contain links to the Framework Scope and procurement documentation.
This documentation will be available via our e-sourcing tool SAP Ariba; and a link will be provided upon publication of the Tender Notice (UK4).
If you have any questions prior to publication of the Tender Notice (UK4) or wish to express an interest you may do so by contacting myself, Siobhan Weatherall, AWS Procurement Specialist at [email protected]
or Georgia Green, AWS Senior Procurement Specialist at [email protected]
We will endeavour to respond within 3 working days from receipt of your email.
The Framework Scope will consist of 5 Lots:
- Lot 1 - GI Works (contracts over £100k)
- Lot 2 - GI Services (contracts over £100k)
- Lot 3 - GI Works (contracts below £100k)
- Lot 4 - GI Services (contracts below £100k)
- Lot 5 - Ground Water Investigation Works and Services (contracts typically below £100k)
The Framework Scope will consist of the following Works and Services across all 5 Lots.
Works (Contractor):
- Drilling, Boring, Pits and Trenching
- Sampling/ Monitoring
- Field Testing
- Geophysical Testing
- Instrumentation
- Installation Monitoring and Sampling
- Reinstatement
- Daily Records
- Surveying
- In situ testing
- On site monitoring
- Lab testing (during works supervision)
- Reporting
Services (Consultant):
- Scoping
- Works Supervision
- Lab Testing (after works supervision or survey)
- Reporting
- Design
The intended contract pipeline for the GI Framework (subject to change) includes GI Works and Services for:
Major Infrastructure pre-construction sites:
- 2 Reservoir sites, one in the Fens and one in Lincolnshire
- 4 Desalination plants;
- An Advanced Water Recycling Centre in Colchester; and the
- Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA); a large scale interconnecting pipeline from North Lincolnshire to Essex;
- Business as usual requirements at groundwater borehole drilling investigation sites;
- Smaller scale construction projects throughout the region delivered by our 8 capital Alliance strategic partners.
Estimated spend for the potential eight year duration of the Framework Term is£35,445,420 excluding VAT
The contracting model will be a bespoke Anglian Water Services Framework Agreement with provision for individual NEC4 ECC/ECSC and PSC/PSSC call off arrangements or purchase orders for lower value works.
The work allocation mechanisms are expected to include mini competition and direct award options, depending on a number of factors; including (but not limited to) value, risk and delivery capacity.
Full details will be provided in the Tender Notice and accompanying Tender documentation when this is released.
Anglian Water may run a market engagement exercise.
If this exercise is ran further details will be provided in due course by means of a Preliminary Market Engagement Notice.
- How the procedure runs: We reserve the right to negotiate, refine award criteria and shortlist during this process. Full details of the procurement process will be detailed in the Tender Notice UK4.
CPV: Drilling and exploration work · Engineering-related scientific and technical services · Excavation work at archaeological sites · Foundation work and water-well drilling · Geotechnical engineering services · Test drilling and boring work · Trench-digging work
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 5 yrs · up to 8 yrs from 6 Jan 2027
Lots and requirements (5)Procurement structure
5 lots · all with a published valueLot #1Ground Investigation Works (contracts over 100k)PlannedRenewalPublished value£15,783,750
GI Works activities with a call off contract value of over £100k within the Anglian Water region.
Scope of Works under Lot 1 will include our Major Infrastructure projects namely the Fens and Lincs Reservoirs, 4 Desalination plants and an Advanced Water Recycling Centre.
Suppliers may be required to provide collateral warranties and transferable guarantees for scope of works undertaken on these projects.
Form of contract will be NEC4 ECC/ECSC and PSC/PSSC.
Lot #2Ground Investigation Services (contracts over 100k)PlannedRenewalPublished value£5,261,250
GI Services activities with a call off contract value of over £100k within the Anglian Water region.
Scope of Services under Lot 2 will include our Major Infrastructure projects namely the Fens and Lincs Reservoirs, 4 Desalination plants and an Advanced Water Recycling Centre.
Suppliers may be required to provide collateral warranties and transferable guarantees for scope of works undertaken on these projects.
Form of contract will be NEC4 ECC/ECSC and PSC/PSSC.
Lot #3Ground Investigation Works (contracts below 100k)PlannedRenewalPublished value£6,164,100
GI Works activities with a typical estimated value of less than £100k per call off contract where collateral warranties and transferable guarantees are not expected to be required and on this basis may be suitable for Small to Medium sized or Micro Entities.
Scope of Works under Lot 3 are expected to be for our smaller scale construction projects throughout the region delivered by our 8 capital Alliance strategic partners.
Form of contract will be NEC4 ECC/ECSC and PSC/PSSC; or purchase order.
Lot #4Ground Investigation Services (contracts below 100k)PlannedRenewalPublished value£1,541,000
GI Services with a typical estimated value of less than £100k per call off contract where collateral warranties and transferable guarantees are not expected to be required and on this basis may be suitable for Small to Medium sized or Micro Entities.
Scope of Services under Lot 4 are expected to be for our smaller scale construction projects throughout the region delivered by our 8 capital Alliance strategic partners.
Form of contract will be NEC4 ECC/ECSC and PSC/PSSC; or purchase order.
Lot #5Groundwater Investigation Works and ServicesPlannedRenewalPublished value£787,750
Lot 5 Groundwater Investigation Works and Services
Groundwater Investigation Works and Services with a typical estimated value of less than £100k per call off contract where collateral warranties and transferable guarantees are not expected to be required and on this basis may be suitable for Small to Medium sized or Micro Entities.
Shortlisting criteria to be shared at Tender Notice publication will enable a supplier to decide on their participation.
Form of contract will be NEC4 ECC/ECSC and PSC/PSSC; or purchase order.
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- “Ground Investigation” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Anglian Water Services buys Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511), and who usually turns up
Anglian Water Services’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511) →
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Half of these awards have an award date within 157 days of the bid deadline.
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Lot #1Ground Investigation Works (contracts over 100k)CPV 4511Published estimate£16m
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Lot #2Ground Investigation Services (contracts over 100k)CPV 4511Published estimate£5.3m
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Lot #3Ground Investigation Works (contracts below 100k)CPV 4511Published estimate£6.2m
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Lot #4Ground Investigation Services (contracts below 100k)CPV 4511Published estimate£1.5m
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Lot #5Groundwater Investigation Works and ServicesCPV 45Published estimate£788k
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 1 Jul 2026, 18:20 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Jul 2026, 16:18 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 18 Dec 2026
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-062966- Accelerated
- Qualifying planned procurement notice
- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c1ccFind a Tender- Contract terms summary
Will be shared at publication of the tender documents
- How it runs
We reserve the right to negotiate, refine award criteria and shortlist during this process. Full details of the procurement process will be detailed in the Tender Notice UK4.
- Risks
Will be shared at publication of the tender documents
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 1 Sept 2026, 22:00 BST
- Appointment period ends
- 1 Sept 2026, 22:00 BST
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
1 Jul 2026 → 6 Jan 2027 · 6 dates- Planning notice published116 days ago1 Jul 2026, 18:20 BST
- Latest notice published114 days ago3 Jul 2026, 16:18 BST
- Tender notice expected74 days ago12 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Admission / appointment period ends54 days ago · period end, not a bid countdown1 Sept 2026, 22:00 BST
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Award decision expected byin 54 days18 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 72 days6 Jan 2027
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 1 Jul 2026- Planned procurement notice published1 Jul 2026, 18:20 BSTUK3
- Planned procurement notice published3 Jul 2026, 16:18 BSTUK3
Published amendments (1)
This notice has been amended to allow potential interested parties to allow sufficient time to participate in the Request for Information
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- 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
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender