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Published 18 Sept 2026, 15:29 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Insight Report Pilot Studies

Authority: The Water Services Regulation Authority (Central government)

Below threshold - without competition
Awarded value £16,474published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 11 Sept 2026no call for competition
Awarded to Diem Analytics Limited

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Deliver an initial pilot to demonstrate how lessons learnt, experience and tacit knowledge from a small number of highly experienced Ofwat staff can be captured, structured and made available for use by other Ofwat staff.

The scope shall include:

Interview framework and question sets

• Develop and configure five sets of adaptive interview questions within the DUCHESS system.

• Review and refine the question sets progressively based on the findings from each interview phase.

Interviews

• Support up to four Ofwat interviewees.

• Conduct up to five interviews per interviewee, resulting in a maximum of 20 interviews.

• Interviews will progressively explore career experience, critical experiences, tacit knowledge, patterns and indicators, case studies, decision-making and key lessons that should be transferred to others.

Interview analysis

• Analyse individual interview outputs.

• Identify lessons, experience and knowledge areas from each interview.

• Refine subsequent interview questions based on the findings from earlier interviews.

Experience library development

• Analyse the overall interview corpus.

• Develop structured experience cards and an initial Ofwat Experience Library.

• Identify cross-interview and cross-theme organisational knowledge and lessons.

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Demonstration of exploitation

• Demonstrate how Ofwat staff could use the Experience Library, including through Copilot, to identify relevant previous experiences, approaches, lessons, warnings and options when considering a current problem or situation.

Deliverables are:

• Interview question sets - Five configured interview question sets within DUCHESS, refined during delivery based on interview findings.

• Interview evidence - Transcripts from up to 20 interviews, provided in an agreed format such as PDF, Word or Excel.

• Lessons list - A consolidated list of the knowledge and experience areas identified from each interview, together with the associated lessons.

• Experience cards - Structured cards capturing, as applicable: situation, problem, context, warning signs/cues, experienced approach, action, why it worked, lesson learnt, rule of thumb, conditions/limitations, source and thematic tags.

• Ofwat Experience Library - An Excel-based experience matrix containing the lessons list, individual experience cards and organisational knowledge cards covering cross-interview and cross-theme lessons.

• Exploitation Guide - A presentation, including screenshots or video as appropriate, demonstrating how Ofwat staff can interrogate and use the Experience Library, including through Copilot.

• Pilot Report - A Word report comprising an executive summary and detailed sections covering the introduction, approach, findings, conclusions and recommendations, together with supporting annexes.

• Final pilot recommendations - Recommendations arising from the pilot on the effectiveness of the approach, potential improvements and considerations for any future development or wider implementation.

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Lot 1Awarded
Delivery: North East, North West, Yorkshire & Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West
72200000 Software programming and consultancy services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Below threshold - without competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Notice status
Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Direct award — no call for competition
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
18 Sept 2026, 15:29 BST
Last source update
18 Sept 2026, 15:29 BST
Authority reference
PROC.0299
Latest notice
Contract details notice (UK7)
Delivery area
North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)London (UKI)South East (UKJ)+1 more
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0775af

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics — not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £16,4741 contract exc. VAT
Contracts signed 1latest 11 Sept 2026
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Diem Analytics LimitedSMEAwarded

Contracts

  • Contract 1 · Diem Analytics LimitedSME

    Signed
    11 Sept 2026
    Value
    £16,474
    Period
    11 Sept 2026 — 31 Jan 2027 · up to 31 Mar 2027 with extensions
    Status
    active
    Extensions
    Description of possible extension: The Customer reserves the right to extend [or modify] the Agreement by contract duration and/or contract cap up to an additional 50% of the original value under the conditions set out in Regulations 74(1)(c) and 74(4)(b) (meaning of 'below-threshold modification') of the Procurement Act 2023. Estimated extension end date provided but may not be taken up.
    Options
    Optional extension is provided for but may not necessarily be taken up. Potential options are but not guaranteed are: (a) Increase support for additional Ofwat interviewees. (b) Conduct up to [five] interviews per interviewee.

Notice history

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Contracting authority & participating public bodies

The Water Services Regulation Authority

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PPCX-7855-VXBT Ofwat, Centre City Tower, 7 Hill Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B5 4UA [email protected]
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Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications (1)

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