Official UK procurement notice
Insight Report Pilot Studies
Authority: The Water Services Regulation Authority (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDeliver 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 publishedLot #1Lot 1Awarded
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
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0775af
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics — not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diem Analytics LimitedSME | — | — | Awarded |
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
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Contract details notice published18 Sept 2026, 15:29 BSTUK7
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Diem Analytics LimitedAwarded supplierView supplier profile →
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender