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Legal Support for 'Western Area' Programme

Legal services
UK
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
Generated from official OCDS record
Tenderline Synopsis: Southern Water Services Ltd.: "Legal Support for 'Western Area' Programme". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthoritySouthern Water Services Ltd.Scope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Southern Water Services Ltd.
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Published history for Southern Water Services Ltd.. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
7.4Bids / Report
2% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 206 active published awards; 201 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthoritySouthern Water Services Ltd.
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published3 Mar 2022, 22:45 GMT
Last source update3 Mar 2022, 22:45 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationLegal services
Delivery area
UK
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-031dd7
What is being bought
Southern Water requires legal support in respect of its Western Area Strategic Water Resources Infrastructure, Planning and Development Programme (Western Area Programme), primarily in relation to obtaining consents (planning, consenting, environmental constraints, permitting, and other environmental regulatory considerations) for new infrastructure for the delivery of additional water resources in its Western Area Water Resource Zones (WRZ).
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    3 Mar 2022, 22:45 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    3 Mar 2022, 22:45 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    3 Mar 2022, 22:45 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    Legal Services
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    3 Mar 2022, 22:45 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 10 Apr 2020, 00:00 BST · £500,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Pinsent Masons LLP
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Legal Support for 'Western Area' Programme
£500,000 · signed 10 Apr 2020, 00:00 BST · active
Bid statistics
bids: 5 (lot 1)
electronicBids: 5 (lot 1)
foreignBidsFromEU: 1 (lot 1)
foreignBidsFromNonEU: 1 (lot 1)
smeBids: 1 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Southern Water Services Ltd.

Contracting authority GB-FTS-446
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Documents (0)
Official links; attachments are not copied
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No linked documents are published
Related procedures (0)
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No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleThe basic project was the engagement of external legal services (Pinsent Masons) to support Gate 1 activities (As per the spec in the RFP) which was procured in accordance with Reg. 44 and Regs. 16(1)(c) & 90 as a below threshold ‘light touch’ contract for services.