Official UK procurement notice
Low Code No Code Platform
Authority: THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThames Water is seeking to complete a tender to select and implement a modern Enterprise Low-Code/No-Code (LCNC) Platform to accelerate digital transformation, enable business-led innovation, and modernise how applications, workflows, automations, and business solutions are developed and managed across the organisation.
The opportunity lies in selecting an LCNC platform that will:
Enable Enterprise-Wide Innovation:
Provide a secure and scalable platform that enables business users and IT teams to collaboratively develop applications, automate processes, create digital solutions, and drive continuous improvement across the organisation.
Improve Operational Efficiency:
Reduce manual effort through workflow automation, business process orchestration, robotic process automation (RPA), AI-assisted development, and reusable components that accelerate solution delivery.
Strengthen Governance and Security:
Embed enterprise-grade governance, security controls, auditability, environment management, role-based access controls, and integration with existing identity and access management solutions to ensure compliance with Thames Water's regulatory and security requirements.
Support Scalable Application Development:
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Enable the rapid development, deployment, and lifecycle management of applications ranging from simple departmental solutions to business-critical enterprise applications, while maintaining platform stability, performance, and supportability.
Facilitate Integration Across the Enterprise:
Provide seamless integration capabilities with existing Thames Water systems, including SAP, Microsoft 365, Azure, Salesforce, operational technologies, data platforms, and third-party applications through APIs, connectors, and integration services.
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 23 October 2026 at 12:00pm.
- How the procedure runs: PSQ followed by ITN, shortlisting further based on written submissions to presentations and award.
CPV: Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished value£1,000,000
- Value
- £1,000,000 exc. VAT · £1,200,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- Thames Water envisages that the contract will be awarded for an initial term of 4 years with options to extend in whole or in part annually, up to a maximum overall term of 8 years.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (3)
- Technical — 35%
- Presentations — 35%
- Commercial — 30%
- Technical & professional abilityISO 27001
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48) — and who usually turns up
THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED’s own published record, next to the Greater London market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED
contract notices in 36 months: 5 in division 48 (1 route not published) · 37 in all categories (8 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no bid reports published.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no bid reports published.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 1 pairs. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 6 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 62 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 48), last 36 months: 4 notices.
Greater London · Software package and information systems (CPV 48)
contract notices delivered in Greater London in 36 months: 471 in division 48 (199 competed, 140 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 48), last 36 months: 96 lots. 41 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 55 from older notices (bids received, middle 4).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 48), last 36 months: 96 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 48), last 36 months: 44 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 48), last 36 months: 47 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 48), last 36 months: 53 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 48), last 36 months: 199 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on the Greater London market’s usual movement over 44 lots (division 48), applied to the £1,000,000 estimate on this notice. The range comes from the region’s middle half.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Open for expressions of interest
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 24 Sept 2026, 12:26 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Sept 2026, 12:26 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 1 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
TC2538- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07796aFind a Tender
- How it runs
- PSQ followed by ITN, shortlisting further based on written submissions to presentations and award.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via portal- Expression of interest (EOI)
- 23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Tender submission deadline
- 23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 6 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
6 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today24 Sept 2026, 12:26 BST
- Clarification questions byin 12 days6 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Expressions of interest byin 29 days23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 29 days23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Contract startsin 129 days1 Feb 2027, 00:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 130 days1 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published24 Sept 2026, 12:26 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender