Official UK procurement notice
Market Engagement - Hampshire Water Transfer and Water Recycling Project (Phase 3)
Authority: Southern Water Services Limited (Public body)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionFor the avoidance of doubt, the purpose of the Periodic Indicative Notice is to conduct a market testing exercise only and act as a Request for Information. This does not formally begin the procurement nor constitute any commitment by Southern Water to undertake any procurement exercise nor form a commercial strategy in a particular form. Any follow-up discussions are solely for information and planning purposes. Southern Water is not liable for any costs, fees or expenses incurred by any party in replying to, participating in, or attending any event in response to the Periodic Indicative Notice. All costs associated with responding to this pre-market consultation will be solely at the interested party's expense. Southern Water is reserving its position as to whether or not to undertake a procurement.
Market Engagement - This is Phase 3 of an ongoing Market Engagement exercise. Southern Water is planning to deliver an industry-leading construction project to provide and future-proof long-term water supply resilience to our region. The project will include tunnelling.
Southern Water will utilise a Competitively Appointed Provider to deliver the Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Maintain project. The project is to be procured using Ofwat’s new Direct Procurement for Customers approach.
We have released two previous indicative notices:
- An initial Periodic Indicative Notice (2022/S 000-003206) was published in February 2022, inviting market views and setting out our proposed procurement and commercial approach.
- A second PIN (2022/S 000-031175) was published in November 2022, further inviting the markets views.
Southern Water are keen to update the market on progress as the project matures and are looking to test the market's interest in the project.
Engagement and feedback
Southern Water is providing the “Project Information Pack 2024” as part of this market engagement and has developed a list of questions relating to the information provided. Any answers provided to the Request for Information are valuable and will be used, where necessary, to inform and develop Southern Water’s current understanding of the market and how Southern Water can best deliver value for money to our customers. The deadline for responding to the Request for Information is Friday 22nd November 2024.
We are strongly encouraging the market including potential investors and supply chain organisations to attend the attend the one-to-one/bilateral meetings with their potential partnering organisations as this is a follow up to previous engagements, and given our wish to cover commercial, financial and procurement aspects relating to the Design, Build, Finance, Operation and Maintenance of the project.
CPV: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services · Banking and investment services · Construction equipment · Construction management services · Construction project management services · Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus) · Construction work · Construction work for bridges and tunnels, shafts and subways · Construction work for tunnels · Construction work for water and sewage pipelines · Construction work for water projects · Construction-related services · +19 more
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Hampshire Water Transfer and Water Recycling Project is the Strategic Resource…Planned
The Hampshire Water Transfer and Water Recycling Project is the Strategic Resource Option of Southern Waters’ Water for Life Hampshire programme. The project will create a greater water resilience, to support with drought resilience, population growth, climate change, and Environmental protection and improvement. The current preferred route uses Water Recycling and Water Transfer methods which will include an element of tunnelling.
The HWTWRP consists of:
- a Water Recycling Plant, Tunnel & Pipeline between the Water Recycling Plant, and Bedhampton & Havant Springs,
- a High Lift Pumping Station, and
- a Tunnel & Pipeline between the High Lift Pumping Station and Otterbourne Water Supply Works (approx. 42km).
The CPV codes set out in this Periodic Indicative Notice are included to give an indication of the likely scope of works and services. Southern Water does not guarantee that all activities referenced by the CPV codes will form part of any future contract notice(s), nor is the list exhaustive of all activities which may be included in any procurement process under this project.
Under a Direct Procurement for Customers model, Southern Water plan to openly tender for a competitively appointed provider. Southern Water is carrying out several market engagement exercises to support this procurement.
Southern Water would like to gain market insight on a range of topics which are critical to the programme, including but not limited to:
- Fixed Price Plus
- Indexation during Construction
- Indexation during Operations
- Competitively Appointed Provider Revenues
- Payment Mechanism
- Energy Costs
- Lender Specific Questions
Market Engagement will take the form of a Request for Information, followed by a series of virtual bilateral (one-to-one) sessions in November 2024 and early 2025 via Microsoft Teams. There will be opportunities for organisations to ask questions within the Request for Information and bilateral sessions.
Southern Water is using an electronic tendering portal (Jaggaer One) which can be found at:
www.southernwater.bravosolution.co.uk/web/logon.html ↗
If you would like to learn more about the project, respond to the Request for Information and/or request a virtual bilateral meeting slot please register and log onto the portal to download further information on the programme . It is free to register on the portal, which can be accessed at any time of day. Should you have any problems registering on the portal, you should contact BRAVO by Email:
by phone 0800 069 8630
Further Market Engagement phases will be held in 2025. Consequently, suppliers who miss this previous market engagement are nevertheless encouraged to contact Southern Water by emailing [email protected]
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Southern Water Services Limited buys Construction work (CPV 45), and who usually turns up
Southern Water Services Limited’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Construction work (CPV 45) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in South East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside South East England.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 79 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid12%
2–323%
4–629%
7+37%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate44%
Within ±2%27%
Above estimate29%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1The Hampshire Water Transfer and Water Recycling Project is the Strategic Resource…Published estimate£1.3bn
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 311 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–323%
4–629%
7+37%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
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 · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 3 Feb 2022, 22:45 GMT
- Last source update
- 22 Oct 2024, 13:36 BST
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-034148- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-031321Find a Tender
Publisher note: Disclaimer For the avoidance of doubt, the purpose of the Periodic Indicative Notice (PIN) and the associated Request for Information is to conduct a market testing exercise only and will not formally begin the procurement nor constitute any commitment by Southern Water to undertake any procurement exercise. Any follow-up discussions are solely for information and planning purposes. Southern Water is not liable for any costs, fees or expenses incurred by any party in replying to, participating in or attending any event in response to this Periodic Indicative Notice; all costs associated with responding to this pre-market consultation will be solely at the interested party’s expense. Southern Water is reserving its position as to whether or not to undertake a procurement. This exercise does not constitute a call for competition or a promise to issue a tender in the future. The communication and follow-up discussions do not commit Southern Water to contract for any supply or service whatsoever. Not responding to this pre-market consultation does not preclude participation in any future event, if any is undertaken. Notes will be taken during any discussions, and Southern Water reserves the right to share a general, anonymised summary of any feedback received to help with developing our plans. We may issue additional Requests for Information, and organise further supplier engagement events, and/or engage in additional dialogue with potential suppliers as we continue to develop our plans. We may also issue further Periodic Indicative Notices to launch further formal market engagement / consultation processes prior to formally issuing any Tender. After we have received Request for Information responses we may undertake additional market engagement dialogue with potential suppliers on specific issues. We may then use this information to decide on various aspects of how we’ll undertake the Direct Procurement for Customers tendering process. Any dates are subject to change. Please note, the material being supplied represents Southern Water’s current thinking and is being shared in order to gather feedback. It is subject to change.
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://southernwater.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html ↗
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
22 Oct 2024 → 30 Sept 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published22 Oct 2024, 13:36 BST
- Tender notice expected23 days ago30 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 4 Nov 2022- Published value updated to £587,000,0004 Nov 2022, 09:36 GMTwas £459,000,000
- Published value updated to £1,300,000,00022 Oct 2024, 13:36 BSTwas £587,000,000
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
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Southern Water Services Ltd.Contracting authorityCentral purchasing bodyWater
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.