Official UK procurement notice
Network and Connectivity Market Engagement
Authority: Anglian Water Services (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionMarket engagement for Network and Connectivity requirement, as per the below.
Underlay Connectivity Services :
Underlay Connectivity Services provide the carrier-based transport and access infrastructure that underpins Anglian Water's network estate. These services enable connectivity between sites, users, cloud platforms and operational environments, supporting the reliable delivery of business and operational services across both IT and OT domains. Solutions should be capable of meeting evolving capacity, resilience and performance requirements over the term of the contract.
Including but not limited to:
. Private WAN Connectivity Services
. Internet Connectivity Services
. Corporate Mobile Connectivity Services
. Cloud Connectivity Services
. Satellite Connectivity Services
. Voice Connectivity Services
OT Mobile Connectivity Services :
OT Mobile Connectivity Services provide the managed cellular connectivity required to support Anglian Water's Operational Technology estate. Services are expected to provide secure connectivity for operational assets through common private connectivity services, flexible network access arrangements and centralised management capabilities that support the full lifecycle of deployed SIMs and connected assets.
Including but not limited to:
. OT Mobile Connectivity Services (Multi-Network)
. Private Connectivity Services (Private APN or equivalent)
. Connectivity Management Services
. SIM Lifecycle Management Services
Co-Managed Network Services :
Co-Managed Network Platform Services provide the operational, engineering and lifecycle support required to maintain, operate and evolve Anglian Water's network estate and associated network platforms. The service is intended to operate as a collaborative delivery model, combining supplier capabilities with retained internal ownership of strategy, architecture, governance and service management. The scope may include the management of network infrastructure, network platforms, cloud-delivered network services, operational tooling, deployments, maintenance activities and service delivery processes across both IT and Operational Technology environments.
Including but not limited to:
. Network Monitoring and Event Management
. Incident Investigation and Service Restoration
. Change Implementation and Operational Support
. Network Infrastructure Administration
. Network Platform Administration
. Service Reporting and Governance Support
. Hardware Maintenance and Break-Fix Services
. Deployment and Onboarding [Network] Services
. Network Build, Staging and Logistics Services
. Field Engineering and Installation Services
The following services are to be considered out of scope :
. LAN & Wi-Fi assets and management
. Firewall assets and management
. Cloud based security services, licencing and management
. Contact Centre services and management
CPV: Computer network services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Anglian Water Services buys Computer network services (CPV 7270), and who usually turns up
Anglian Water Services’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Computer network services (CPV 7270) →
How the contest usually goes
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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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in East of England (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 51 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.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0%
2–311%
4–644%
7+44%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate50%
Within ±2%38%
Above estimate13%
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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.
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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 #1CPV 7270Published estimate£10m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 80 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–325%
4–638%
7+30%
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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.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 11 Aug 2026, 16:17 BST
- Last source update
- 12 Aug 2026, 09:11 BST
- Authority reference
2026 (WS3264232975)- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-076490- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e1c6Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Aug 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published77 days ago11 Aug 2026, 16:17 BST
- Market engagement45 days ago12 Sept 2026, 00:59 BST
Please see the guide document within the Ariba event.
One stage - Market Engagement
Question Deadline - 28th August 2026
Submission Deadline - 11th September 2026
Please see below event link ;
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 155 days1 Apr 2027
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 11 Aug 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Aug 2026, 16:17 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 Aug 2026, 09:11 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Event link now included ; https://eu.mu.ariba.com/uav/project/?token=dcd36fdc-2f25-4cd9-ad1e-72cf81252c54
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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender