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# NW3168 - Project Risk Tool

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nw3168-project-risk-tool-ocds-h6vhtk-06acc1). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NORTHUMBRIAN WATER LIMITED: "NW3168 - Project Risk Tool". Published status: active. Published Value: £2,500,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 22 Jun 2026, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: s1.ariba.com).

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [NORTHUMBRIAN WATER LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/northumbrian-water-limited-coh-02366703)
- **Published Value:** £2,500,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 22 June 2026 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Competitive flexible procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support, Software package and information systems
- **Delivery Location:** UKC2, UKH14, UKH3
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 6 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nw3168-project-risk-tool-ocds-h6vhtk-06acc1#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-06acc1`

## Before you bid
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- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nw3168-project-risk-tool-ocds-h6vhtk-06acc1#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [s1.ariba.com)](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs1.ariba.com))
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nw3168-project-risk-tool-ocds-h6vhtk-06acc1#participate

## Description
NW3168 - Project Risk Tool
Northumbrian Water Limited (NWL) provide water and sewerage services to just under 4.4 million people operating principally in the North-East of England, Essex, and Suffolk. It is NWL's vision 'to be the most digital water company in the world'. Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) is a large and diverse organisation which employs a varied set of processes to achieve its business outcomes. Our organisation is entering a period of increasing scale and complexity, and our current Excel‑based approach creates challenges with consistency, auditability, quantitative analysis, and real‑time visibility. To address these issues, NWL intends to procure a centralised Risk Management Tool that reflects our business, functional and non‑functional requirements.
Our ambition is to embed a consistent minimum standard for risk and opportunity management across all levels of the organisation, while maintaining flexibility to support differing risk types, project complexities and operational environments. The new solution must allow NWL to manage risk at project, programme, and portfolio level with configurable hierarchies, strong governance controls, audit trails, validation rules, automated workflows, and clear ownership and accountability.
The tool must support qualitative and quantitative analysis, including interaction with Monte‑Carlo simulation to enable QSRA/QCRA, ensuring NWL can reduce reliance on external consultants and improve the agility of in‑house modelling. It must also support configurable scoring, heatmaps, pre‑ and post‑mitigation views, dependencies, assumptions, exclusions, and risk and opportunity management across all levels of hierarchy.
As the solution will be used by a wide and diverse user base, it must provide an intuitive, user‑friendly interface that can be easily navigated and adopted, with accessibility‑aligned design, strong searchability, a training/sandpit area, and clear help and guidance materials. It must also support controlled access for external users (e.g., contractors) and role‑based permissions to ensure secure collaboration.
To meet NWL's operational and digital integration expectations, the system must offer open API‑based links to corporate platforms including (but not limited to) O365/Power BI, Active Directory, Oracle Fusion, and other related systems. Bulk uploads, automated data exchange, scheduling of tasks, notifications, escalations, and workflow automation are essential to improving efficiency and reducing manual effort across risk management activities.
The solution must be scalable to support 1,000 active projects, with capacity for at least 500 risks per project and a minimum of 500 concurrent users, ensuring sustainability as NWL grows. Auditability, resilience, data retention, lifecycle management, and the ability to retain historical risk information for lessons learned and long‑term organisational insight are critical requirements.
Suppliers should be able to demonstrate strong hie...
> [Read full procurement scope and specification on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nw3168-project-risk-tool-ocds-h6vhtk-06acc1)

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 48000000, 72000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKC, UKH
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £2,500,000

- **Contract Period:** 01/12/2026 to 30/11/2031
- **Renewal published:** yes
- **Options published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F052475-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-06-04T13:59:16.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T06:30:53.517Z
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