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Prj_8061 Student Placements RFI

Recruitment services
Supply services of personnel including temporary staff
Published value
£500,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Southern Water Services Limited: "Prj_8061 Student Placements RFI". Published status: planning. Published value: £500,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthoritySouthern Water Services LimitedScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£500,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Southern Water Services Limited
Market Analytics
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Southern Water Services Limited. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
Not availableNo published reports
Bid counts are not published for this buyer
Supplier ConcentrationModerate Concentration
FERA Science LtdTop vendor: 27.3% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 14 active published awards; 0 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. Price reduction 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
FERA Science Ltd1 win£2,018,550
Wild Capital 1 Ltd1 win£1,715,211
University of Portsmouth1 win£1,028,846
PBJ ENGINEERING SERVICE LTD1 win£873,600
EA Technology Ltd1 win£782,980
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthoritySouthern Water Services Limited
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published14 Jan 2026, 09:23 GMT
Last source update14 Jan 2026, 09:23 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationRecruitment services, Supply services of personnel including temporary staff
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-060548
What is being bought
SW looks to support student placements as part of our Early Careers offering. These student placements provide potential feeder pipelines into our Graduate programmes. Over the last 2 years SW has facilitated around 10-15 students per calendar year to utilise a placement within our business. We look to build both volume, quality and sustainability of our Early Careers programmes going forward. Delivery of our student placement opportunities by a procured provider helps support our Early Careers strategy through AMP8.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    14 Jan 2026, 09:23 GMT
  2. Published value updated to £500,000
    14 Jan 2026, 09:16 GMT
  3. Status changed to planning
    14 Jan 2026, 09:16 GMT
  4. Official notice release published
    14 Jan 2026, 09:16 GMT
  5. Buyer information updated
    14 Jan 2026, 09:16 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    14 Jan 2026, 09:23 GMT
  2. Procedure published
    14 Jan 2026, 09:23 GMT
  3. engagement
    28 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT · scheduled
    This is NOT a call for competition SW looks to support student placements as part of our Early Careers offering. These student placements provide potential feeder pipelines into our Graduate programmes. Over the last 2 years SW has facilitated around 10-15 students per calendar year to utilise a placement within our business. We look to build both volume, quality and sustainability of our Early Careers programmes going forward. Delivery of our student placement opportunities by a procured provider helps support our Early Careers strategy through AMP8. Terms & Conditions of the RFI The purpose of this Request for Information is to gather information and insights regarding Student Placement Services, SWS wishes to tender for this service in future and are seeking market information that will help shape the tender activity and route to market, in relation to but not limited: Market structure and your organization’s place within it End-to-end of defined activities, training, operating model, Types of roles covered Any questions related this RFI must be conducted via the Jaggaer Sourcing portal only. This RFI is exploratory; no contract will be awarded based solely on responses. The issuer reserves the right to amend timelines, seek clarifications, and not proceed to a competitive tender. Costs incurred in responding are the supplier’s responsibility. Confidential information should be clearly marked; data will be handled per issuer policy. This is not a call for competition. This Request for Information engagement will be conducted on the Jaggaer e-procurement portal at: https://southernwater.bravosolution.co.uk/ between 14/01/2026 and 28/01/26 We have provided as much information as we can provide at this stage, but should you require any additional information, clarification questions can be raised via the Jaggaer sourcing portal messaging service from 14/01/26 to 21/01/26 at 15:00. All answers and queries related to this Request for Information should be directed to SWS via the e-sourcing portal by following the link provided.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Southern Water Services Limited

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PBJQ-2231-ZRPG
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Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
No data
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published