Official UK procurement notice
PRO005187-Services-Contract-Interruption to Supply Event Management
Authority: United Utilities Water Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionUnited Utilities is undertaking preliminary market engagement in relation to a potential future procurement for a Decision Workspace solution to support the management of Interruption to Supply events.
The purpose of this engagement is to improve United Utilities' understanding of the available market, solution capabilities, implementation approaches, integration requirements and commercial models. Information gathered may be used to inform the development of the business requirements, procurement strategy, specification and route to market.
Interested suppliers are invited to express their interest by contacting the nominated United Utilities contact identified in this notice. Upon request, suppliers will be provided with the Preliminary Market Engagement pack, comprising an Expression of Interest (EOI) cover letter, checklist and questionnaire.
Suppliers should complete and return the requested information in accordance with the instructions contained within the engagement pack. Completed responses should be submitted to the United Utilities contact identified within the documentation by the stated deadline.
Participation in this market engagement is voluntary and will not confer any advantage or disadvantage in any subsequent procurement process. This notice is not a call for competition, does not constitute the commencement of a procurement procedure and does not commit United Utilities to undertake any future procurement or award any contract.
United Utilities reserves the right to amend its requirements, procurement strategy, timetable and approach following completion of the market engagement activity.
CPV: Software configuration services · Software implementation services · Software supply services · System and support services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How United Utilities Water Limited buys Software-related services (CPV 7226), and who usually turns up
United Utilities Water 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: Software-related services (CPV 7226) →
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.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
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 North West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside North West 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 89 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 bid27%
2–330%
4–621%
7+22%
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 estimate57%
Within ±2%25%
Above estimate18%
Assess each lot i
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 #1CPV 7226Estimate not published
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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 47 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid9%
2–328%
4–621%
7+43%
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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
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 Oct 2026, 11:00 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Oct 2026, 11:00 BST
- Authority reference
PRO005187- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-099347- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078c8eFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 Oct 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice publishedearlier today21 Oct 2026, 11:00 BST
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 23 days13 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
United Utilities is undertaking preliminary market engagement in relation to a potential future procurement for a Decision Workspace solution to support the management of Interruption to Supply events.
The purpose of this engagement is to improve United Utilities' understanding of the available market, solution capabilities, implementation approaches, integration requirements and commercial models. Information gathered may be used to inform the development of the business requirements, procurement strategy, specification and route to market.
Interested suppliers are invited to review the Preliminary Market Engagement documentation and submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) in accordance with the instructions provided. Suppliers may also submit clarification questions during the engagement period.
Participation in this market engagement is voluntary and will not confer any advantage or disadvantage in any subsequent procurement process. This notice is not a call for competition, does not constitute the commencement of a procurement procedure and does not commit United Utilities to undertake any future procurement or award any contract.
United Utilities reserves the right to amend its requirements, procurement strategy, timetable and approach following completion of the market engagement activity.
- Contract startsin 252 days1 Jul 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Oct 2026, 11:00 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender