Official UK procurement notice
Safe Water Projects · UK public procurement notice
Authority: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLSHTM / SCIF has an ongoing requirement for support in developing, delivering and monitoring safe water projects in East Africa. Safe Water Projects - To provide safe clean water to communities bringing defunct boreholes back into use within an ongoing management regime involving local stakeholders, developing production wells, rainwater harvesting, water filtration systems, water catchment protection and other related nature-based climate mitigation and adaptation measures. In addition, providing education and increasing awareness of how best to use and maintain the water sources, to drive hygiene and sanitation behavioral change in the local communities, with young people and in schools. This includes capacity building and providing socio-economic opportunities for communities and other beneficiaries of the SCIF infrastructure. All projects carried out must be scoped and co-created through on-going community engagement and effective outreach activities (e.g. Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) promotion, behavioral change campaigns, community training and mobilization). The projects will be undertaken in the East Africa block i.e. Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia.
- No preliminary market engagement: No preliminary market engagement notice was required as no suppliers had been contacted specifically regarding this requirement prior to the notice.
CPV: Community action programme · Drinking-water distribution · Water distribution and related services · Water-well drilling
How this framework works
From the published notice- Type
- Closed framework
- Call-offs
- call-offs are awarded directly to appointed suppliers, without further competition
- Places
- up to 1 suppliers · 1 bids received (1.0 per place) · 1 appointed (full)
- Framework period
- 4 yrs from 26 Jan 2026
Published description of the framework
Management and other standard fees to carry out projects to be agreed as part of tender process.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedPublished value£3,000,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Technical Criteria: 80%
- Commercial: 20%
Published award criteria (2)
- Technical Criteria: Further information provided on ITT documents
- Commercial: Further information provided on ITT documents
- Price carries 20 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 2 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- “Safe Water Projects” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 1 suppliers, not a single contract, and call-offs are awarded directly: getting appointed is the whole game.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 1 Dec 2025, 11:00 GMT
- Last source update
- 14 Apr 2026, 15:01 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 19 Jan 2026
- Authority reference
LSHTM-2025-082- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-078401- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05ebbfFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 12 Jan 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 15 Dec 2025, 13:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
1 Dec 2025 → 14 Apr 2026 · 8 dates- Tender notice published323 days ago1 Dec 2025, 11:00 GMT
- Clarification questions by309 days ago15 Dec 2025, 13:00 GMT
- Admission / appointment period ends281 days ago · period end, not a bid countdown12 Jan 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Award decision expected by273 days ago19 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Assessment summaries sent273 days ago20 Jan 2026
- Contract starts267 days ago26 Jan 2026
- Standstill ends263 days ago29 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Latest notice published189 days ago14 Apr 2026, 15:01 BST
Notice history
5 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 1 Dec 2025- Tender notice published1 Dec 2025, 11:00 GMTUK4
- Contract award notice published20 Jan 2026, 16:00 GMTUK6
- Status changed to complete20 Jan 2026, 16:00 GMT
- Contract signature expected2 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMTscheduled
- Contract details notice published14 Apr 2026, 15:01 BSTUK7
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| WaterAid2 Feb 2026 – 31 Jan 2030 | £3,000,000 | 20 Jan 2026 | Awarded |
Contracts
Safe Water Projects · WaterAid
- Signed
- 13 Apr 2026
- Value
- £3,000,000
- Period
- 14 Apr 2026 – 31 Mar 2030
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1final-stage tenders · 3 at stage one | 0 | 0 | — |
Who bid
- wonWateraid · Greater London
Bidders as named on the Procurement Act 2023 award notice. “Won” means the bidder holds an award on this notice.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- WaterAidFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender