Official UK procurement notice
SAP Annual Support and Maintenance Renewal
Authority: United Utilities Water Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDirect Award of SAP Annual Support and Maintenance Renewal
This Contract Award Notice is issued in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023 to inform the market of the contracting authority's intention to renew its annual SAP support and maintenance contract for it's existing SAP estate.
The authority currently relies on SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) platform as a core business-critical system. Continued SAP support and maintenance is required to secure uninterrupted support of critical business systems.
The authority has a 12 month renewal option, this notice reflects the renewal for the next 12-month period.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 8 Dec 2025, 17:53 GMT
- Last source update
- 8 Dec 2025, 18:09 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-080826- Latest notice
- Contract award notice (UK6)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f13dFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Additional Repeat Extension Partial Replacement
- Published justification
For the reasons detailed above, United Utilities intends to renew its SAP Support and Maintenance on the following basis:
The public contract concerns the supply of goods, services or works by the existing supplier, which are intended as an extension to or partial replacement of existing goods, services or works in circumstances where
a) a change in supplier would result in the contracting authority receiving goods, services or works that are different from or incompatible with the existing goods services or works; and
b) the difference or incompatibility would result in disproportionate technical difficulties in operation or maintenance.
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 8 Dec 2025- Transparency notice published8 Dec 2025, 17:53 GMTUK5
- Contract award notice published8 Dec 2025, 18:09 GMTUK6
- Contract signature expected1 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAP (UK) LIMITEDSAP Annual Renewal1 Jan 2026 – 31 Dec 2026 · up to 31 Dec 2027Extensions: The authority is exercising a 12 month extension permitted under the renewal provisions in the original contract. The extension may be used to further renew SAP Support and Maintenance beyond the current period 1st January 2026 to 31st December 2026. | £2,286,398 | 4 Dec 2005 | Awarded |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- SAP (UK) LIMITEDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender