Official UK procurement notice
Southern Water AMP 8 Professional Services Framework
Authority: Southern Water Services Limited (Public body)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought3 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionSouthern Water Services (SWS) is anticipating that AMP8 will be the largest
investment programme it has ever undertaken, given its plans for WINEP and
WRMP, and the service it is seeking to deliver for customers.
SWS is also developing new approaches to how it manages and maintains its
clean and wastewater networks, and how it successfully implements new
technology and innovation within its construction, operations and
maintenance activities to deliver its vision and ambition.
To support this process, SWS is seeking to appoint Professional Services
providers to assist in developing its strategies and plans, but also to
accelerate the development of SWS’s internal capability in the areas of Asset
Management and Programme Management in particular. A collaborative
framework will be established with a number of professional services
providers.
CPV: Consultative engineering and construction services · Consulting services for water-supply and waste consultancy · Project management consultancy services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 9 suppliers · 9 bids on the busiest of 3 lots (1.0 per place) · 8 appointed
Lots and requirements (3)Procurement structure
3 lots · all with a published value · win at most 3 of them · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1Professional services - Asset Management Support ServicesAwardedRenewal South EastPublished value£80,000,000
Provision of Asset Management Support Services
Overview
Southern Water Services (SWS) is anticipating that AMP8 will be the largest investment programme it has ever undertaken, given its plans for WINEP and WRMP, and the service it is seeking to deliver for customers.
SWS is also developing new approaches to how it manages and maintains its clean and wastewater networks, and how it successfully implements new technology and innovation within its construction, operations and maintenance activities to deliver its vision and ambition.
To support this process, SWS is seeking to appoint Professional Services providers to
assist in developing its strategies and plans, but also to accelerate the development of
SWS’s internal capability in the areas of Asset Management and Programme Management in particular.
This framework is anticipated to run for the duration of AMP8, with an option to extend
into AMP9.
Scope of services required
A collaborative framework will be established with a number of professional services
providers, providing support in the following areas:
Asset Management support services will include:
(a) Asset Management Strategy and Planning, including:
- Statutory Planning Framework Reporting
- Business Planning (PR29)
- Long-term delivery strategy
- Asset strategies
- Service Measures Framework
- Business and Programme Execution Plans
(b) Asset Information Management
- Asset information strategy
- Data capture and surveys
- Data quality
- Data visualisation and communication
(c) Asset Intelligence
- Better understanding of our assets
- Modelling: hydraulic, coastal, networks, environmental, asset deterioration.
- Water balance
- Geospatial
- Asset risks
- Asset health
(d) Technical Services
- Investment optimisation
- Design
- Cost estimating
- Nature based solution capability
(e) Asset Management System Monitoring
- Audit maturity
- Continually develop systems and processes
- Identify and apply best practice
- Recommendations and support to implement them
Lot #2PMO and Project ManagementAwardedRenewal South EastPublished value£64,000,000
Project and Programme Management support services will include:
- PMO/Programme & Project Management Capability Development, Enhancement &
Change Embedment
- Delivery Portfolio Planning, Programming and Baselining – Including Work
Allocation and delivery tranche formation
- Portfolio Strategic Insight to Project Reporting development and enhancement
- Programme to project Assurance
- Programme to project Governance
- Programme Controls (Centre of Excellence)
- Maturity Assessment and associated management of change across Cost,
Schedule, Risk, Benefits, Dependency and Resource Management as driven by
business priorities and appetite
- Project Controls and Project Manager Training / Capability Development
- Supporting Technology Insight and Enhancements to drive capability and efficiency
(e.g. Cost Management System, Scheduling System)
We may also require staff augmentation support in these areas, including provision of Programme and Project Managers, and Planners. However our intent for this framework is to have suppliers who can build solutions for us, deliver outcomes, and upskill our internal capability.
Lot #3Technical & Engineering Support ServicesAwardedRenewal UK, South EastPublished value£96,000,000
he Contractor shall support the Client’s Asset Management and Engineering teams in the development and design of project and programme interventions through the provision of a range of technical, engineering and design services.
The Contractor shall provide services which will support the development of a prioritised and optimised programme accounting for costs, benefits and risks and support periodic reviews of the programme.
The Contractor shall support the optimisation of delivery plans including packaging and phasing of works.
The Contractor shall provide the following services to support and enhance the Client’s capabilities:
Process – support SW capability
Hydraulic Modelling – enhance SW capability to design solutions.
Nature based solutions – support and develop SW capability.
The Contractor shall provide the following technical and engineering services:
Mechanical
Electrical
Civils
Environmental / enabling
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 (3)
- Technical: 70
- Commercial: 30
- price: 30
Published award criteria (3)
- Technical: 70
- Commercial: 30
- Price: 30
- Suitability
Qualification requirements are detailed within the sourcing portal including:
Southern Water will use the Achilles Utilities Vendor Database (UVDB) to provide confirmation of certain capabilities and standards – including Health and Safety, Environmental and Corporate Social Responsibility. Further information on the UVDB is available at www.achilles.com/community/uvdb/ ↗
Southern Water is required by its investors to ensure that any key supplier has good economic and financial standing. A CreditSafe check will be used for this purpose, together with other background checks if needed, at the discretion of the Client. A Tenderer may be rejected if the recommended annual contract value for their company on CreditSafe is below the proposed annual value of the contract. The annual value of the contract is calculated by dividing the estimated total value by the initial period. Where a framework is tendered, the annual value would also be divided by the number of Service Providers expected to be appointed; this would not always be an equal division, as different lots may have different values. If a bidder fails this test, and only publishes abridged accounts, Southern Water may allow the bidder to proceed. This would be on the basis of providing turnover data that satisfies the annual contract value accounting for less than a half of their annual turnover; and do not have an adverse risk score on CreditSafe. Alternatively, a Parent Company Guarantee or bank Guarantee may be a…
- Legal form for consortia
- Consortium proposed legal structure if the group of economic operators intends to form a named single legal entity prior to signing a contract, if awarded. If you do not propose to form a single legal entity, please explain the legal structure. Southern Water may require the consortium to assume a specific legal form if awarded the contract, to the extent that it is necessary for the satisfactory performance of the contract.
- Shortlisting
- Tenderers’ response to the PQQ will be scored in the order as outlined in the sourcing portal, with those sections marked as Pass/Fail where the Tenderer will either meet or fail to meet the minimum criteria. All prospective Tenderers are required to pass each question within the SWS PQQ response forms. A full response to Qualification Envelope is required, except where indicated. Failure to respond fully to any required question in this section or not being able to meet the minimum requirement will result in the submission being non-compliant and being excluded from the process, except where the SWS Commercial Head determines that a genuine error has been made, and a correction may then be permitted.
- Price carries 60 of 130 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 points. Quality carries 70 of 130: the paper moves it further than the discount.
- “Southern Water AMP 8 Professional Services Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 9 suppliers, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 7 Mar 2023, 11:24 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Jun 2024, 11:51 BST
- Authority reference
prj_4007- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-017583- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03aea2Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Performance terms
As stated in the procurement documents aligned with SWS balanced scorecard
Publisher note: Framework will not exceed 8 years The overall value of £240m detailed in Section II.1.5) of the Contract Notice and the Bravo portal comprises: (a) £150m for the initial 5 year term; and (b) £90m for the potential extension period(s)(the framework has the potential to be extended by a further 3 years estimated at £30m per year). The values per lots are as described below: - Lot 1 Asset Management Support Services: £80m, comprising (a) £50m + (b) (£10m x 3 additional years) - Lot 2 Programme & Project Management Support Services: £64m, comprising (a) £40m + (b) (£8m x 3 additional years) - Lot 3 Technical & Engineering Support Services: £96m, comprising (a) £60m + (b) (£12m x 3 additional years) Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information: This procurement exercise will be conducted on the Jaggaer One e-procurement portal at: https://southernwater.bravosolution.co.uk/ Candidates wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement specific information through the portal as follows: i) Candidates should register on the Jaggaer One e-procurement portal at: https://southernwater.bravosolution.co.uk/ ii) Once registered, candidates must express their interest as follows: a) login to the portal; b) select ‘View current opportunities and notices’; c) access the listing related to this framework d) click on Express Interestbutton; iii) Once you have expressed interest, please complete the PQQ. You must then publish your reply using the publish button; iv) For any support in submitting your expression of interest please contact the eTendering help desk at. 0800 368 4850 or [email protected] https://southernwater.bravosolution.co.uk/esop/toolkit/opportunity/current/55820/detail.si Closing date of the PQQ: 05/06/2023.
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://southernwater.bravosolution.co.uk/ ↗
- Appointment period ends
- 5 Jun 2023, 16:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
Timeline
4 Apr 2023 → 6 Jun 2024 · 4 dates- Next notice expected4 Apr 2023, 00:00 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown5 Jun 2023, 16:00 BST
- Invitations to tender expected14 Aug 2023, 00:00 BST
- Notice published6 Jun 2024, 11:51 BST
Notice history
6 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 28 Apr 2023- Published value updated to £240,000,00028 Apr 2023, 13:32 BSTwas £250,000,000
- Status changed to active28 Apr 2023, 13:32 BST
- Procurement method changed28 Apr 2023, 13:32 BST
- Deadline published: 5 Jun 2023, 16:00 BST28 Apr 2023, 13:32 BST
- Buyer details updated28 Apr 2023, 13:32 BST
- Status changed to complete6 Jun 2024, 11:51 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast9 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 3 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £96,000,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Asset Management Support Services
- Signed
- 13 May 2024
- Value
- £80,000,000
- Status
- active
PMO and Project Management
- Signed
- 13 May 2024
- Value
- £64,000,000
- Status
- active
Technical & Engineering Support Services
- Signed
- 13 May 2024
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Asset Management Support Services
- Signed
- 13 May 2024
- Value
- £80,000,000
- Status
- active
PMO and Project Management
- Signed
- 13 May 2024
- Value
- £64,000,000
- Status
- active
Technical & Engineering Support Services
- Signed
- 13 May 2024
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Asset Management Support Services
- Signed
- 13 May 2024
- Value
- £80,000,000
- Status
- active
PMO and Project Management
- Signed
- 13 May 2024
- Value
- £64,000,000
- Status
- active
Technical & Engineering Support Services
- Signed
- 13 May 2024
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Professional services - Asset Management Support Services | 8bids · 8 electronic · 8 from abroad | — | — | — |
| 2 · PMO and Project Management | 9bids · 9 electronic · 9 from abroad | — | — | — |
| 3 · Technical & Engineering Support Services | 8bids · 8 electronic · 8 from abroad | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeDispute resolution & review bodies
- Southern WaterReview body
- Southern Water ServicesReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
10 commercial parties on the notice- AECOM LIMITEDFramework contractor
- AECOM LIMITEDFramework contractor
- BINNIES UK LIMITEDFramework contractor
- KPMG LLPFramework contractor
- MOTT MACDONALD LIMITEDFramework contractor
- MOTT MACDONALD LIMITEDFramework contractor
- OVE ARUP & PARTNERS LIMITEDFramework contractor
- STANTEC UK LIMITEDFramework contractor
- TURNER AND TOWNSEND PROJECT MANAGEMENT LIMITEDFramework contractor
- WSP UK LIMITEDFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria