Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 13 Jul 2026, 15:40 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Supply of Reinforcement for Concrete Base Slabs

Authority: SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED (Public body)

Framework agreementGoodsAbove thresholdUtilitiesSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£1,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Framework period 3 yrsends 31 Mar 2030 · starts 31 Mar 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Severn Trent Water are looking for partners to develop a fast and safe to install base slab reinforcement for a range of liquid storage tanks. These tanks can be either rectangular or circular and are to be constructed from Severn Trent designed modular pre-cast concrete panels which are much quicker to install than traditional offerings.

The design of the base slab reinforcements should focus on creating a small catalogue of optimised repeatable units that can be deployed to any size of tank without major modification to the design philosophy. The solution should focus on minimising installation time on site and reduce the amount of manual handling whilst ensuring the base slab and wall are correctly structurally tied together.

CPV: Bars, rods, wire and profiles used in construction · Construction materials

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
3 yrs from 31 Mar 2027

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

What it takes to win
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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 more
What this means for your bid
  • “Supply of Reinforcement for Concrete Base Slabs” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED buys Construction materials (CPV 4411), and who usually turns up

SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Construction materials (CPV 4411) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerSEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 19 known-size awards · market: CPV 4411 · UK-wide, n=113
21%42%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 15 of 17 known-location awards · market: CPV 4411 · UK-wide, n=120
88%67%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 15 decided notices · market: CPV 4411 · UK-wide, n=24
146 days54 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 146 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 1 of 14 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4411 · UK-wide, n=28
7%11%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer9 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market138 lots with bid counts · CPV 4411 · UK-wide
4% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 4%
Buyer: 0 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 138 lots with published bid counts.
2–333% / 33%
Buyer: 3 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 46 of 138 lots with published bid counts.
4–644% / 28%
Buyer: 4 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 38 of 138 lots with published bid counts.
7+22% / 35%
Buyer: 2 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 48 of 138 lots with published bid counts.

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.

On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.

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Assess each lot
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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 4436 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£1.0m

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 44. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
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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 314 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet6% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 314 similar lots
1 bid6%
19 of 314 similar past lots received 1 bid (6%).
2–326%
83 of 314 similar past lots received 2–3 (26%).
4–627%
84 of 314 similar past lots received 4–6 (27%).
7+41%
128 of 314 similar past lots received 7+ (41%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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.

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
Goods
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Utilities
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
13 Jul 2026, 15:40 BST
Last source update
13 Jul 2026, 15:40 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-065723
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Bars, rods, wire and profiles used in constructionConstruction materials
Delivery area
North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)London (UKI)South East (UKJ)
+1 moreSouth West (UKK)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c9bf Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

13 Jul 2026 → 31 Mar 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published104 days ago
    13 Jul 2026, 15:40 BST
  2. Market engagement86 days ago
    30 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    We are keen to engage with interested suppliers to help design and tailor a sourcing strategy and procurement process that meets our requirement but is also suitable to the widest group of suppliers.

    Any future Tender Notice will be published and response to this pre market engagement is optional and does not contribute to any procurement process.

    We invite suppliers to complete the following form and we will be in touch:

    forms.office.com/e/h4v7Yak6VF ↗

  3. Today
    25 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 157 days
    31 Mar 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    13 Jul 2026, 15:40 BST
    UK2

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

SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED

Contracting authorityPrivate utility GB-COH: 02366686 · GB-PPON: PQQN-5222-QDXR Severn Trent Centre, Coventry, West Midlands, CV1 2LZContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure