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# UK2 PME - Computer Aided Design Software

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/uk2-pme-computer-aided-design-software-ocds-h6vhtk-0694a9). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED: "UK2 PME - Computer Aided Design Software". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/severn-trent-water-limited-GB-PPON-PQQN-5222-QDXR)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Miscellaneous software package and computer systems, Software package utilities, Software-related services
- **Delivery Location:** UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/uk2-pme-computer-aided-design-software-ocds-h6vhtk-0694a9#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0694a9`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/uk2-pme-computer-aided-design-software-ocds-h6vhtk-0694a9#tl-md)

## Description
Digital Design and Authoring Software
This PME is intended to understand market capability across digital design and authoring disciplines. Severn Trent does not assume that all disciplines or use cases must be served by a single product suite or vendor. Modular, mixed tool, and discipline specific solutions are explicitly in scope where they integrate effectively with the wider digital delivery environment.
Suppliers are not required to demonstrate full coverage across all capability areas listed below. Responses should clearly indicate which capabilities are supported, for which disciplines, and under what operating assumptions.
The organisation requires digital design and authoring software to support 2D drafting, civil engineering, building information modelling, and multidisciplinary coordination. The following high level capabilities describe the range of functions required across these disciplines:
•	Advanced 2D drafting including dynamic blocks, reusable components, x‑refs, annotation, layers, plot styles, batch publishing, and standards compliance, with dependable behaviour across full, browser‑based, and lite desktop variants
•	Civil engineering design capability, including terrain and surface modelling, survey data import, alignments, corridors, pipe networks, long sections, cross‑sections, swept path analysis, and automated plan/profile/section production with full associativity
•	Robust interoperability, supporting LandXML, IFC, DWG, GIS, survey formats, and reliable bi‑directional data exchange with other civil, building, and asset platforms
•	Model‑based authoring and coordination, including parameter‑driven components, multi‑user collaboration (native or integration-led), clash detection, design validation, and standards‑based classification (e.g. Uniclass)
•	Intelligent MEP and specialist design tools, where relevant, supporting system connectivity, metadata‑driven scheduling, diagrams, and discipline‑specific documentation
•	Automation and extensibility, including scripting, visual programming, custom toolsets, and configurable ribbons to enforce organisational standards and improve productivity
•	Integrated documentation production, with automated annotations, schedules, sheets, title blocks, and associative drawings that remain aligned with live model data
•	Point cloud and reality‑capture support, enabling registration, visualisation, interrogation, feature extraction, and modelling from large scan datasets
•	AI‑assisted capabilities, including feature extraction, automated checking, drafting assistance, and rule‑based model validation. AI assisted capabilities are not expected to be uniformly available across all disciplines and should be described in terms of current, production ready functionality rather than roadmap commitments.
•	Reliable CDE (Common Data Environment) integration, ensuring controlled publishing, metadata preservation, versioning, approvals, and traceable workflows across design and documentation outputs....
> [Read full procurement scope and specification on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/uk2-pme-computer-aided-design-software-ocds-h6vhtk-0694a9)

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 48700000, 48900000, 72260000
- **Delivery regions:** UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 01/11/2027 to 30/10/2032

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F042502-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-05-08T12:20:28.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-20T19:05:21.837Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0694a9