Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 4 Dec 2025, 09:25 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Wind Turbine · UK public procurement notice

Authority: YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED (Public body)

GoodsAbove thresholdUtilitiesSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Sept 2028from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 31 Dec 2030 · up to 31 Dec 2031 with extensions · starts 1 Jan 2029

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Yorkshire Water (YW) and Kelda are seeking to engage the market to discuss their planned deployment of new on-shore wind turbines and the repowering of some existing sites. Work done to date indicates deployments of 1-3 turbines at each location, with 25 sites under Consideration.

The deployments would be on YW operational land and would directly power the adjacent operational site, offsetting grid purchased power.

Early turbine identification, based on site constraints and available wind yields, suggests Kelda are looking to initially procure in the 500 kW - 3.45 MW range. This will result in a variance of turbine sizes from hub heights between 40 - 80 meters, and tip heights up to the region of 117 metres

The purpose of this notice is to open discussion with turbine manufacturers / suppliers to understand;

  • Equipment / turbines availability;
  • Indicative lead times for supply;
  • Indicative pricing, both capex and opex;
  • Indicative commercial terms; and
  • After sales maintenance provision.

These are non-conclusive and are likely to change as development progresses.

YW and Kelda are open to both new and refurbished turbines via direct purchases from OEMs, broker facilitated procurement and framework agreements.

CPV: Wind turbine generators · Wind turbines · Wind-energy generators

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Jan 2029 – 31 Dec 2030 (2 yrs) · up to 31 Dec 2031 with extensions
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED buys Generators (CPV 3112), and who usually turns up

YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Generators (CPV 3112) →

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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 buyerYORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED · all categories
The marketGenerators (CPV 3112) · UK-wide
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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 14 known-size awards · market: CPV 3112 · UK-wide, n=51
29%45%

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: 12 of 15 known-location awards · market: CPV 3112 · UK-wide, n=47
80%26%

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

How long to a decision?
i

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: 13 decided notices · market: division 31 · UK-wide, n=104
94 days28 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 94 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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 8 of 19 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 3112 · UK-wide, n=71
42%62%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

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 buyerNo bid counts published
The market167 lots with bid counts · division 31 · UK-wide
19% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid19%
Market: 32 of 167 lots with published bid counts.
2–339%
Market: 65 of 167 lots with published bid counts.
4–629%
Market: 48 of 167 lots with published bid counts.
7+13%
Market: 22 of 167 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer7 lots with estimate and award · all categories
14% below estimate
The market121 lots with estimate and award · division 31 · UK-wide
44% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate14% / 44%
Buyer: 1 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 53 of 121 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%86% / 31%
Buyer: 6 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 38 of 121 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 25%
Buyer: 0 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 30 of 121 lots with an estimate and award.
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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 311224 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published
Expected competition
i

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 167 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet19% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 167 similar lots
1 bid19%
32 of 167 similar past lots received 1 bid (19%).
2–339%
65 of 167 similar past lots received 2–3 (39%).
4–629%
48 of 167 similar past lots received 4–6 (29%).
7+13%
22 of 167 similar past lots received 7+ (13%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

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
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
4 Dec 2025, 09:25 GMT
Last source update
4 Dec 2025, 09:25 GMT
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-079573
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Wind turbine generatorsWind turbinesWind-energy generators
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
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How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

4 Dec 2025 → 1 Jan 2029 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published326 days ago
    4 Dec 2025, 09:25 GMT
  2. Market engagement268 days ago
    31 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT

    If you would like to express your interest please send an email to [email protected] with details of the company you represent and its offering and contact details for potential further discussion.

  3. Today
    26 Oct 2026
  4. Tender notice expected
    1 Sept 2028, 23:59 BST
  5. Contract starts
    1 Jan 2029

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    4 Dec 2025, 09:25 GMT
    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

YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED

Contracting authorityPrivate utility GB-COH: 02366682 · GB-PPON: PXGT-3622-WXBQ Western House, Bradford, Yorkshire & Humber, BD6 2SZContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure