Official UK procurement notice
Winter Gritting Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: AFFINITY WATER LIMITED
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAffinity Water (AW) has a requirement for the provision of reactive gritting services to support AW's Control Operations team across all AW operational regions.
The Agreement will cover the provision of reactive gritting services across all AW operational areas and associated postcodes in response to adverse winter weather conditions and operational incidents, including burst activity.
Services include:
- Reactive gritting and salting services.
- Emergency response attendance during freezing conditions.
- Treatment of operational sites, access routes, and customer impacted areas where required.
- Provision of plant, vehicles, operatives and materials necessary to deliver the service.
- Out-of-hours, weekend and emergency call-out capability.
- Management reporting and service performance monitoring.
- Compliance with AW operational processes, site safety requirements and RAMS.
The following services are excluded from scope:
- Planned gritting services currently managed under separate GM arrangements by Estates.
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 1 Mar 2033, 23:59 GMT.
- How the procedure runs: Selection questionnaire (SQ) submissions will be scored in accordance with the criteria defined in the SQ documentation. Suppliers that are shortlisted will be invited to submit a proposal in response to the invitation to tender (ITT). Tender submissions will be evaluated and clarification meetings conducted (virtually or in person). Affinity Water may negotiate with tenderers and/or request best and final offers The successful tenderer(s) will be awarded the agreement according to the percentage weightings and criteria set out in the ITT.
CPV: Ice-clearing services · Snow-clearing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£800,000
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 (2)
- Technical: 40%
- Commercial: 60%
Published award criteria (2)
- Commercial
- Technical
- Price carries 60 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- 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
- Yes · next expected 1 Mar 2033
- First published
- 24 Jun 2026, 09:47 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Jun 2026, 09:47 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 19 Oct 2026
- Authority reference
C-04453- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-059221- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bbb1Find a Tender
- How it runs
Selection questionnaire (SQ) submissions will be scored in accordance with the criteria defined in the SQ documentation.
Suppliers that are shortlisted will be invited to submit a
proposal in response to the invitation to tender (ITT).
Tender submissions will be evaluated and clarification meetings conducted (virtually or in person).
Affinity Water may negotiate with tenderers and/or request best and final offers
The successful tenderer(s) will be awarded the agreement according to the percentage weightings and criteria set out in the ITT.
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 9 Jul 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadline
- 9 Jul 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Selection questionnaire (SQ) documents will be issued after the registration closing date.
Please note that this procurement process will be conducted electronically.
All documents and communications will be managed through the Affinity Water etendering portal called 'In-tend'.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please Register on our e-procurement portal In-tend (located here: intendhost.co.uk/affinitywater ↗).
Timeline
24 Jun 2026 → 19 Oct 2026 · 4 dates- Tender notice published120 days ago24 Jun 2026, 09:47 BST
- Submission deadline105 days ago9 Jul 2026, 12:00 BST
- Contract starts3 days ago19 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
- Award decision expected by2 days ago19 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published24 Jun 2026, 09:47 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications
- Bidding documents and specifications Please note that this procurement process will be conducted electronically. All documents and communications will be managed through the Affinity Water etendering portal called 'In-tend'. If you are interested in this opportunity, please follow the steps below: 1 - Register on ou…
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender