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NEW WORKSTREAM — DATA & DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE
AI growth zones and hyperscale data centres are creating a new water sector procurement category. The same contractors delivering AMP8 civils and MEICA have the skills — watch this space for the first procurement notices.
C1237 — MC4 Managed Service Provider for the MWM/CAR Product Suite
✓ Awarded 1 Sept 2026
🏢 Northern Ireland Water💰 £15,116,400 inc VAT (£12,597,000 ex VAT)📅 Award notice published 7 October 2026 · 17 Oct 2026 to 8 Oct 2029, with 3 x 1-year extensions to Oct 2032📁 IT & Digital · Northern Ireland
NI Water has awarded a managed service provider contract covering licensing, implementation, support and maintenance of its MWM/CAR product suite, a cloud-based application. The procurement ran under the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016: a PQQ in January 2025, an ITN in November 2025, standstill from 17 to 27 August 2026 and award on 1 September 2026. The notice was published on 7 October for transparency.
PRO005018 — IED Leakage Detection and Repair (LDAR) Framework for Biogas Facilities
✓ Award notice 6 Oct 2026
🏢 United Utilities Water Limited💰 £1,500,000 inc VAT (£1,250,000 ex VAT)📅 Published 6 October 2026 · Standstill ends 15 Oct 2026 · 20 Oct 2026 to 19 Oct 2030📁 Environmental Services · Bioresources · North West
A four-year framework for leak detection and repair surveys at United Utilities' biogas and bioresources sites, in line with the Industrial Emissions Directive and Environment Agency guidance for biological waste treatment. The surveys detect fugitive emissions of volatile organic compounds, including methane, using optical gas imaging cameras across assets such as digester roofs, gas pipes, CHP plant and digestate storage.
🏢 Southern Water Services Limited💰 £1,432,800 inc VAT (£1,194,000 ex VAT)📅 Transparency notice published 6 October 2026 · Earliest signature 16 Oct 2026 · 19 Oct 2026 to 30 Apr 2027📁 Consultancy & Survey · Hydraulic Modelling
Southern Water has published a transparency notice for a direct award of hydraulic modelling verification services. The stated justification is extreme and unavoidable urgency, citing limited market capacity to fulfil the requirement. The contract runs for just over six months.
PRO004993 — Water Efficiency Services Framework, Lot 1 In-Home Audits
✓ Award notice 5 Oct 2026
🏢 United Utilities Water Limited💰 £3,999,999 inc VAT per supplier (3 suppliers)📅 Published 5 October 2026 · Standstill: earliest signature 15 Oct 2026 · Framework runs 24 Aug 2026 to 23 Aug 2028📁 Water Services · Water Efficiency · North West
Lot 1 of United Utilities' £42m Water Efficiency Services framework covers in-home water audits for domestic customers, including finding and fixing leaks, installing water-saving devices and giving behaviour-change advice. The framework also has lots for water efficiency devices and for small business and sector-led audits. It was tendered in April 2026, with bids due in June.
United UtilitiesWater EfficiencyHome Audits
🏆 Named in Award Notice
Aqualogic (WC) Ltd · Control Flow Technologies Group Ltd · P.N. Daly Ltd
East Hub — Client Support Services, Lot 9c (4 call-offs)
✓ Awarded 1–2 Oct 2026
🏢 Environment Agency💰 £1,623,721.55 inc VAT combined (£1,353,101.29 ex VAT)📅 Published 1 & 2 October 2026 · Oct 2026 to Sept 2027, extendable to Sept 2030📁 Consultancy & Survey · Water Resources, Environment & Navigation · East
Four call-offs under Lot 9c (Flood Risk and Asset Management, Commercial and Programme Management Services) of the Construction Professional Services 2 framework. Each supplies senior project managers and project managers to the Environment Agency's East Hub delivery programme, covering Flood and Coastal Risk Management, Water Resources, Environment and Navigation projects. Values: Mott MacDonald £623,761.92, WSP £490,524.17, Turner & Townsend £380,082.06 and AtkinsRéalis £129,353.40, all including VAT.
Environment AgencyConsultancyEast
🏆 Awarded To
Mott MacDonald Limited · WSP UK Limited · Turner & Townsend Infrastructure Limited · AtkinsRéalis UK Limited
Source: Find a Tender notices 092681, 093126, 093150 and 093204-2026 · published 1–2 October 2026 · View notice → · Full details →
Isle of Wight Water Recycling Plant — Biodiversity Net Gain Habitat Units
✓ Award notice 1 Oct 2026
🏢 Southern Water Services Limited💰 £2,543,658 inc VAT (£2,119,715 ex VAT)📅 Published 1 October 2026 · Standstill ends 13 Oct 2026 · 1 Nov 2026 to 31 Mar 2027📁 Environmental Services · Biodiversity Net Gain · Isle of Wight
Southern Water is buying biodiversity net gain habitat units to discharge the planning condition for its Isle of Wight water recycling plant, before construction starts. It is a direct award to four suppliers, justified on technical grounds as a single-supplier requirement.
Southern WaterBiodiversity Net GainIsle of Wight
🏆 Named in Award Notice
Harry Ferguson Farms Limited · Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust · A.E. Brown Farms Ltd · Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Preferred Systems Integrator — SCADA, OT Consultancy & 24/7 Support
✓ Awarded 30 Sept 2026
🏢 Guernsey Water (GWA)💰 c. £500,000📅 3-year framework · Reported 30 September 2026📁 MEICA · SCADA & Controls · Channel Islands
Guernsey Water has appointed Actemium UK (VINCI Energies) as preferred systems integrator for SCADA upgrades, OT consultancy and 24/7 support, delivered with SolutionsPT (AVEVA). It forms part of GWA's wider £130m investment programme — a reminder that the Channel Islands run their own, smaller-scale but steady MEICA procurement separate from the AMP8 cycle.
🏢 Dwr Cymru Cyfyngedig (Welsh Water)💰 £38,000,000 combined across 9 lots📅 Published 29 September 2026, 3:23pm · Runs to Oct 2029, extendable to Oct 2033📁 Legal Services · Wales
DCC has split a nine-firm legal panel across General Legal, Competition Law, Water Sector Regulation, Treasury and Insurance lots — Michelmores (£16.31m) and Burges Salmon (£14.31m) take the two largest awards, covering Competition Law and Water Sector Regulation respectively. Not the first water company legal framework of the year: Scottish Water ran a £15.2m version in August, and Severn Trent awarded its own legal panel earlier in AMP8.
🏢 Dwr Cymru Welsh Water💰 £4,984,596 + £2,918,718 + £1,925,352📅 Published 28 September 2026, 12:08pm📁 Fleet & Vehicles · Wales
DCC has split its new commercial vehicle fleet procurement — Ford Transit Customs, Transit Connects, MAN TGE panel vans and Isuzu D-Max utility vehicles — across three suppliers rather than a single-source deal. A reminder that water company fleet renewal is a recurring, non-regulatory revenue line for vehicle dealers and converters, separate from the AMP8 capital programme.
FleetVehiclesWelsh Water
🏆 Awarded To
MON MOTORS LIMITED · MAN TRUCK AND BUS UK LIMITED · Tanners Isuzu Cardiff
🏢 Thames Water Utilities Limited💰 £5,800,000 incl. VAT📅 Published 28 September 2026, 10:53am · Contract from 30 Oct 2026, up to 9yr incl. extensions📁 Smart Metering & AMI · London · South East
Thames Water has appointed a single partner to run meter operation, data collection and data aggregation across 100% of its electricity metering portfolio — a reminder that water companies' own energy infrastructure (not just customer-facing smart metering) is a live AMP8 procurement category in its own right.
🏢 Severn Trent Water Limited & Hafren Dyfrdwy Cyfyngedig💰 £28,800,000📅 Published 28 September 2026, 10:31am · Runs to 7 Oct 2030📁 Fleet & Vehicles · Employee Benefits · UK
Severn Trent and Hafren Dyfrdwy have awarded their employee EV salary-sacrifice leasing scheme to TuskerDirect — a sizeable benefits contract that sits alongside, rather than inside, the capital AMP8 programme.
🏢 Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat)💰 £6,000,000 incl. VAT📅 Published 30 September 2026 · Term 8 Oct 2026 to 8 Oct 2028, extendable to 2030📁 Consultancy & Survey · Regulatory · UK-wide
Following Ofwat's £30.5m redress package against South East Water, Grant Thornton UK Advisory & Tax LLP has been appointed as the Independent Monitor — reporting to Ofwat only on the company's delivery of its Performance Improvement Plan. Worth watching: a similar, larger Independent Monitor appointment for Thames Water (c.£15.6m) is expected to follow in October.
🏢 Environment Agency💰 £1,112,628.84 + £497,037.31📅 Published 25 & 28 September 2026📁 Consultancy & Survey · Water Resources, Environment & Navigation · Midlands
Two further call-offs under the Environment Agency's Client Support Framework for its Midlands hub — Water Resources, Environment and Navigation work split between Mott MacDonald and AECOM. Consistent with the EA's pattern of spreading consultancy call-offs across multiple framework members rather than single-sourcing.
Alconbury Weald Twin Pumped Rising Main — 7.46km HDD Pipeline
✓ Awarded 24 Sept 2026
🏢 Anglian Water (@one Alliance)💰 £14,600,000📅 Announced 24 September 2026 · Handover to developer Nov 2027📁 Civil Engineering · Growth & New Connections · Pipelines · East of England
Barhale has been appointed prime contractor through the @one Alliance to deliver a 7,460m twin pumped rising main (400mm/315mm/250mm) serving the Alconbury Weald new town near Huntingdon — around 6,200 homes and 190,000m² of employment space — discharging into Huntingdon Water Recycling Centre. Horizontal directional drilling is used at 10 locations, including complex crossings beneath the East Coast Main Line and the River Great Ouse. A reminder that growth-driven schemes like this are a steady, non-regulatory source of AMP8 work for HDD and trenchless specialists as housing targets bite.
GrowthHDDPipelineAnglian Water@one Alliance
🏆 Awarded To
Barhale
Source: WaterBriefing · 24 September 2026 · Full details →
Programme-Wide Value for Money Appraisal — Major Water Infrastructure Programme
✓ Awarded 18 Sept 2026
🏢 Ofwat💰 Value undisclosed📅 Signed 1 August 2026 · Contract term to 31 Oct 2026 (option to 31 Dec 2026)📁 Consultancy & Survey · Reservoirs · Major Water Infrastructure Programme
Ofwat has appointed Allora Infrastructure Ltd to run a two-stage Value for Money appraisal of the Major Water Infrastructure Programme (MWIP), with an initial focus on the Reservoir Programme — identifying, testing and prioritising credible cost, schedule and delivery opportunities. A reminder that MWIP scrutiny is intensifying just as several major reservoir schemes (Fens/Lincolnshire, White Horse) move through procurement — worth watching for knock-on cost-efficiency requirements flowing down to Tier 1/2 suppliers.
ReservoirsMWIPValue for MoneyOfwat
🏆 Awarded To
Allora Infrastructure Ltd
Source: WaterBriefing · 18 September 2026 · Full details →
Lowlands Peat Evidence Synthesis and Knowledge Gaps
✓ Awarded
🏢 Environment Agency💰 c. £118,000📅 Direct award, published w/c 15 September 2026📁 Consultancy & Survey · Peat & Land Management · Environment Agency
A smaller direct award, but a useful signal for environmental consultancies — the Environment Agency continues to commission targeted evidence-synthesis and knowledge-gap studies feeding into wider catchment and nutrient-neutrality policy work, alongside its larger WINEP-linked procurement.
PeatEnvironmental ConsultancyEnvironment Agency
Source: WaterBriefing · 21 September 2026 · Full details →
River Mease Improvement Project — 23km Cross-Country Pipeline
✓ Awarded 11 Sept 2026
🏢 Severn Trent Water💰 £110,000,000📅 Announced 11 September 2026📁 Civil Engineering · WINEP · Pipelines · Midlands
Galliford Try's Environment business has been appointed to deliver the River Mease Improvement project on behalf of Severn Trent — a WINEP-driven scheme building a 23km cross-country pipeline to convey flows from the Packington and Measham treatment works, including a duelled section at the A42 crossing, discharging at a designated outfall into the River Tame. A reminder that WINEP environmental-compliance schemes remain one of the steadiest sources of large single-site civils packages this AMP8 cycle.
Source: WaterBriefing · 11 September 2026 · Full details →
Risk Management Advisory Services — Energy Price Hedging
✓ Awarded 7 Sept 2026
🏢 NI Water💰 £1,176,000 incl. VAT📅 Award decision 7 Sept 2026 · Signing from 17 Sept 2026 · Contract 1 Oct 2026 – 30 Sept 2028 (options to 2033)📁 Consultancy & Survey · Energy Risk Management · Northern Ireland
NI Water has awarded a contract covering the ongoing development of its energy risk management policy and strategy, plus advisory services on energy price hedging through commodity financial derivatives and indices. Four firms tendered. A small-value but recurring category worth flagging to energy and treasury advisory specialists working the Northern Ireland public sector.
Energy RiskAdvisoryNI WaterNorthern Ireland
🏆 Awarded To
Centrus Financial Advisors Ltd
Source: WaterBriefing · 8 September 2026 · Full details →
🏢 Scottish Water💰 Value undisclosed📅 Initial 4-year term, options to extend to 8 years📁 MEICA · Standby Power · Generators · Scotland
Scottish Water has awarded framework contracts for the supply, installation and maintenance of fixed standby generators across its estate. Units must run on both diesel and HVO fuel, with HVO expected to become the standard fuel on site. Five companies tendered; two were appointed.
Source: WaterBriefing · 5 September 2026 · Full details →
Framework for the Provision of Diving Services
✓ Awarded
🏢 United Utilities💰 £5,040,000📅 Published 28 Aug 2026📁 MEICA · Marine & Diving Services · North West
United Utilities has awarded a 3-supplier framework (PRO004969) for commercial diving operations under the Diving at Work Regulations 1997, covering inland and inshore projects across the North West network.
Source: Find a Tender, Notice 082351-2026 · Verified 30 Aug 2026 · Full details →
NW2942 — Intraday Workforce Optimisation Solution
✓ Awarded 14 Jul 2026
🏢 Northumbrian Water💰 £1,582,278.44 incl. VAT📅 Initial 3-year term, break clause after year 1 · options to extend up to 15 years📁 IT & Digital · Contact Centre Technology · North East / Essex & Suffolk
Intraday workforce optimisation and real-time management solution to complement Genesys Cloud across NWG's Operations contact centre — starting at around 50 users, scaling to roughly 250 across Northumbrian Water and Essex & Suffolk Water.
Workforce OptimisationIT & DigitalNorthumbrian Water
🏆 Awarded To
Qstory Limited
Source: Find a Tender, Notice 081496-2026 · Verified 30 Aug 2026 · Full details →
Water Meter Reading — AMR Data Collection (Ref C-03624)
✓ Awarded
🏢 Affinity Water💰 £3,690,000 incl. VAT📅 Published 28 Aug 2026📁 MEICA · Metering · Home Counties
Continued service to collect data from Affinity Water's existing fleet of AMR (automatic meter reading) meters, as demand for AMR reads is expected to decline over the next decade as the smart meter rollout increases.
MeteringAMRAffinity Water
🏆 Awarded To
M Group Energy (Metering) Limited
Source: Find a Tender, Notice 082011-2026 · Verified 30 Aug 2026 · Full details →
Meter Data Management System (Ref SW25/DIG/1508)
✓ Awarded 19 Aug 2026
🏢 Scottish Water📅 Options for four 1-year extensions📁 IT & Digital · Smart Metering · Scotland
Central cloud-based data management platform to support Scottish Water's nationwide AMI smart metering rollout to around 135,000 business customers — runs alongside a separate Atamis-procured framework for meters, head-end systems and comms networks. 17 tenders were received for this lot.
Smart MeteringIT & DigitalScottish WaterScotland
🏆 Awarded To
Elster Water Metering (t/a Honeywell)
Source: Find a Tender, Notice 080510-2026 · Verified 30 Aug 2026 · Full details →
Digital Directorate — Networks & Security + Applications Management
✓ Awarded 21 Jul 2026
🏢 Scottish Water💰 £230,000,000 combined (BT up to £130m · Accenture up to £100m)📅 Contracts start 1 Sept 2026 · Initial 4-year term, options to extend to 8 years📁 IT & Digital · Networks & Security · Applications Management · Scotland
Scottish Water has appointed two new Digital Partners as part of its ongoing technology transformation. BT Business takes Networks & Security Services — end-to-end responsibility for Scottish Water's connectivity and security estate, including around 7,000 network connections and a converged Network/Security Operations Centre. Accenture takes Applications Management Services, focused on the performance, stability and continuous improvement of Scottish Water's enterprise applications. Two separate contracts announced together — worth flagging for IT/OT integrators and cyber-security specialists working the Scottish water sector.
IT & DigitalCyber SecurityScottish WaterScotland
🏆 Awarded To
BT Business (Networks & Security) · Accenture (Applications Management)
Source: Scottish Water / Waterbriefing · 21 July 2026 · Full details →
Groundwater Modelling National Framework 2026–2034 (3 Lots)
✓ Awarded
🏢 Environment Agency💰 £21,360,000 incl. VAT📅 Open 8-year framework, 2026–2034 (reopens after Year 3 and Year 5/6)📁 Consultancy & Survey · Groundwater · Flood Forecasting · Nationwide
The Environment Agency has appointed 13 suppliers across 3 lots to a new Groundwater Modelling National Framework, designed to widen the supplier base to include SMEs not on existing frameworks. Lot 1 covers general groundwater modelling services; Lot 2 supports the Flood Forecasting Centre's groundwater flood risk modelling; Lot 3 is technical support for individual projects. The framework reopens for new entrants after Year 3 and again after Year 5/6 — worth watching if you missed this round.
Direct Award — Bentley Systems Engineering Software Suite
✓ Awarded 21 Aug 2026
🏢 United Utilities💰 £6,303,768.71📅 Published 21 Aug 2026 · Standstill ends 3 Sept 2026 · Contract 1 Oct 2026–30 Sept 2029📁 IT & Digital · Engineering Software · North West
United Utilities has made a direct award to Bentley Systems for its ProjectWise, AssetWise and OpenGround engineering software suite, published as a UK6 contract award notice on 21 August 2026 — a direct award on the basis that Bentley Systems is the proprietary supplier with no viable alternative, not an open competition. Worth flagging for context if you're tracking UU's engineering software estate, though this route isn't one Tier 2/3 suppliers can bid into directly.
Engineering SoftwareBentley SystemsIT & DigitalNorth West
🏆 Awarded To
Bentley Systems (UK) Limited
Source: Find a Tender, Notice 080064-2026 · 21 August 2026 · Full details →
Blackburn Biogas Plant — Early Works Package
✓ Awarded 26 Aug 2026
🏢 United Utilities💰 £29,000,000 (of £170,000,000 total scheme)📅 Awarded 26 August 2026📁 MEICA · Bioresources · Renewable Energy · North West
Kier has been awarded a £29m early works package on United Utilities' £170m Blackburn biogas plant — part of UU's bioresources renewable energy programme converting sewage sludge into biogas. Early works contracts of this type are typically the first tranche of a larger AMP8 scheme, so worth watching for follow-on main-works procurement as the Blackburn programme progresses.
BiogasBioresourcesRenewable EnergyKierNorth West
🏆 Awarded To
Kier Group
Source: Construction Enquirer · 26 August 2026 · Full details →
AMP8/9 Major Projects Framework — Design & Construction
✓ Awarded 17 Aug 2026
🏢 Anglian Water Services💰 £1,500,000,000 excl. VAT (£1.8bn incl. VAT)📅 Award decision 17 Aug 2026 · Standstill ends 26 Aug 2026 · Signature from 27 Aug 2026📁 Civil Engineering · MEICA · Process Technology · Major Projects · East of England
Anglian Water has appointed two joint ventures to its new Major Projects Framework, worth £1.5bn excl. VAT (£1.8bn inc. VAT) — one of the largest single AMP8/9 supply chain appointments of the year. The framework covers design and construction of major projects supporting Anglian's capital programme: civils (green and traditional), MEICA and process technology. This is the outcome of the framework that had been sitting in our Pipeline tab since the formal tender launched in February 2026 — now confirmed and moved to Awards. A clear signal of how Anglian's largest AMP8/9 civils and MEICA packages will flow through to Tier 2/3 subcontractors over the framework term.
Major ProjectsCivil EngineeringMEICAAnglian WaterEast of England
Source: Construction News / WaterBriefing · 18 Aug 2026 · Full details →
Business Management Consultancy Framework (5 Lots)
✓ Awarded
🏢 Southern Water💰 £65,300,000📅 Awarded July 2026📁 Consultancy & Survey · Business Management · 5 Lots · South East
Southern Water has appointed 35 firms across 5 lots on its new Business Management Consultancy Framework, worth £65.3m — covering regulatory advice, regulatory economic advisory and related professional services. Named appointees include WSP, Mott MacDonald, AECOM, Arcadis, AtkinsRéalis, Stantec, PA Consulting, Baringa, PricewaterhouseCoopers, CEPA, Oxera and Turner & Townsend, plus 23 further firms. A large multi-supplier panel appointment — worth checking your own listing status if you hold, or are chasing, business consultancy work with Southern Water.
ConsultancyBusiness Management5 LotsSouthern Water
Source: Industry monitoring · July 2026 · Full details →
AMP8 Innovation Strategic Partnerships Framework
✓ Awarded
🏢 Severn Trent Water💰 £24,000,000 inc. VAT📅 Awarded 31 July 2026📁 Consultancy & Survey · Innovation · AMP8
Severn Trent has awarded nine contracts under its AMP8 Innovation Strategic Partnerships Framework, worth an estimated £24m including VAT. Named suppliers were not disclosed in the published source — check WaterBriefing's contract listing directly for the current supplier list. A reminder that innovation and R&D-focused partnership frameworks are a growing procurement category alongside traditional civils and MEICA lots.
🏢 United Utilities💰 £1,500,000 inc. VAT📅 Awarded 22 July 2026📁 MEICA · Bioresources · AMP8
United Utilities has awarded a £1.5m AMP8 contract for lithium trace testing of anaerobic digesters — supporting asset condition monitoring across its bioresources treatment sites. Supplier not named in the published source.
🏢 United Utilities📅 Awarded July 2026📁 Civil Engineering · Storm Overflows · Better Rivers · North West
Barhale has won United Utilities' Better Rivers project at Stockport, delivering a storm overflow detention tank at Micker Brook, Bramhall — part of United Utilities' wider storm overflow reduction programme under AMP8.
Managed Service Provider — Capital & Responsive Maintenance (Water, Wastewater, Bioresources)
✓ Awarded — 3-yr Extension
🏢 United Utilities💰 ~£200,000,000 (analyst estimate)📅 Announced 15 July 2026 · Extension takes deal to full 10-year term📁 Civil Engineering · Managed Services · North West
Costain has been granted a three-year extension to its managed service contract with United Utilities, covering capital maintenance and responsive maintenance across water, wastewater and bioresources operations in the North West — taking the partnership to its full ten-year term through the rest of AMP8. The contract has supported over 900 capital maintenance projects and around 9,000 responsive maintenance activities to date.
Managed ServicesCapital MaintenanceCostainNorth West
🏆 Awarded To
Costain
Source: New Civil Engineer / Construction News · 15 July 2026 · Full details →
Hampshire Water Transfer & Water Recycling Project — BNG & Nutrient Neutrality Credits
✓ Awarded
🏢 Southern Water💰 c. £1,600,000📅 Contract signing 16 July 2026📁 Environmental · Biodiversity Net Gain · Nutrient Neutrality
Southern Water has awarded a direct contract to Wild Capital 1 Ltd — the only national developer of high-integrity Biodiversity Net Gain offset units and Nutrient Neutrality credits — to meet Habitats Regulations requirements for the c.£1.3bn Hampshire Water Transfer & Water Recycling Project, developed jointly with Portsmouth Water. Award made on grounds of extreme and unavoidable urgency. Another sign of BNG/Nutrient Neutrality specialists becoming a fixture on major AMP8 infrastructure schemes.
Maintenance & Support — Thickening & Dewatering Assets
✓ Awarded
🏢 Yorkshire Water💰 c. £3,500,000📅 Award decision 7 Jul 2026 · Signing 15 Aug 2026📁 MEICA · Bioresources · Process & Pumping · Clean Water
Yorkshire Water has awarded a structured, multi-supplier AMP8 maintenance and support contract for its thickening and dewatering assets, spanning Bioresources, Process & Pumping and Clean Water sites. Scope covers preventative and reactive maintenance, asset inspections, critical spares and hire cover for centrifuges, thickeners, belt presses, plate presses and gravity belt thickeners — including a fixed-fee "Total Care Package" service model for high-priority sites.
The Environment Agency has awarded a c.£56m contract for servicing, inspection, maintenance and repair (SIMAR) of plant assets — largely flood risk management infrastructure including pumps, generators and mechanical/electrical plant. A reminder that EA flood infrastructure spend runs in parallel to AMP8 and is a live source of MEICA and plant maintenance work adjacent to the water company programmes.
🏢 Portsmouth Water📅 Awarded June 2026 · Running to 2031 (+5yr option to 2036)📁 IT & Digital · Telephony · Business Resilience
Portsmouth Water has awarded its AMP8 Telephony and Resilience Framework to Vysiion, covering telephony infrastructure and business continuity/resilience services through to 2031, with an option to extend to 2036. A reminder that smaller water companies are still actively procuring specialist AMP8 framework lots — good territory for SME and niche suppliers.
🏢 Yorkshire Water💰 £32,000,000📅 5-year framework · 2026–2031📁 AI · Data & Digital · Asset Performance
Jacobs has been appointed to Yorkshire Water's £32m AI services framework — a five-year arrangement to co-develop scalable AI and data solutions covering asset performance, operational efficiency and decision-making across Yorkshire Water's £8.3bn AMP8 investment programme. Yorkshire Water's shift from AI pilots to operational deployment signals growing demand for digital delivery partners across the AMP8 period.
AIDigitalDataAsset PerformanceYorkshire
Source: AMP8 Briefing Issue #7 · 29 June 2026
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Greenwich Trunk Main — Final Phase (1km ductile iron pipeline)
✓ Awarded
🏢 Thames Water💰 £17,000,000 (programme total)📅 Commissioning expected May 2027📁 Civil Engineering · Pipeline · Water Infrastructure
Barhale awarded the final phase of the £17m Greenwich Trunk Main programme — installing the last kilometre of ductile iron pipeline to serve the growing Greenwich Peninsula. Commissioning expected May 2027. Notable for the use of ice-pigging during commissioning, saving approximately 1.8 million litres of water vs conventional flushing — a benchmark for water-efficient commissioning practice on AMP8 schemes.
Civil EngineeringPipelineBarhaleThames
Source: AMP8 Briefing Issue #7 · 29 June 2026
· Full details →
Design & Build — Springhill SRE No.3 Service Reservoir, Scarborough
✅ Awarded
🏢 Yorkshire Water🏗️ ████████████🔒 Members only💰 ██████📅 4-year programme · Construction start 2027📁 Civil Engineering · Reservoirs · Water Infrastructure
17.3 million litre twin-compartment reinforced concrete service reservoir replacing 93-year-old SRE No.1. Scope includes inlet, outlet and overflow pipelines plus pumping infrastructure. Off-site precast fabrication specified. Awarded via Yorkshire Water's £850m Complex Non-Infrastructure (CNI) Framework.
🏢 Yorkshire Water Services Limited💰 £80,000,000 (up to)📍 Yorkshire📅 Contract 1 Jul 2026 – 30 Jun 2030 (+2yr option)
Yorkshire Water has appointed 15 consultancy and engineering firms across four lots to its Technical Services and Assurance Framework, providing feasibility, options development, detailed design and assurance support for its £8.3bn AMP8 investment programme. Lot 1 (project-level technical services), worth £12.7m, was awarded to nine suppliers.
🏢 Severn Trent Water💰 £9,500,000📍 Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire📅 Awarded June 2026 · Completion early 2028
Barhale has been appointed to deliver additional stormwater storage and upgraded pumping capacity at Silverdale, reducing intermittent discharges from the combined sewer network. Scope includes a 10.5m diameter, 16m deep shaft providing 770m³ of storage, a new pumping station and full MEICA works. Part of Severn Trent's wider WINEP programme across Stoke, alongside similar shafts at Etruria Vale and Lower Oxford Road.
Source: WaterBriefing / New Civil Engineer · 23–25 June 2026 · Full details →
Digital Contingent Labour — First AMP8 Framework Call-Off
✓ Awarded
🏢 Thames Water📍 London & Thames Valley📅 Award decision 18 Jun 2026 · Signing from 30 Jun 2026
Thames Water has awarded its first call-off contract under the wide-ranging AMP8 Digital Contingent Labour framework, to change and transformation consultancy North Highland. Signals the start of active call-off activity under the framework — worth monitoring for further contingent labour and digital transformation opportunities.
🏢 South West Water💰 c. £140,000,000📍 South West England📅 Extended to March 2028
South West Water has extended its Network Services Alliance contract with Kier by c.£140m, making Kier sole contractor for repair and maintenance, leakage activity, network reliability schemes, metering and developer services. Continues a 20+ year relationship; Kier delivered 25,000+ repair and maintenance jobs and 32,000+ metering activities in the last year. Builds on Kier's AMP8 footprint across Anglian, Severn Trent, Southern, Thames, United Utilities and Yorkshire Water.
NetworksLeakageMeteringDeveloper ServicesSouth West
🏆 Awarded To
Kier Group
Source: WaterBriefing / Kier Group RNS · 12 June 2026 · Full details →
Services Framework — Odour Control Unit Routine Sampling
✓ Awarded
🏢 United Utilities Water Limited💰 £3,000,000📍 North West (England)📅 Published 1 July 2026
United Utilities has appointed framework suppliers to provide 6-monthly routine, MCERTS-compliant odour monitoring across Industrial Emissions Directive permitted wastewater sites. Odour Control Units (OCUs) are part of UU's AMP8 and AMP9 capital programme. Two suppliers appointed to the framework.
EnvironmentalOdour ControlFrameworkAMP8North West
🏆 Awarded To
Element Materials Technology Environmental UK Ltd & Olfasense UK Ltd
🏢 Northumbrian Water Limited💰 £6,840,000 (2 lots)📍 North East England · East Anglia · Essex📅 Published 26 June 2026
Northumbrian Water has awarded BNG contracts covering its Northumbrian Water (70%) and Essex & Suffolk Water (30%) operating areas. Scope covers hedgerow, water course and habitat units across AMP8 capital delivery sites. Multiple suppliers appointed across two lots.
BiodiversityBNGEnvironmentalAMP8North East
🏆 Awarded To
EBL HB Ltd · Wild Capital 1 Ltd · Plantlife International · Northumberland Wildlife Trust · Middlemarch Environmental · Advance Northumberland · Natural Asset Partners · George Thompson (Great Oakley) Ltd · Braxted Park Farms
🏢 Southern Water Services Limited💰 £2,058,253📍 United Kingdom📅 Published 26 June 2026
Southern Water has awarded BNG credits contract for its 22.8km Andover Link Main project — a new underground water main linking Crab Wood Water Service Reservoir to other Southern Water sites. BNG covers hedgerow, watercourse and area habitats totalling 69.60 units across the project corridor.
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Northumbrian Water has completed award of all lots in its £780m AMP8 energy and gas framework — the largest energy procurement exercise in the sector this AMP. Framework covers electricity supply, gas supply and associated energy management services across NWG's operational sites in the North East and Essex & Suffolk. Final lot awarded May 2026.
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Yorkshire Water has awarded a £50m contract for contingent labour services to support AMP8 delivery. Contract runs from 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2029, with a possible extension to May 2030. Covers temporary and contract workforce requirements across Yorkshire Water's capital and operational programmes. Named award — Silver members can see who won.
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Severn Trent has awarded a £6m AMP8 contract for supply of precast concrete tank panels — used in storm storage tank construction across the Midlands as part of the £12bn national storm overflow investment programme. Named supplier available to Silver members. Signals Severn Trent's accelerating pace of storm tank construction in AMP8 Year 1.
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Multi-lot legal services framework covering main panel, business services, insurance & commercial litigation, and corporate legal. Covers the full Severn Trent plc group including regulated and non-regulated entities and Hafren Dyfrdwy.
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Third party administrator (TPA) claims handling, drying & restoration, and property reinstatement following water-related incidents at customer properties across the Severn Trent and Hafren Dyfrdwy regions.
Independent operational audit and assurance for United Utilities' regulated business. Ongoing performance verification and regulatory reporting assurance to support Ofwat compliance.
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Full fleet management including vehicle funding, SMR, driver risk management, accident management, rental management, telematics units — covering Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and Isle of Wight.
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Single-supplier framework for powder activated carbon supply and delivery. 8-year framework. Five firms tendered. Procurement managed through the water company's e-procurement portal.
Source: Public Contracts Scotland · Feb 2026 · Full details →
Water Treatment Chemicals — Multiple Lots
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Multiple lot chemical supply contracts covering coagulants, flocculants, disinfection chemicals, activated carbon and water treatment compounds for NI Water's treatment network across Northern Ireland.
🏢 Scottish Water💰 £60,000,000📅 Time limit for receipt of tenders/RTP: 12:00pm 2 October 2026📁 Water Treatment · Chemicals & Media · Scotland-wide
Scottish Water has gone to market for a contract covering the supply and service of filtration media used across its water treatment works — a core, recurring water treatment consumables category rather than a one-off capital scheme. A solid opportunity for chemical and filtration media suppliers already working, or looking to break into, the Scottish Water treatment supply chain.
Yorkshire Water is tendering an AMP8 framework for planning consultancy services to support its capital delivery programme — planning applications, consents and related advisory work across its treatment, network and reservoir schemes. Relevant for town planning consultancies and EIA specialists with a water sector track record.
PlanningConsultancyYorkshire WaterYorkshire
Source: WaterBriefing · 16 September 2026
AMP8 Online Ordering of Maintenance, Repairs & Operations Goods
📩 Tender Open
🏢 Anglian Water💰 £16,800,000📅 Enquiries close 11:00pm 7 Oct 2026 · Submissions close 11:00pm 14 October 2026📁 Procurement & Supply · MRO Goods · E-Procurement · East of England
Anglian Water is tendering a contract for an online ordering platform and supply of maintenance, repairs and operations (MRO) goods — a recurring consumables and e-procurement category rather than a project-specific scheme. Worth flagging to MRO distributors and e-procurement platform providers with utility sector experience.
MRO GoodsProcurementAnglian WaterEast of England
Source: WaterBriefing · 19 September 2026
Network Maintenance Services & Network Capital Works
⏳ Early Market Engagement
🏢 South East Water💰 Est. £1.62bn (£110m–£135m/yr)📅 Supplier webinar 1 Oct 2026📁 Civil Engineering · Network Maintenance · AMP8/9 · South East
South East Water has opened early market engagement for a network maintenance and capital works programme covering the remainder of AMP8 and all of AMP9, with potential to run into AMP10 — a multi-AMP pipeline rather than a single price-review cycle. Estimated annual spend £110m–£135m. A supplier webinar is scheduled for 1 October 2026 for firms wanting to register interest ahead of formal procurement. Not yet independently verified on Find a Tender.
Network MaintenanceCapital WorksMulti-AMPSouth East Water
Source: Waterbriefing · 20 September 2026
Sewer Flooding Mitigation Framework Agreement
📩 Tender Open
🏢 United Utilities💰 £24,936,000 incl. VAT📅 Enquiries close 4pm 21 Sept 2026 · Submissions close 4pm 28 Sept 2026 · Award est. 30 Oct 2026📁 Civil Engineering · Sewer Flooding · AMP8 · North West
United Utilities is tendering an AMP8 framework to mitigate sewer flooding, appointing a single supplier who will hold responsibility for the entire scope. Contract runs 10 November 2026 to 31 March 2030, with options to extend to 31 March 2040. Competitive flexible procedure, combined PSQ and initial ITT submission — UU may award directly off initial tenders without a further negotiation stage, so first submissions matter.
Sewer FloodingCivil EngineeringUnited UtilitiesNorth West
Source: WaterBriefing · 28 August 2026 · View tender →
NI Water's successor to the outgoing IF105 framework (which expires May 2028) — one of the largest single procurements in the UK water sector this year. Four lots: minor pipelaying, minor civil works, minor mechanical and electrical work, and major multidisciplinary projects. Initial six-year term from 1 October 2027, with three further two-year extension options (up to 12 years total). Value refined from an earlier £12.6bn market-engagement estimate (July/Aug 2026) to £10.5bn in the formal notice.
FrameworkCivilsM&ENI WaterNorthern Ireland
Source: Find a Tender, notice 085571-2026 · Construction News, 10 Sept 2026 · verified 13 September 2026
AMP8/9 Energy Services Contract
🔴 Closed — Award Pending
🏢 Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water💰 c. £1,100,000,000📅 Submission deadline 5:00pm 11 Sept 2026 — now passed📁 MEICA · Energy Services · AMP8/9 · Wales
Welsh Water went to market for a major energy services contract spanning AMP8 and AMP9 — one of the largest single procurement notices tracked this quarter. Submissions closed 11 September 2026; no award decision confirmed yet. Worth watching for the award announcement if you're in energy management, renewables or net-zero delivery at utility scale.
Energy ServicesNet ZeroAMP8/9Welsh WaterWales
Source: Find a Tender, notice 078316-2026 · verified 13 September 2026
Administrative & Technical Support Services Contract
🔴 Closed — Award Pending
🏢 UK Water Industry Telecoms Association (TAUWI)💰 £1,200,000📅 Submissions closed 17 Sept 2026 · Award est. 10 Nov 2026📁 IT & Digital · Telecoms · Association Support Services
TAUWI — the body representing telecommunications interests across the UK water industry — is tendering for administrative and technical support services for its members. Contract runs 1 December 2026 to 30 November 2029, with a possible extension to November 2031. A smaller-value, sector-specific opportunity worth flagging for consultancy and association-support providers already working the water telecoms space.
TelecomsAssociation SupportIT Services
Source: WaterBriefing · 4 September 2026
AMP8 Debt Collection Services Framework (6 Lots)
🔴 Closed — Award Pending
🏢 Anglian Water Services💰 c. £16,000,000 incl. VAT📅 RTP deadline closed 3 Sept 2026 · Award est. 1 Apr 2027📁 Legal Services · Debt Collection · Household Debt · 6 Lots · East of England
Anglian Water is appointing multiple Debt Collection Agencies under a framework of up to 8 years to recover household debt, tendered across 6 lots (standard collection, financially vulnerable customers, court placements, trace & collect). Commission-led model plus fixed-price value-add services (affordability referrals, vulnerability support, tracing). Tendered via Ariba.
Debt Collection6 LotsAnglian WaterEast of England
Source: WaterBriefing · 3 August 2026
Managed Detection & Response (MDR) — Cyber Security Service
📩 Tender Open
🏢 Southern Water💰 £10,000,000📅 Submissions close 4:00pm 21 September 2026 · Award est. 27 November 2026📁 IT & Digital · Cyber Security · MDR · OT/IT · AMP8
Southern Water is tendering a single-supplier AMP8 contract for a combined Managed Detection and Response service covering both its Corporate/IT and Operational Technology (OT) environments — 24/7/365 continuous monitoring, threat detection and triage. The provider will be expected to integrate telemetry from Southern Water's existing security tooling (Nozomi Networks, Cisco Cyber Vision, CrowdStrike) rather than replace it by default. Contract runs 1 July 2027 – 30 June 2030, with two further extension options to 30 June 2032. A clear signal that OT cyber security is now a live AMP8 procurement category in its own right, not just a line item inside wider IT frameworks.
🏢 Yorkshire Water💰 c. £17,200,000📅 Enquiries closed 21 August 2026 · Award not yet confirmed📁 Civil Engineering · Water Mains · Sheffield · AMP8
Yorkshire Water went to market for an AMP8 water mains pipeline renewal contract in Sheffield worth around £17.2m. The enquiries window has now closed with no award publicly confirmed yet — worth checking Find a Tender directly if you submitted. A straightforward civils and network renewal opportunity for contractors with UK water mains replacement experience and a South Yorkshire presence.
Water MainsPipeline RenewalSheffieldYorkshire
Source: WaterBriefing · August 2026
Independent Monitor for Thames Water
⏳ Bids Closed — Award Pending
🏢 Ofwat💰 £15,600,000📅 Enquiries closed 24 August 2026 · Award not yet confirmed📁 Audit & Assurance · Regulatory Monitoring
Ofwat's procurement of an Independent Monitor to oversee Thames Water has now closed for enquiries with no award publicly confirmed — a regulatory assurance appointment rather than a delivery contract, but a reminder that audit, assurance and monitoring specialists have a route into the sector alongside the usual civils and MEICA work.
Independent MonitorRegulatoryAuditThames Water
Source: WaterBriefing · August 2026
Independent Monitor for South East Water
⏳ Bids Closed — Award Pending
🏢 Ofwat💰 £6,000,000📅 Enquiries closed 24 August 2026 · Award not yet confirmed📁 Audit & Assurance · Regulatory Monitoring
A companion procurement to the Thames Water Independent Monitor contract above — Ofwat is separately appointing an Independent Monitor for South East Water, worth £6m. Same closed enquiries window; same audit/assurance specialist audience.
Independent MonitorRegulatoryAuditSouth East Water
Source: WaterBriefing · August 2026
Supply, Installation and Maintenance of EV Charging Infrastructure
🔴 Closed — Award Pending
🏢 Scottish Water💰 £12,000,000 excl. VAT📅 Submissions closed 7 Sept 2026 · Award not yet confirmed📁 Electrical Installation · EV Charging · Net Zero · Scotland-wide
Scottish Water has gone to market for a single contractor to deliver a fully managed, end-to-end EV charging service across its entire Scottish estate — supply and installation of AC/DC charging equipment, civil and electrical works, commissioning, testing and certification, plus ongoing planned and reactive maintenance. Framework agreement with a single operator, 96-month (8-year) term, no renewal option. Contractor must demonstrate capability as Principal Contractor/Designer under CDM, hold SELECT (or equivalent) membership, and comply with BS 7671 18th Edition. Procedure: negotiated with prior call for competition. Relevant beyond the usual civils suppliers — a strong fit for EV infrastructure specialists and electrical contractors doing fleet decarbonisation work.
EV ChargingElectricalNet ZeroFleetScotland
Source: Find a Tender (2026/S 000-074824) · 6 August 2026 · View notice →
Leakage Management System — Managed Service Provider
📩 Tender Open
🏢 Northern Ireland Water💰 £10,000,000 excl. VAT (£12,000,000 incl. VAT)📅 Published 5 Aug 2026 · Submissions close 22 Sept 2026, 12:00pm · Award est. 10 Feb 2027📁 IT Services · SaaS · Leakage Management · Managed Service · Northern Ireland
NI Water is procuring a Managed Service Provider to run, licence, support and maintain its Leakage Management System (LMS) — the browser-based SaaS platform used to quantify and report leakage, support operational decision-making, and integrate data from network, metering, billing and field systems. Base term is 4 years (Feb 2027 – Feb 2031), with possible extensions taking the contract to 13 years total. Award criteria: 70% Quality, 30% Price. Procedure: competitive flexible, utilities regime; pre-market engagement already held in July 2026. A software/SaaS-led tender rather than the usual civils scope — worth flagging to water sector data platform and managed IT specialists.
🏢 Severn Trent Water💰 Up to £25,000,000,000 over 8–15 years📅 Pre-market engagement announced 20 Jul 2026 · Updated 31 Jul 2026 · Formal procurement expected early 2027📁 Civil Engineering · Capital Delivery · Design Services · Midlands
Severn Trent is preparing to launch a new generation of capital delivery frameworks worth up to £25bn over the next 8–15 years across the Midlands, spanning AMP9, AMP10 and AMP11. A parallel Design Services tender will run alongside the main capital delivery framework procurement. UK2 market engagement notices — including details of a dedicated market engagement day — are due to be issued shortly. Severn Trent says the majority of AMP8 work will continue with incumbent partners during the transition, but this is the first real signal of how AMP9-onwards capital delivery panels will be structured. Suppliers should register interest now ahead of the formal market engagement day.
Capital DeliveryAMP9AMP10AMP11Design ServicesSevern Trent
🏢 Southern Water📅 Engagement deadline 25 September 2026 · Est. contract start 18 Dec 2026📁 Civil Engineering · Reservoir Maintenance · Kent & Sussex & Hampshire
Southern Water has published a preliminary market engagement notice covering reservoir planned and reactive maintenance, structural repairs, pipework renewals, membrane installations and asset upgrades. Scope also includes emergency response, isolation planning and Regulation 31 potable water standards compliance. Contract runs an estimated 18 December 2026 to 18 December 2030 (+4yr option). Suppliers must first register on Southern Water's Jaggaer/BravoSolution sourcing portal to take part — a one-off registration step.
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White Horse Reservoir — Independent Technical Advisor (ITA)
⏳ Preliminary Market Engagement
🏢 Thames Water💰 Est. £48,000,000 incl. VAT📅 NDA submission deadline noon 25 Sept 2026 · Contract term Aug 2027 – Mar 2050📁 Consultancy & Survey · Reservoirs · Major Infrastructure · South East
Thames Water is preparing to procure an Independent Technical Advisor for the White Horse Reservoir project (formerly SESRO) — providing technical, commercial, programme, risk and regulatory assurance across both the Early Contractor Involvement and Delivery stages. Interested firms must sign an NDA via the Delta eSourcing portal to access the market engagement pack; this is not yet a live tender, but with a near-25-year contract term in prospect it's one of the largest advisory appointments in the reservoir pipeline. Worth registering interest early.
ReservoirsTechnical AdvisoryThames WaterSouth East
Source: WaterBriefing · 21 September 2026
Teddington Direct River Abstraction — Combined Tunnel & Treatment Package
⏳ Retender — Launch Expected Late 2026
🏢 Thames Water💰 £500,000,000 (replaces cancelled £242m tunnelling-only competition)📅 Cancellation confirmed 28 Aug 2026 · Fresh procurement expected before end 2026 · DCO application targeted early 2027 · Construction start 2029📁 Civil Engineering · Tunnelling · Water Treatment · Drought Resilience · London
Thames Water has scrapped its £242m Teddington tunnelling-only competition and will retender the scheme as a single, combined £500m package covering both the 4.2km tunnel (Mogden to above Teddington Weir) and the Mogden advanced treatment facility. The switch to single-contractor delivery raises the bar for entry — this favours contractors with combined heavy civils, tunnelling and treatment capability. Fresh procurement is expected to launch before the end of 2026, with a Development Consent Order application targeted for early 2027 and construction starting 2029.
Anglian Water is establishing an 8-year framework (up to 21 suppliers) for planning and consenting support across its major infrastructure programme — covering Strategic Consenting Advisory (Lot 1, £13.8–17.2m), Consenting Leadership & DCO Application Management (Lot 2, £35–44m), Environmental Services (Lot 3, £1.6–2m), Stakeholder & Consultation Support (Lot 4, £13.4–16.7m) and Land & Property Advisory (Lot 5, £16–20m). Directly tied to Anglian's desalination, reservoir and Strategic Pipeline Alliance programme, which needs DCO consenting support at scale. The estimated award decision date (21 August 2026) has now passed with no named suppliers publicly confirmed yet — worth checking Find a Tender directly for the formal award notice before assuming it's still pending.
Planning & ConsentingDCOEnvironmental5 LotsEast of England
Source: Find a Tender (2026/S 000-014930) · last edited 18 Feb 2026 · View notice →
🏢 Anglian Water💰 c£35,445,420 incl. VAT📅 Formal tender notice est. 11 Aug · RTP deadline 11:59pm 12 Aug 2026 · Award est. 18 Dec 2026📁 Ground Investigation · Geotechnical · Major Infrastructure · 5 Lots
Anglian Water is flagging advance procurement of its AMP8 Grounds Investigation (GI) Framework across 5 lots. Lot 1 (£18.9m) & Lot 2 (£6.3m) cover GI Works and Services for major infrastructure: 2 reservoir sites (Fens and Lincolnshire), 4 desalination plants, Advanced Water Recycling Centre in Colchester, and the Strategic Pipeline Alliance. Lots 3–5 cover smaller-scale works and groundwater investigation typically below £100k per call-off — potentially suitable for SMEs and micro entities. Scope includes drilling, boring, sampling, geophysical testing, instrumentation, in-situ testing, lab testing and GI reporting. Contract: January 2027 – January 2032, extendable to January 2035. Suppliers can express interest now via the contacts below ahead of the formal SAP Ariba tender notice on ~11 August.
Ground InvestigationGeotechnical5 LotsReservoirsDesalinationEast of England
🏢 Northumbrian Water💰 c. £1,800,000📅 RTP closed 11 Jun 2026 · Award decision est. 1 Sept 2026 (not yet publicly confirmed) · Contract starts Apr 2027📁 IT & Digital · Network Management · Clean Water · North East
Northumbrian Water is procuring a Water Network Management System for operational, analytical and engineering users to monitor, analyse and manage its clean water network. 5-year base term (options to extend 3+3+3+1 years) starting April 2027. The estimated award decision date has now passed with no supplier publicly confirmed — worth checking directly if you submitted.
Network ManagementIT ServicesNorthumbrian WaterNorth East
Source: WaterBriefing · June 2026
Fens Reservoir — SIPR Main Works Contracts (Market Launch Held)
⏳ Pre-Procurement
🏢 Anglian Water Services (with Cambridge Water)📅 Market Launch Event held 29 Jun 2026 · Contract dates est. 2031–2038📁 Civil Engineering · Reservoirs · NSIP · SIPR
Anglian Water held its SRO Fens Reservoir Market Launch Event on 29 June 2026, formally opening market engagement for the Main Works Contracts on this Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project. Delivered under the Specified Infrastructure Project Regulations (SIPR) model, the programme covers abstraction intakes, inter-catchment INNS treatment, the reservoir embankment, a water treatment works and pipeline transfers to Anglian Water and Cambridge Water. Procurement strategy for Main Works Contracts — including packaging and Early Contractor Involvement approach — is still being refined; formal tender launch expected to follow further market engagement. Suppliers should register interest directly with Anglian Water's reservoirs market engagement team.
ReservoirsNSIPSIPRCivil EngineeringEast of England
Source: Find a Tender · 2026/S 000-050532 · 28 May 2026View notice →
🏢 Southern Water📅 Engagement closes 14 Aug 2026 · Tender notice est. 17 Aug 2026
Southern Water has opened market engagement ahead of procurement covering its 200+ non-concrete tank systems used for drinking water, wastewater, process water, industrial effluent, anaerobic digestion/biogas and bulk solids storage. Estimated contract term 30 April 2027 – 29 April 2031 (+4yr option). Suppliers must register on Southern Water's Jaggaer sourcing portal to take part.
February 2028 to December 2041 — 13 years 10 months, with possible extension to 2041
End-to-end water and wastewater services including operation and maintenance of MOD's private water network across ~900 UK military sites. Single national Managed Service Provider (MSP) model. Replaces the expiring Aquatrine PFI contracts (expiring 2028 and 2030).
Preliminary market engagement published April 2025 (ref: 2025/S 000-015196). Industry Day held October 2025 at Villa Park, Birmingham. Full ITT expected to launch 2026.
The MSP will require a substantial supply chain for civil works, MEICA, smart metering, asset management and environmental compliance across 900 sites nationwide. Water sector contractors with defence clearance or willingness to obtain it should engage now.
Mechanical Services Framework — AMP8
⏳ Tendering
United Utilities
AMP8 Live TenderMechanical / MEICA
£57.6m
AMP8 duration
£57,600,000
Mechanical engineering services framework for AMP8 capital delivery across United Utilities operational network
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N2O Monitoring & Reduction — Managed Service
⏳ Supply Chain Engagement
Yorkshire Water
Market Engagement June 2026Environmental / Net Zero
TBC
AMP8 Net Zero programme
Yorkshire Water seeking supply chain input on potential procurement of N2O (nitrous oxide) monitoring and reduction managed service — June 2026
N2O is a potent greenhouse gas (265x CO2 equivalent) produced during biological nitrogen removal at wastewater treatment works. Reducing N2O is critical to AMP8 net zero targets — sector-wide 2030 commitment.
Real-time N2O sensors at STWs, data collection and reporting, process optimisation to reduce emissions, managed service model
Unisense Environment (N2O sensors already in directory), process technology providers, environmental monitoring specialists
N2O from biological treatment is one of the water sector's hardest-to-abate emissions — cannot be solved by solar panels alone. Severn Trent trialling solutions at Strongford Net Zero Hub. Yorkshire Water is next to move to procurement stage.
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Rainwater Management — SuDS Delivery Framework
⏳ Market Engagement — Closes 28 Aug 2026
🏢 United Utilities💰 Value TBC📅 Contract 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2030 (+ext to 2035)
United Utilities is engaging the market for a Rainwater Management framework covering sustainable drainage delivery across Cumbria, Lancashire, Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside — up to 10,000 interventions across 7 workstreams, from surface-water disconnections and street-based SuDS to major works, natural flood management, product manufacturing and surveys. Explicitly SME-suitable. Register interest via StrategicProcurementTeam@uuplc.co.uk by 28 August 2026. Source: Find a Tender 2026/S 000-075427, published 7 Aug 2026.
SuDSSustainable DrainageSME SuitableCivil EngineeringNorth West
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) — Long-term Framework
⏳ Pre-Market 2026
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United Utilities announced intention to launch a £20m+ long-term BESS framework following a direct award to MJ Quinn for four urgent systems at Adlington, Buckton Castle, Pex Hill and Cloughbottom. Pre-market engagement expected before formal tender. Part of AMP8 Power Resilience programme. Relevant to battery system integrators, BESS manufacturers and energy management platform providers.
Continuous Water Quality Monitoring — 300 Monitoring Solutions
⏳ Market Engagement → ITT
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Southern Water requires approximately 300 CWQM monitoring solutions across Kent, East and West Sussex and Hampshire — covering storm overflows and wastewater treatment works under Section 82 of the Environment Act 2021. By 2035 must demonstrate 75%+ of storm overflows at high priority sites cause no local adverse ecological impact. Scope includes hardware, installation, O&M, calibration and data. Market engagement closed — ITT anticipated to follow in 2026.
CWQMSection 82SensorsEnvironmentalMonitoring
Common Data Environment (CDE) Software
⏳ Supply Chain Engagement
🏢 ██████████████████🔒 Members only📅 Market engagement complete · Tender imminent
Severn Trent seeking supply chain input ahead of procurement for a Common Data Environment platform to support AMP8 capital programme delivery. CDE will provide a single source of truth for project data, drawings, documents and information management across the capital delivery programme. Market engagement complete — formal tender expected to follow. Relevant to engineering software, BIM and information management platform providers.
DigitalBIMCDESoftwareCapital Delivery
Sewer Sealing Services — AMP8 Programme
⏳ Tender Imminent
🏢 ███████████████████████████████🔒 Members only📅 Market engagement Oct 2025 · Tender late 2025/early 2026
Southern Water seeking specialist sewer sealing contractors to limit groundwater infiltration and inflow to reduce storm overflow spills. Techniques include chemical grouting, CIPP patch repairs, joint sealing and structural lining. Market engagement requested details of experience, techniques, delivery capacity and regional coverage. Tender now expected to be live — Silver members: check portal for current status.
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Framework for planned and reactive M&E maintenance and lower-complexity capital projects across Anglian Water's operational region. Estimated £30m/year throughput across 4 lots — approximately 3,000 jobs and projects annually. Covers AMP8 and AMP9. Market engagement closed February 2026 — formal tender expected to follow. One of the most significant MEICA maintenance frameworks in the Eastern region.
Data Centre Water Infrastructure — East Manchester Growth Scheme
⏳ Post-Ofwat Decision
United Utilities Water Limited💰 c. £200,000,000📅 Procurement expected early 2027 · Ofwat decision Dec 2026
United Utilities' £1.4bn AMP8 reopener submission includes approximately £200m for dedicated water infrastructure to serve data centre development in East Manchester — part of the UK Government's AI Opportunities Action Plan and associated hyperscale data centre investment programme. UK data centres require large volumes of water for cooling and process use. Scheme will require civil engineering, pipe infrastructure, pumping, process engineering and ongoing operational supply services. This is an emerging category — the same contractors delivering water mains, civils and MEICA on existing AMP8 frameworks have the skills to deliver this workstream. Subject to Ofwat final decision December 2026. Silver members will receive advance notification when procurement routes are confirmed.
Data CentresAI InfrastructureCivil EngineeringGrowth ConnectionsReopenerAMP8
AI Growth Zone Infrastructure — Water & Wastewater Connections
⏳ Emerging — Watch
Scottish Water📅 Government AI Growth Zones announced 2025 · Procurement to follow
The UK Government's AI Opportunities Action Plan designated AI Growth Zones in multiple UK regions, including Lanarkshire (Scotland) where a new micro-grid has been confirmed. Data centres and AI computing facilities in these zones will require water supply connections, cooling water infrastructure and wastewater treatment capacity — all procured through water company frameworks. Scottish Water is the relevant operator for Scottish AI Growth Zone connections. Watch for preliminary market engagement notices as development plans mature. Silver members will be notified when formal procurement activity begins.
AI Growth ZonesData CentresScottish WaterInfrastructureEmerging
United Utilities Water Limited💰 ████████████████████████████████📅 Ofwat draft decisions 15 Aug 2026 · Final 15 Dec 2026
United Utilities has submitted £1.4bn of reopener proposals to Ofwat — covering data centre water infrastructure in East Manchester (£200m), non-potable supply for Ellesmere Port clean energy cluster (£220m), wastewater treatment capacity for 67,860+ new homes (£350m) and proactive asset replacement (£410m). A further £1.2bn planned in 2027-28. Procurement activity expected from early 2027. Silver members will receive advance notification when framework call-offs and sub-contract opportunities are published.
Scottish Water has publicly committed to a separate Tier 2 framework specifically designed to open opportunities for smaller and specialist firms. Most important upcoming SME opportunity in the Scottish water sector.
Civil EngineeringMEICAScotlandSME Opportunity
Source: Scottish Water procurement briefing
Programme Delivery Partner — 15-Year Framework
⏳ In Procurement
🏢 Anglian Water📅 Award anticipated 2026
Strategic 15-year programme management framework spanning AMP8, AMP9 and AMP10. Winning firm(s) will coordinate the entire Anglian Water capital programme and build a massive supply chain across East England.
Programme Management15 YearsEast of England
Source: Find a Tender · 2025/S 000-046107View notice →
Defence Water Services Programme (DWSP)
⏳ Live Procurement
🏢 MOD / Defence Infrastructure Organisation💰 ██████████📅 Award Aug 2027 · Go-live Dec 2028
Single managed service provider for all water and wastewater across MOD England and Wales estate. Replaces three current operators. Largest water sector procurement event outside the regulated water companies. Major supply chain opportunity.
MODWater OperationsEngland & Wales£2.6bn
Source: Find a Tender / DIO
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