Notice Information
Notice Title
Regulatory and Technical Assurance Services
Notice Description
Severn Trent Water Limited and Hafren Dyfrdwy Cyfyngedig (together, "The Utilities") have obligations to prepare, submit and publish a wide range of information required by their stakeholders including Ofwat, the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI), the Environment Agency (EA) and Natural Resources Wales. The information disclosed by The Utilities must be well founded and accurate. Therefore, the Utilities seek to appoint a professionally qualified technical auditor with specialist expertise in the water industry.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The supplier of assurance service forms a core part of the Utilities' assurance process, providing independent challenge and regulatory, technical insight on approaches and processes. The assurance supplier is key to enhance the Utilities' assurance maturity as well as delivering specialist expertise through process and data audits. The assurance Supplier has specialist expertise including financial and business management disciplines and supports non-financial ESG reporting requirements such as Taskforce on Climate-related Disclosures and Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures.
Options: A maximum of 24 months extension is possible
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0499d2
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/004587-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Selective
- Procurement Method Details
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
-
- CPV Codes
79410000 - Business and management consultancy services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £2,625,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £2,625,000 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 11 Feb 20251 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 18 Oct 2024Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 10 Feb 20251 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Sarah Griffiths-Jones
- Contact Email
- sarah-griffiths-jones@severntrent.co.uk, sarah.griffiths-jones@severntrent.co.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 2477716919
Buyer Location
- Locality
- COVENTRY
- Postcode
- CV1 2LZ
- Post Town
- Coventry
- Country
- Wales
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLL Wales
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLL3 North Wales
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLL34 Flintshire and Wrexham
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Wrexham
- Electoral Ward
- Ponciau
- Westminster Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) is a framework designed to increase transparency and access to public procurement data in the public sector. It is widely used by governments and organisations worldwide to report on procurement processes and contracts.
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