Tender

Intranet Refresh Project

SCOTTISH WATER

This public procurement record has 1 release in its history.

Tender

13 Feb 2025 at 14:39

Summary of the contracting process

Scottish Water is currently in the Tender stage of their "Intranet Refresh Project," which falls under the industry category of Software Configuration Services (CPV code 72265000). The tender is actively seeking a technical partner to develop, deliver, and maintain a new cloud-based intranet solution aimed at enhancing access, user experience, and information management across the organisation. The procurement method involves a Negotiated Procedure with prior call for competition and the total project value is estimated to be £5,000,000. Key project dates include the tender period end date on 17th March 2025. The project is expected to serve a wide geographical area across Scotland, with significant updates to the current intranet serving approximately 5000 employees as well as partners and service providers.

This tender represents significant growth opportunities for businesses specialising in software configuration, cloud solutions, UX design, and mobile integration. Companies with expertise in Microsoft365, SharePoint, and DevOps methodologies, particularly those capable of ensuring carbon-neutral services, are well-suited to compete. The successful contractor will not only benefit from the initial development project but will also have the potential for a longer-term engagement of up to eight years, with possibilities for involvement in future intranet, information hub, and portal projects. High emphasis on training and support means businesses with robust training programmes in both screen-based and in-person formats will have an advantage. Such an opportunity could drive substantial business growth through a strategic partnership with a major public sector entity like Scottish Water.

Find more tenders on our Open Data Platform.
How relevant is this notice?

D3 Tenders Premium

Win More Public Sector Contracts

AI-powered tender discovery, pipeline management, and market intelligence — everything you need to grow your public sector business.

Notice Title

Intranet Refresh Project

Notice Description

Scottish Water is looking to refresh its intranet and is seeking a technical partner to help develop, deliver and maintain the solution.

Lot Information

Lot 1

Scottish Water is looking to refresh its intranet and is seeking a technical partner to help develop, deliver and maintain the solution which will be a cloud-based solution.

We hope our new intranet will;

-Increase access for Mobile, Field & Frontline Workers: Emphasis on mobile functionality and engagement for frontline and field workers.

-Provide excellent User Experience (UX) & Visual Appeal: Focus on user experience and visual design.

-Provide advanced analytics capabilities to aid penetration of communication and support governance.

-Give efficient admin functionality to empower our Internal Comms team

-Improve information finding & knowledge management: Tools for locating information and managing knowledge, with strong M365 and SharePoint integration.

-Be excellent value for money: Cost-effective in delivery and ongoing product management.

-Be carbon neutral.


Key functionality we would like to have is:

1. Content Management:

- effective content management of various media types,

- targeting of communications to groups and/or personas (specifically MS Groups),

- use of templates for accelerated creation and consistent output,

- admin functionality to manage content.

- exploits Microsoft365 as a foundation

2. Integration:

- Integration with EntraID to help present a more personalised experience

3. Mobile and Tablet:

- Great UX for mobile and tablet

4. Accessibility

- Allow all our colleagues to engage with our intranet easily and in a way that works for them.

5. Authentication

- Work with Single Sign-on (with MFA) via EntraID (formally AzureAD)



Additional considerations:

- We would like to introduce a product management approach to our intranet, meaning that the selected vendor would be engaged longer term to provide resource capability to a DevOps team so that we can both maintain and support our intranet, whilst also exploiting new functionality and enabling adaptability into the future. We envisage an 8-year relationship with a review point mid contract.

- Scottish Water is committed to being NetZero by 2040 and we would like all our digital services to be carbon neutral.

- Our existing intranet serves around 5000 employees. Contract partners and service providers also access intranet content, as well as colleagues from our partners and supply chain.

- The contract will include provision to allow the selected partner to work on future intranet, information hub and information portal work if the need arises.

- We want our admin users to be able to fully exploit the solution and excellent training within the project and ongoing is essential. This may take the form of screen based and on occasion in person training. Additional information: https://atamis-scottishwater.my.salesforce-sites.com/ProSpend__CS_PublicLandingPage?SearchType=Projects

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-04deb8
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/004955-2025
Current Stage
Tender
All Stages
Tender

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Tender Notice
Procurement Type
Framework
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Selective
Procurement Method Details
Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support


CPV Codes

72265000 - Software configuration services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£5,000,000 £1M-£10M
Lots Value
£5,000,000 £1M-£10M
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
13 Feb 20251 years ago
Submission Deadline
17 Mar 2025Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Active
Lots Status
Active
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
SCOTTISH WATER
Contact Name
Struan MacAra
Contact Email
struan.macara@scottishwater.co.uk
Contact Phone
+44 7880460643

Buyer Location

Locality
GLASGOW
Postcode
G33 6FB
Post Town
Glasgow
Country
Scotland

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLM Scotland
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLM3 West Central Scotland
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLM34 North Lanarkshire
Delivery Location
TLM Scotland

Local Authority
North Lanarkshire
Electoral Ward
Stepps, Chryston and Muirhead
Westminster Constituency
Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch

Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)

View full OCDS Record for this contracting process

Download

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.

{
    "tag": [
        "compiled"
    ],
    "id": "ocds-h6vhtk-04deb8-2025-02-13T14:39:09Z",
    "date": "2025-02-13T14:39:09Z",
    "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-04deb8",
    "description": "https://atamis-scottishwater.my.salesforce-sites.com/ProSpend__CS_PublicLandingPage?SearchType=Projects",
    "initiationType": "tender",
    "tender": {
        "id": "SW25/DIG/1501",
        "legalBasis": {
            "id": "32014L0025",
            "scheme": "CELEX"
        },
        "title": "Intranet Refresh Project",
        "status": "active",
        "classification": {
            "scheme": "CPV",
            "id": "72265000",
            "description": "Software configuration services"
        },
        "mainProcurementCategory": "services",
        "description": "Scottish Water is looking to refresh its intranet and is seeking a technical partner to help develop, deliver and maintain the solution.",
        "value": {
            "amount": 5000000,
            "currency": "GBP"
        },
        "lots": [
            {
                "id": "1",
                "description": "Scottish Water is looking to refresh its intranet and is seeking a technical partner to help develop, deliver and maintain the solution which will be a cloud-based solution.<br/><br/>We hope our new intranet will; <br/><br/>-Increase access for Mobile, Field & Frontline Workers: Emphasis on mobile functionality and engagement for frontline and field workers. <br/><br/>-Provide excellent User Experience (UX) & Visual Appeal: Focus on user experience and visual design. <br/><br/>-Provide advanced analytics capabilities to aid penetration of communication and support governance. <br/><br/>-Give efficient admin functionality to empower our Internal Comms team <br/><br/>-Improve information finding & knowledge management: Tools for locating information and managing knowledge, with strong M365 and SharePoint integration. <br/><br/>-Be excellent value for money: Cost-effective in delivery and ongoing product management. <br/><br/>-Be carbon neutral. <br/><br/> <br/>Key functionality we would like to have is: <br/><br/>1. Content Management: <br/><br/>- effective content management of various media types, <br/><br/>- targeting of communications to groups and/or personas (specifically MS Groups), <br/><br/>- use of templates for accelerated creation and consistent output, <br/><br/>- admin functionality to manage content. <br/><br/>- exploits Microsoft365 as a foundation <br/><br/>2. Integration: <br/><br/>- Integration with EntraID to help present a more personalised experience <br/><br/>3. Mobile and Tablet: <br/><br/>- Great UX for mobile and tablet <br/><br/>4. Accessibility <br/><br/>- Allow all our colleagues to engage with our intranet easily and in a way that works for them. <br/><br/>5. Authentication <br/><br/>- Work with Single Sign-on (with MFA) via EntraID (formally AzureAD) <br/><br/><br/> <br/>Additional considerations: <br/><br/>- We would like to introduce a product management approach to our intranet, meaning that the selected vendor would be engaged longer term to provide resource capability to a DevOps team so that we can both maintain and support our intranet, whilst also exploiting new functionality and enabling adaptability into the future. We envisage an 8-year relationship with a review point mid contract. <br/><br/>- Scottish Water is committed to being NetZero by 2040 and we would like all our digital services to be carbon neutral. <br/><br/>- Our existing intranet serves around 5000 employees. Contract partners and service providers also access intranet content, as well as colleagues from our partners and supply chain. <br/><br/>- The contract will include provision to allow the selected partner to work on future intranet, information hub and information portal work if the need arises. <br/><br/>- We want our admin users to be able to fully exploit the solution and excellent training within the project and ongoing is essential. This may take the form of screen based and on occasion in person training. Additional information: https://atamis-scottishwater.my.salesforce-sites.com/ProSpend__CS_PublicLandingPage?SearchType=Projects",
                "value": {
                    "amount": 5000000,
                    "currency": "GBP"
                },
                "contractPeriod": {
                    "durationInDays": 2880
                },
                "hasRenewal": false,
                "secondStage": {
                    "minimumCandidates": 3
                },
                "submissionTerms": {
                    "variantPolicy": "notAllowed"
                },
                "hasOptions": false,
                "status": "active"
            }
        ],
        "items": [
            {
                "id": "1",
                "deliveryAddresses": [
                    {
                        "region": "UKM"
                    }
                ],
                "deliveryLocation": {
                    "description": "Scotland Wide"
                },
                "relatedLot": "1"
            }
        ],
        "submissionMethod": [
            "electronicSubmission",
            "written"
        ],
        "submissionMethodDetails": "https://atamis-scottishwater.my.salesforce-sites.com/ProSpend__CS_PublicLandingPage?SearchType=Projects",
        "documents": [
            {
                "id": "economic1",
                "documentType": "economicSelectionCriteria"
            },
            {
                "id": "technical1",
                "documentType": "technicalSelectionCriteria"
            }
        ],
        "otherRequirements": {
            "reductionCriteria": "See Procurement Documents for further information."
        },
        "contractTerms": {
            "performanceTerms": "See Procurement Documents for further information.",
            "hasElectronicOrdering": true,
            "electronicInvoicingPolicy": "allowed",
            "hasElectronicPayment": true
        },
        "procurementMethod": "selective",
        "procurementMethodDetails": "Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition",
        "techniques": {
            "hasFrameworkAgreement": true,
            "frameworkAgreement": {
                "maximumParticipants": 1
            }
        },
        "coveredBy": [
            "GPA"
        ],
        "tenderPeriod": {
            "endDate": "2025-03-17T12:00:00Z"
        },
        "submissionTerms": {
            "languages": [
                "en"
            ]
        },
        "hasRecurrence": false
    },
    "parties": [
        {
            "id": "GB-FTS-130632",
            "name": "Scottish Water",
            "identifier": {
                "legalName": "Scottish Water"
            },
            "address": {
                "streetAddress": "The Bridge, 6 Buchanan Gate, Stepps",
                "locality": "Glasgow",
                "region": "UKM",
                "postalCode": "G33 6FB",
                "countryName": "United Kingdom"
            },
            "contactPoint": {
                "name": "Struan MacAra",
                "telephone": "+44 7880460643",
                "email": "struan.macara@scottishwater.co.uk",
                "url": "https://atamis-scottishwater.my.salesforce-sites.com/ProSpend__CS_PublicLandingPage?SearchType=Projects"
            },
            "roles": [
                "buyer",
                "mediationBody"
            ],
            "details": {
                "url": "https://www.scottishwater.co.uk/",
                "buyerProfile": "https://www.scottishwater.co.uk/",
                "classifications": [
                    {
                        "scheme": "TED_CE_ACTIVITY",
                        "id": "WATER",
                        "description": "Water"
                    }
                ]
            },
            "additionalContactPoints": [
                {
                    "email": "help@scottishwater.co.uk"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "GB-FTS-2553",
            "name": "Glasgow Sheriff Court",
            "identifier": {
                "legalName": "Glasgow Sheriff Court"
            },
            "address": {
                "streetAddress": "1 Carlton Place",
                "locality": "Glasgow",
                "postalCode": "G5 9DA",
                "countryName": "United Kingdom"
            },
            "roles": [
                "reviewBody"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "buyer": {
        "id": "GB-FTS-130632",
        "name": "Scottish Water"
    },
    "language": "en"
}