2025 ERA External Regulatory Assurance (2025 0191- WS3202969892)

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            "id": "GB-PPON-PMZW-7779-DCNZ",
            "name": "Anglian Water Services",
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                "id": "PMZW-7779-DCNZ"
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            "address": {
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                "locality": "Huntingdon",
                "postalCode": "PE29 6XU",
                "country": "GB",
                "countryName": "United Kingdom",
                "region": "UKH12"
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                "email": "suppliersupport@anglianwater.co.uk"
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        "title": "2025 ERA External Regulatory Assurance (2025 0191- WS3202969892)",
        "description": "Lot 1 - Technical Assurance . Engineering design and technical scope . Optioneering and option-selection processes . Alignment between need, scope, solution and outcomes . Deliverability and programme milestones . Asset-management evidence and decision-making . Risk registers and technical risk assessments . Scope changes and change-control processes . Data lineage, data quality and evidence trails . Consistency with PR24 submissions, previous regulatory submissions and agreed assumptions . Environmental, statutory and regulatory drivers . Dependencies between schemes, programmes and strategic plans . The completeness, accuracy and robustness of technical evidence used to support Board and regulatory submissions Lot 2 - Cost & Efficiency Assurance . Cost-estimating methodologies . Unit rates and cost build-up assumptions . Comparative cost assessment and benchmarking including a range of econometric techniques . Cost drivers and explanatory factors . Risk, uncertainty and optimism-bias allowances . Scope-cost alignment . Allocation between base and enhancement expenditure . Cost escalation and inflation assumptions . Change control and change-control processes . Including, but not limited to checking Stata code and excel packages . Material movements from PR24 assumptions or other established benchmarks . Evidence quality and auditability . Consistency between costs, identified needs, benefits and expected outcomes Lot 3 - Financial Assurance . PR29 financial data tables and associated working papers . Anglian's use of Ofwat's financial model . Feeder models used to populate Ofwat's financial model . Financial model controls, including version control, formula integrity, change control, access control, input checks and output reconciliations . Documented processes for preparing, reviewing, approving and submitting financial information . Data lineage from source systems, working papers and feeder models through to final submission tables . Consistency between financial data tables, the financial model, business plan narrative, Board papers and assurance statements . Financial assumptions, including inflation, interest rates, dividend assumptions, gearing, PAYG, RCV run-off and other relevant financial parameters . Financeability assessments using both actual and notional capital structures . Calculation and presentation of relevant financial ratios . Economic and company-specific scenarios, including the treatment of the CPI/RPI wedge where relevant . Sensitivity testing and downside scenarios . Evidence supporting key assumptions and judgements . The adequacy of commentary explaining material movements, uncertainty, judgement and links to the wider plan",
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            "features": "Anglian Water Services is undertaking a Procurement Exercise to assess Bids for External Regulatory Assurance providers, as more fully described in the tender documents. Requirement is in lots as per ; Lot 1 - Technical Lot 2 - Cost & Efficiency Lot 3 - Financial Current Timeline - RFI : 10th July 2026 - 21st August 2026 RFP : 15th September 2026 - 7th October 2026 Award : December 2026 Stages - Stage 1a: Request For Information (RFI) 1b: Supplier Risk Event Stage 2: Request For Proposal (RFP): Stage 3: Contract Award RFI Shortlisting - Responses will be evaluated by Anglian Water and only Bidders notified that they have been short-listed to progress to the next stage should complete the RFP. Bidder RFI responses will be evaluated by Anglian Water against pre-defined scoring criteria detailed below and the three highest scoring bidders will be shortlisted to RFP. The information in this notice is accurate at the time of publication. Any changes will be notified to participants at the relevant time."
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                "description": "Any requirement for lot 1 and 2 will be awarded on a mini-comp basis. As and when there is a requirement for either lot, Anglian Water will follow the below process; . The Regulation team will email all the dedicated contacts (as provided by each successful bidder) detailing the requirement, the required output and the deadline for completion of work - as well as highlighting when the response is required by. We aim to give no less than 5 working days for a mini-comp response. . The interested parties will then email back a formal quote providing a fixed cost, based on the agreed rates in the contract Anglian Water will assess each quote and award to the appropriate supplier, based on; . Team expertise and knowledge . Mobilisation . Cost Lot 3 has a framework agreement but is single supplier and work will be directly award to the successful bidder."
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