--- title: "Digital Contingent Labour Framework" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-06016e" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-06016e" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06016e.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06016e.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Award" buyer: "THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED" published: "2026-06-18" --- # Digital Contingent Labour Framework Buyer: THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED Current stage: Award OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-06016e [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-06016e) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06016e.json) ## Summary The Digital Contingent Labour Framework by Thames Water Utilities Limited is a comprehensive initiative aimed at driving successful business analysis, project management, change management, and training functions within the digital sector. The competitive procurement uses a flexible selective procedure intended to establish a framework agreement with a span from 2026 to 2030, with possible extensions to 2034. The award-notice stage commenced on 18th June 2026, with the contract period slated to start on 30th June 2026. This process targets the technical and consultancy services industry across the regions of UKI and UKJ in the United Kingdom. This tender provides significant opportunities for business growth, particularly for large-scale enterprises proficient in project management, business analysis, and digital transformation strategies. The competitive nature of the framework, combined with its broad scope that covers multiple lots, invites businesses capable of delivering high-quality consultancy and support services. SMEs are encouraged to participate owing to the framework's suitability criteria, fostering an inclusive market environment. The framework's dependency on continuous strategic engagement highlights companies with a robust track record in managing large-scale change initiatives and delivering quality training interventions as preferred candidates. ## Notice Business Analysis: Business Analysis at Thames Water drives successful change by analysing business situations, assessing feasibility, and defining clear requirements across people, processes, and technology. Acting as a bridge between stakeholders and delivery teams, it enables the delivery of solutions that achieve strategic outcomes and deliver key business benefits. Additionally, Business Analysis fosters process improvement, strengthens stakeholder engagement, and ensures governance compliance through high-quality analysis artifacts and a commitment to continuous improvement. Key Roles looking for in this tender: Junior Business Analyst (Gartner level 1) - works on small tasks or parts of a project, has a basic understanding of BA tools and techniques, good communication, eagerness to learn. Responsible for low-complexity tasks under close supervision and has limited decision-making authority. Document basic processes and simple requirements and create simple reports. Support more experienced BAs in workshops and stakeholder meetings. Business Analyst (Gartner level 2) - Works on clearly defined tasks within projects, handles moderately complex analysis, usually within a single business area, works under direction of Senior or Lead Business Analyst; receives guidance on priorities and methods. Limited to project-level stakeholders. Senior Business Analyst (Gartner level 3) - Leads BA activities across multiple projects or programmes (including strategic analysis); often covers multiple business domains, deals with high ambiguity and complex business situations, sets BA approach and advises others. Facilitates decision-making at senior stakeholder level. Coaches and mentors other BAs. Activities as per the BA above, whilst demonstrating a higher level of responsibility, complexity, autonomy, and influence. Lead Business Analyst (Gartner level 4) - Focused on Strategic alignment and team leadership. Leads BA Activities across Enterprise-level initiatives, multiple projects, and strategic programs. Align requirements with strategic and technical roadmaps. Define BA standards, governance, and best practices. Manage and coach BA team members. Act as key liaison between business and technology leadership. Project Management: Project Management in the Digital function at Thames Water leads one or multiple projects depending on its size and scale of complexity. A project manager is a professional responsible for planning, organizing, and overseeing the execution of a project from start to finish following the Thames Water delivery framework/methodology. They ensure the project meets its goals within the agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality standards, and resources. Key Roles: Project Support Office role (Gartner Level 1): A Project Support Office provides the administrative, logistical, and coordination backbone that keeps programmes/ projects running smoothly. It supports project managers, teams, and sometimes entire programmes by ensuring consistency, documentation control, reporting, and governance. Junior Project Manager (Gartner Level 1 or experience in supporting / PMO roles): A junior project manager assists with planning, execution, and monitoring of projects to ensure they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. Works as part of a project team / leads on a small workstream as part of a larger project. Project Manager (Gartner Level 3): responsible for planning, executing, and delivering projects on time, within scope, and within budget. They coordinate teams, manage risks, and ensure that project outcomes align with organisational goals. Leads the day to day management of a project, ensuring all activities are organised, monitored, and delivered to the required quality standards Senior Project Manager (Gartner Level 4): leads complex, high value projects and often oversees multiple project teams. They are responsible for ensuring delivery within agreed scope, time, cost, and quality constraints while aligning outcomes with strategic business objectives. Provides leadership, direction, and oversight for large or multiple projects, ensuring they meet organisational goals and deliver measurable results. They act as the primary point of accountability for senior stakeholders. Programme Manager (Gartner Level 5): oversees and coordinates multiple related projects to ensure they collectively deliver strategic organisational outcomes. They provide leadership, governance, and direction across a programme of work, ensuring alignment with business goals and successful delivery of benefits. Act as the primary point of accountability into senior stakeholders / Executives. Business Change: Business Change function helps to support and embed change when implementing technology change projects. It ensures effective transitioning of our business and stakeholders to a desired future state (such as adopting new systems / new approaches) to create value and integrate into business operations. The function includes taking a structured approach to managing change; ensuring awareness, willingness, capability and training to adopt change; understanding and tracking change impact; managing risks related to change implementation (including resistance and adoption barriers); delivering change interventions to office-based and field-based operational colleagues. Key Roles: Change Lead (Gartner level 3) Own and lead the change impact assessment for the project / programme Design, deploy and manage key change management deliverables such as the change plan, training needs assessment, communications plan and change readiness assessment Identify and collaborate with Change Analysts (and Champions within each business area), building a strong internal network for change Build and maintain strong relationships with external and internal teams to ensure alignment on goals and solicit feedback from stakeholders involved and impacted by the change Undertake targeted pre-change activities including stakeholder mapping, change impact and communication, engagement and training plans Undertake change transition activities (e.g. user acceptance) Identify and collaborate with sponsor, programme manager, project team to manage risks (threats and opportunities) and issues regarding ability to adopt new ways of working Work closely with the change areas to make sure we map out the change impact and dependencies Manage change to scope, time and budget within agreed tolerances or escalate changes accordingly Senior Change Analyst (Gartner level 2) Support more complex change and engagement activity per the needs of the Change Strategy and Change Plan Prepares for and co-ordinates change workshops Co-ordinates communications and engagements in delivery of the Change and Communications Plans Co-ordinates training requirements Provides support in terms of monitoring, measuring and reporting change Tracks and assures change benefits All other activities per the Change Analyst (below) Change Analyst (Gartner level 1) Supports the Change Lead to conduct change impact assessments and stakeholder analysis Supports the development and delivery of the change strategy, change plan and activities Creates and delivers essential change communications and training materials Understands initial readiness for change across impacted teams Tracks change readiness and adoption metrics Facilitates workshops and feedback sessions where interventions are needed Works closely with the impacted teams to ensure the change impact is mapped and dependencies highlighted Identifies and escalates risks and issues that would impact the adoption of the change Communications Lead (Gartner level 3) Provides change narrative for communications and engagements Uses the Change Plan, Communications Plan and Communication Framework to develop a compelling change narrative for regular communications and engagements related to the project or programme Monitors and measure the effectiveness of the communications and rapidly evolve the communication/engagement approaches Delivers change communications interventions - e.g. briefings, newsletters, webinars, internal social media, workshops Interfaces with other Change and Communications roles to enable alignment Creates content to embed key messaging at programme and portfolio level aligned to overall company Purpose, Priorities and Values Training Lead (Gartner level 3) Understands training needs through stakeholder engagement, role analysis, and impact assessments (provided by Change Lead and Change Analysts) Owns the relationship and works closely with Thames Water Learning & Development team Drives the production of the training elements - per the training needs analysis - to meet the programme or project timescales Ensures quality and effectiveness of learning and alignment with standards Engages with the business to develop and agree training plans Monitors training uptake and works with business stakeholders to ensure targets met Identifies additional training needs (after go-live) and provides suitable training solutions Works with subject matter experts (SMEs) and vendors to create training materials (e.g. eLearning, videos, user guides, classroom courses) Organises, manages and supports the delivery of training sessions Gathers feedback and continuously improves training effectiveness Trainer (Gartner level 2) Develops and designs face to face training in order to meet agreed learning objectives Prepares training content to ensure maximum training effectiveness Deeply understands the training content (ie 'the solution') and the business process / context Personally delivers training to end users - ensuring the training meets learning objectives Evaluates the training delivered and follows up to understand training effectiveness Please note that that deadline for asking for access to the PSQ & submitting of the PSQ is 24th February 2026, at 5 pm. ### Lot Information Project management services Options: The initial period of the contract will be four (4) years. Thames Water may then elect at its sole discretion to extend this Agreement in whole or in part by 4 further periods of one year each (or for any alternative periods) to taking it to a total of 8 years from the Effective Date. Renewal: Thames Water retains the right to extend the framework in whole or in part for up to four one year extensions. Business Analyst Services Options: The initial period of the contract will be four (4) years. Thames Water may then elect at its sole discretion to extend this Agreement in whole or in part by 4 further periods of one year each (or for any alternative periods) to taking it to a total of 8 years from the Effective Date. Renewal: Thames Water retains the right to extend the framework in whole or in part for up to four one year extensions. Change Management Services Options: The initial period of the contract will be four (4) years. Thames Water may then elect at its sole discretion to extend this Agreement in whole or in part by 4 further periods of one year each (or for any alternative periods) to taking it to a total of 8 years from the Effective Date. Renewal: Thames Water retains the right to extend the framework in whole or in part for up to four one year extensions. Trainers Options: The initial period of the contract will be four (4) years. Thames Water may then elect at its sole discretion to extend this Agreement in whole or in part by 4 further periods of one year each (or for any alternative periods) to taking it to a total of 8 years from the Effective Date. Renewal: Thames Water retains the right to extend the framework in whole or in part for up to four one year extensions. ### Planning Information Include information on the scope of the engagement, the locations and dates of any events, and instructions for submitting expressions of interest and clarification questions. The PSQ stage is expected to be issued via SAP Ariba from mid-January to mid-February. It will be open to all and used to shortlist up to 6 suppliers for each lot. The lots will be broken to Project management, Business Change and Business Analysis functions. The shortlisted suppliers will be invited to ITN stage which will which is expected to be held from the end of February to the end of March. Written responses will be used to shortlist to top three suppliers who will invited to present their solutions at Clearwater Court in Reading in early April. These presentations will be scored and used in the final evaluation along with commercial submissions and the ITN written responses to award each Lot to a preferred partner. The initial period of the contract will be four (4) years. Thames Water may then elect at its sole discretion to extend this Agreement in whole or in part by 4 further periods of one year each (or for any alternative periods) to taking it to a total of 8 years from the Effective Date. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/057695-2026 | | Notice type | UK6 - Contract Award Notice | | Procurement type | Framework | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Selective | | Procurement method details | Competitive flexible procedure | | Tender suitability | SME | | Awardee scale | Large | | All stages | Planning, Tender, Award | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 18 Jun 2026 | | Submission deadline | 17 Feb 2026 | | Future notice date | 20 Jan 2026 | | Award date | 17 Jun 2026 | | Contract period | 29 Jun 2026 - 29 Jun 2030 | | Recurrence | 2034-12-01 | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Complete | | Lots status | Complete | | Awards status | Pending | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED | | Locality | READING | | Post town | Reading | | Postcode | RG1 8DB | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLJ South East (England) | | ITL 2 | TLJ1 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | | ITL 3 | TLJ16 Berkshire West | | Local authority | Reading | | Electoral ward | Thames | | Westminster constituency | Reading Central | | Delivery location | TLI London, TLJ South East (England) | ## Supplier | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Number of suppliers | 1 | | Supplier names | NORTH HIGHLAND | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 75 - Administration, defence and social security services - 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security ### Codes - 72220000 - Systems and technical consultancy services - 72240000 - Systems analysis and programming services - 72250000 - System and support services - 72260000 - Software-related services - 72300000 - Data services - 75112000 - Administrative services for business operations - 79410000 - Business and management consultancy services ## Release History - 18 Jun 2026 at 14:39 - Award - UK6 - Contract Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/057695-2026 - 3 Feb 2026 at 10:26 - TenderUpdate - UK4 - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009321-2026 - 28 Jan 2026 at 16:55 - Tender - UK4 - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007761-2026 - 16 Jan 2026 at 10:38 - PlanningUpdate - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003776-2026 - 8 Jan 2026 at 09:02 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/001267-2026 ## Documents - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/057695-2026 18th June 2026 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009321-2026 3rd February 2026 - Tender notice on Find a Tender - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007761-2026 28th January 2026 - Tender notice on Find a Tender - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003776-2026 16th January 2026 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/001267-2026 8th January 2026 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ## Notice URLs - https://forms.office.com/e/YAWD6HJ84K - https://northhighland.com/ - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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