CWQM PSQ Template
- Buyer
- Southern Water Services Limited
- Value
- £130,500,000
- Closes
- 9 November 2026
- Where
- Worthing, the South East
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Southern Water Services is seeking a supplier to provide continuous water quality monitoring systems and services across their network, as required by the Environment Act 2021. This is a major contract worth approximately £130.5 million to monitor water quality in real time.
What the buyer wants
• Supply and install continuous water quality monitoring equipment at multiple locations across Southern Water's network • Provide ongoing maintenance, calibration, and technical support for monitoring systems • Deliver data collection, analysis, and reporting services to ensure compliance with environmental regulations
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
This contract is far too large and specialist for most small businesses to win alone; you would need significant capital, established relationships with water companies, advanced technical expertise in water quality monitoring systems, and the ability to deliver across a large geographic area. Only consortium bids or very large established engineering firms are realistic contenders.
How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
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