FA08-31 Commercial Services

Buyer
NORTHUMBRIAN WATER LIMITED
Value
£120,000,000
Closes
3 November 2026
Where
Pity Me, the North East
Type
Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)

In plain English

Northumbrian Water is setting up a framework to buy commercial and project management services for major water infrastructure and investment programmes across their two operating regions. They need consultants to provide contract-level support, project leadership, cost management, procurement advice, and risk management across a £120 million spend.

What the buyer wants

• Provide commercial services at contract level (Core): commercial administration, NEC contract management, project support, cost validation, estimating and planning • Provide commercial services at portfolio/programme/project level (Enhanced): commercial leadership, cost and financial management, procurement strategy, risk and change management, reporting and stakeholder management • Support major projects and provide specialist advisory services across both Northumbrian Water and Essex & Suffolk Water regions

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Likely requirements

Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.

This is a £120 million framework designed for established consultancies or large delivery teams with significant commercial and project management experience; small sole traders or businesses without commercial project delivery track record will struggle to win and deliver across multiple regions.

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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