FA08-32 Low Complexity MEICA
- Buyer
- NORTHUMBRIAN WATER LIMITED
- Value
- £20,000,000
- Closes
- 25 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 (a pre-approved list of contractors it can call on) with an estimated value of £20 million. Appointed firms will carry out maintenance, renewal, refurbishment and like-for-like replacement work on water and wastewater treatment works, reservoirs, pumping stations, and related pipework, mostly smaller projects from around £10,000 upwards. Mechanical, electrical and control work is covered, along with the civil engineering needed to support it.
What the buyer wants
• Pass CDM competency assessment, including PC and PD competency. Failing this could lead to the framework offer being rescinded. • Work to NWL's Engineering Specifications, the latest edition of the Civil Engineering Specification for the Water Industry (CESW), MEICA Asset Standards, and Electrical Contractor Competency Requirements, and follow Process Safety and health, safety and wellbeing requirements. • Carry out site investigation and surveys, design where appropriate, and supply, install, test, commission and hand over mechanical and electrical systems, while showing innovation and helping to reduce carbon.
Lots
- Mechanical- Northern Operating Area
- Electrical- Northern Operating Area
- Complete mechanical and electrical turnkey projects- Northern Operating Area
- Mechanical- Southern Operating Area
- Electrical- Southern Operating Area
- Complete mechanical and electrical turnkey projects- Southern Operating Area
Requirements
What could rule a small business out (our reading of the notice, written with AI): The notice makes passing CDM competency assessment (including PC and PD competency) a condition of the framework offer, and requires compliance with several named NWL and industry standards, so any business that cannot evidence these, and the specialist mechanical, electrical and control capability the lots require, would most likely be ruled out.
Always check the tender documents.
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.
Where to apply
The notice doesn't name a website for bids. Ask the buyer how to apply, using the contact on the official notice.
Questions about this tender? Email the buyer at AMP8Procurement@nwl.co.uk.
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- FA08-27 - Advisory Services (DPC/SIPR), NORTHUMBRIAN WATER LIMITED, £100,000,000, closes 10 November 2026
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