Reinstatement Services
- Buyer
- THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED
- Value
- £126,000,000
- Closes
- 25 November 2026
- Where
- Reading, London
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Thames Water wants to appoint reinstatement contractors to restore roads, pavements and verges after its clean water network work, including repairs, mains renewals and meter installations, across three operational regions. The estimated value is £126,000,000, and the North London lot alone covers about 35% of the reinstatements. Applicants must first request access to and submit a pre-qualification questionnaire by 25 November 2026 at 12 noon.
What the buyer wants
• Full end-to-end reinstatement work: site assessment, backfilling, sub-base preparation and final surface courses, carried out to the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (NRSWA) and local highway authority specifications, including dynamic street works permitting to avoid Section 74 overstay charges. • A point of presence within the Thames Water region, ideally in the operational areas being bid for. • Integration with Thames Water's technology to manage each reinstatement job through its lifecycle and provide near real-time management information, plus regular weekend working.
Lots
- North London
- South London
- Thames Valley and Home Counties
Requirements
What could rule a small business out (our reading of the notice, written with AI): The notice requires a point of presence within the Thames Water region as a minimum and integration with Thames Water's digital systems, and the scale of the North London lot covering all work-streams could put it beyond most small businesses, although the notice does not state a turnover or insurance threshold.
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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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