Published date: 3 September 2020

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 26 June 2020, 11am

Contract summary

Industry

  • General management consultancy services - 79411000

Location of contract

West Midlands, London

Value of contract

£117,762

Procurement reference

PROC.01.0660

Published date

3 September 2020

Closing date

26 June 2020

Closing time

11am

Contract start date

2 July 2020

Contract end date

28 September 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

The scope of this project encompasses three elements:

Developing a series of scenarios covering economic and social/behavioural changes arising from COVID-19

Identifying which aspects of water company businesses may be impacted (positively or negatively) in these scenarios, and assessing these impacts on water companies.

Projecting forward the scenarios and potential impacts on water companies to test the challenges and opportunities to deliver against the PR19 settlement under these scenarios.

The aim of this work is to understand in what situations water companies would be placed under greater stress due to the impact of COVID-19, what opportunities the new situation might present to them and what the overall effect in each considered scenario would be. This includes both financial elements as well as meeting outcome objectives. It should capture the range of options that water companies have available to them to respond to those scenarios, identify where there may be countervailing benefits or opportunities to companies, and highlight where regulation is a constraint. This work can then be used to understand areas to monitor in the future.

More detail on each element is provided in the ITT: it is envisaged that the first two elements will need to be carried out in parallel in order to meet the project timeline and for both to contribute to the third element.

The project will be overseen by an Advisory Group comprising of Ofwat, Water UK and three or four water companies. Each member of the Advisory Group may provide different feedback. It is anticipated that the Supplier will need to manage potential differences in views between Ofwat and Water UK and, where they remain, reflect those differences in the final report. The Supplier is not required to align with the position of either party but to present its own views which may or may not mirror those of the parties.


More information

Additional text

For further information,please contact procurement@ofwat.gov.uk


Award information

Awarded date

1 July 2020

Contract start date

2 July 2020

Contract end date

28 September 2020

Total value of contract

£117,762

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Frontier Economics Limited

Address

Mid City Place
71 High Holborn
London
WC1V 6DA

Reference

Companies House number: 03752719

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No


About the buyer

Address

Birmingham
Birmingham
B54UA
England

Email

mailbox@ofwat.gov.uk