Published date: 18 January 2021

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 29 January 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Water distribution and related services - 65100000

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West, Wales

Value of contract

£1

Procurement reference

tender_262781/918936

Published date

18 January 2021

Closing date

29 January 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 February 2021

Contract end date

30 April 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Competitive quotation (below threshold)

The buyer selects a group of potential suppliers to invite to tender.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Review the use of triangulation methods by water companies during the 2019 Price Review to identify good practice. This should produce a set of recommendations to share with the industry. CCW can assist by liaising with companies to obtain information about their approach to triangulation where these are not publically available. A number of interviews with company research managers and Ofwat should also be carried out to understand the advantages and limitations in the use of triangulation at the last price review.

ICF produced a set of principles and a triangulation framework for CCW as part of a review in 2017 . These will need to be updated or replaced, depending on the results of the good practice review.

The main output from this work will be a report that should cover:

- How different companies used triangulation at PR19 to arrive at their business planning decisions - this should look to identify why some companies did well and others struggled in using triangulation
- Whether triangulation should be used for all aspects of business planning, or only for specific elements (i.e. Performance Commitments & Outcome Delivery Incentives).
- Identify good practice and why this is good practice
- The elements of good practice that should be adopted by the industry as a whole.
- Ongoing triangulation - how companies can put in place frameworks now to capture their Business As Usual (BAU) and community engagement as part of a rolling cycle of engagement.
- An update to the ICF/CCW principles and framework to create a new good practice triangulation framework ahead of PR24
- If there are any innovations in triangulation from other sectors that could be used in the water sector.

More information

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About the buyer

Contact name

Consumer Council for Water

Address

1st Floor, Victoria Square House, 1 Victoria Square
Birmingham
B2 4AJ
England

Email

procurement@ccwater.org.uk

Website

https://www.ccwater.org.uk/