OpenStage · tender 19 days to close

Flow Derivation Reviews

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 73200000

Value£42k

Deadline15 Sept 2026

Published27 Aug 2026

RegionNationwide

Timeline

Published 27 Aug 202619 days leftCloses 15 Sept 2026

Who to contact

Isobel.Phillips@environment-agency.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit

To apply for this opportunity you must submit your quotation meeting the requirements detailed in the Request for Quotation (RFQ) attached. Your response must be sent to Isobel.Phillips@environment-agency.gov.uk by [17:00 on [15.09.2026. If you have any clarification questions linked to this opportunity or the procurement process please submit these via email to Isobel.Phillips@environment-agency.gov.uk. Please note that, unless commercially sensitive, both the question and the response will be circulated to all tenderers.

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context

£42ktotal contract value

median £66k

this tender£0£561k

This sits in the lower-middle of the Research & Development band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Environment Agency publishes Research & Development work continuously — 194 notices, roughly one every 3 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

23% of Environment Agency’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

Which is the argument for getting on the list rather than winning this one. The incumbent is rarely the last winner — it is the roster. See the retention odds by category →

Match for your company

Sign up free to see how well this tender matches your company — the score, the signals that align, and where the gaps are.

The brief

This project will undertake flow derivation reviews at 13 selected Environment Agency gauging stations to assess the accuracy, reliability and suitability of existing flow derivation methods.

The reviews will examine current methodologies, identify limitations and uncertainties affecting the quality of derived flow records.

Where justified by the available evidence, improved flow derivation methods and ratings will be developed, including the derivation of a modelled high-flow rating for one specified station if sufficient.

What it takes to bid this

5–9 daysof bid-team effort

£3.4k–£6.2kat typical UK bid-team rates

Compressed window — start the same week

Typical UK bid effort for the under £100k band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

Show at bidComparable references / case studies
Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

Short a bid team? Get matched and we’ll help you scope the bid →

Buyer intelligence

Make the case to bid

Reveal who to approach at Environment Agency, and generate a go-to-market strategy from their news, accounts and people.

Free to start. Named contacts come from published notices; the strategy is generated from the buyer’s news, accounts and people.

Deep dive · beta

The full intelligence dossier

Our agent reads Environment Agency’s accounts, hunts live signals, finds the people who decide — and hands you a bid strategy plus a go-to-market influence plan, including what your team should post this week. You approve every paid step.

Five included while we’re in beta, and the agent asks before it spends on any paid step.

Source & provenance