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Portsmouth Water Limited

Laboratory Water Testing

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 85111820
Value£2,000,000
Deadline3 Feb 2025
Published13 Dec 2024
RegionNationwide

£2,000,000 — stated in the notice

Timeline
Published 13 Dec 2024ClosedCloses 3 Feb 2025
Who to contact
Paul Swaine
paul.swaine@portsmouthwater.co.uk
+44 2392499888

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£2.0mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Portsmouth Water Limited has published 17 notices across all categories, and 33% of its awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

To provide a collection and analysis service of samples for portable water to comply latest Water Supply (water quality) regulations.

To provide Portsmouth Water with a courier services, sampling bottles, crates and analytical services.

To be accredited at all times to ISO17025 and DWTS.

Samples shall be transported daily to the supplier’s laboratory.

Full temperature records for all Samples shall be required for Samples which are stored or transported in line with ISO 5667 2-8°C.

The Service Provider shall maintain a full chain of custody for Samples that are transported and shall confirm, upon receipt, which Samples cannot be analysed.

The Tenderer shall report all analysis results within the required quality and regulatory timeframes.

The Tenderer shall provide a monthly report detailing where SLA's have and have not been met.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

To provide a collection and analysis service

To provide a collection and analysis service of samples for portable water to comply latest Water Supply (water quality) regulations.

02

To provide Portsmouth Water with a courier

To provide Portsmouth Water with a courier services, sampling bottles, crates and analytical services.

03

Samples shall be transported daily to

Samples shall be transported daily to the supplier’s laboratory.

04

Full temperature records for all Samples shall

Full temperature records for all Samples shall be required for Samples which are stored or transported in line with ISO 5667 2-8°C.

05

The Service Provider shall maintain a full

The Service Provider shall maintain a full chain of custody for Samples that are transported and shall confirm, upon receipt, which Samples cannot be analysed.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named in obligation language, 1 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

FSC / PEFC (timber chain of custody)says mustCertification & assessment schemes
The Service Provider shall maintain a full chain of custody for Samples that are transported and shall confirm, upon receipt, which Samples cannot be analysed.
To be accredited at all times to ISO17025 and DWTS.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04c816
Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
040327-2024
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