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Awarded · ResultStage · award

Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat)

Ofwat Innovation Fund delivery partner 2025-30

UtilitiesCPV 65000000
Value£18,400,000
Awarded
Published15 May 2025
RegionNationwide

£18,400,000 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded
Nesta

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Who to contact
Procurement@ofwat.gov.uk
+44 1216447534

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£18.4mtotal contract value
median £302k
this tender£0£19.9m

This is a large award for Public Utilities — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 826 valued Public Utilities tenders in our corpus.

The brief

We are looking to appoint delivery partners to support Ofwat in delivering the Ofwat Innovation Fund and aspects of the Water Efficiency Fund in AMP 8 (the asset management planning period which runs from April 2025-March 2030).

This is a continuation of the existing Innovation Fund which was established in 2020 and the introduction of a new Water Efficiency Fund (WEF) of which this Invitation to Tender is concerned with only two aspects: the Water Efficiency Lab (WEL) – an annual competition similar to the Innovation Fund but focused solely on water efficiency, and the evaluation of the Water Efficiency Campaign (WEC), which is the other part of the two components that make up the WEF.

We are looking for delivery partner support in three distinct but linked areas: Lot 1: Core Innovation Fund and WEL delivery Lot 2: Implementation programme Lot 3: Evaluation

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

OfwatRegulator registrations
Ofwat Innovation Fund delivery partner 2025-30

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-049d6e
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
021944-2025
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