Skip to content
Aperlena
Language:

2025 ERA External Regulatory Assurance (2025 0191- WS3202969892)

Open Contract notice No deadline published
Watch this tender

We email you if the deadline moves or a correction is published. Free. Log in

Summary

Machine-generated summary

This tender seeks an external assurance provider in three lots: Lot 1 Technical Assurance, covering engineering design, optioneering, risk registers, data quality and consistency with PR24 submissions; Lot 2 Cost and Efficiency Assurance, covering cost estimating, benchmarking, change control and checking Stata code and Excel packages; and Lot 3 Financial Assurance, covering PR29 financial data tables, feeder models and financial model controls. The buyer is Anglian Water, in the United Kingdom. Estimated value and submission deadline are not stated in the available information. The procedure details and eligibility criteria are not specified in the source text.

Description

Lot 1 - Technical Assurance . Engineering design and technical scope . Optioneering and option-selection processes . Alignment between need, scope, solution and outcomes . Deliverability and programme milestones . Asset-management evidence and decision-making . Risk registers and technical risk assessments . Scope changes and change-control processes . Data lineage, data quality and evidence trails . Consistency with PR24 submissions, previous regulatory submissions and agreed assumptions . Environmental, statutory and regulatory drivers . Dependencies between schemes, programmes and strategic plans . The completeness, accuracy and robustness of technical evidence used to support Board and regulatory submissions Lot 2 - Cost & Efficiency Assurance . Cost-estimating methodologies . Unit rates and cost build-up assumptions . Comparative cost assessment and benchmarking including a range of econometric techniques . Cost drivers and explanatory factors . Risk, uncertainty and optimism-bias allowances . Scope-cost alignment . Allocation between base and enhancement expenditure . Cost escalation and inflation assumptions . Change control and change-control processes . Including, but not limited to checking Stata code and excel packages . Material movements from PR24 assumptions or other established benchmarks . Evidence quality and auditability . Consistency between costs, identified needs, benefits and expected outcomes Lot 3 - Financial Assurance . PR29 financial data tables and associated working papers . Anglian’s use of Ofwat’s financial model . Feeder models used to populate Ofwat’s financial model . Financial model controls, including version control, formula integrity, change control, access control, input checks and output reconciliations . Documented processes for preparing, reviewing, approving and submitting financial information . Data lineage from source systems, working papers and feeder models through to final submission tables . Consistency between financial data tables, the financial model, business plan narrative, Board papers and assurance statements . Financial assumptions, including inflation, interest rates, dividend assumptions, gearing, PAYG, RCV run-off and other relevant financial parameters . Financeability assessments using both actual and notional capital structures . Calculation and presentation of relevant financial ratios . Economic and company-specific scenarios, including the treatment of the CPI/RPI wedge where relevant . Sensitivity testing and downside scenarios . Evidence supporting key assumptions and judgements . The adequacy of commentary explaining material movements, uncertainty, judgement and links to the wider plan

Official source

Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

Always verify details on the official notice.

Last verified against Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) 2 months ago

Documents on Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) (English)

View the official notice

More from this buyer

Full buyer profile

3 open tenders right now

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Business services - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
Venesky Brown Ltd 73 €16.6M Sep 2026
Lorien Resourcing Ltd 24 €6.4M Aug 2026
Harvey Nash Limited 23 €3.8M Aug 2026
Promar International Ltd 21 €111,300 Sep 2026
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd 19 €4.4M Aug 2026

Based on 1576 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

Similar tenders

Market context

Avg. open tender · Business services
€24,820,691
6,437 open across Europe right now 82% below sector average
Buyer track record on Aperlena
5 notices tracked · 0 awarded

Never miss a tender like this

820 new notices in Business services in United Kingdom in the last 7 days. Get an email when new ones appear. Free.

Set up my alert
Source

Keyboard shortcuts

Read a list without reaching for the mouse. The shortcuts stay quiet while you type in a field.

j
Next result
k
Previous result
Enter
Open the result
n
Next page
p
Previous page
c
Compare this result
s
Shortlist this result
/
Jump to the search box
?
Show these shortcuts
Esc
Close