Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- United Utilities Water Limited · Utilities
- Supplier
- Cascade Infrastructure Limited
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Sector
- Construction & mining machinery · Tunnelling machinery (CPV 43123000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 050621-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date14 Aug 2025
- Published21 Aug 2025Published 7 days after the contract date
Description
Works and services for delivering the HARP DPC Project are set out in the ‘additional information’ section. Project agreement - The CAP will be appointed under a bespoke project agreement with UU, the term of the project agreement will be 25 years, plus a construction period. Independent Technical Advisor - Assurance for UU and customers under the project agreement will be provided by an Independent Technical Advisor (ITA) and Approved Assurer (AA). The ITA and AA will be appointed through a separate procurement process. Planning - Planning submissions were made by UU for the whole of the HARP DPC Project and UU has received planning permissions from the relevant local planning authorities (subject to section 106 planning obligations). As such, UU did not remove any of the initial six tunnel sections from the scope of the HARP DPC Project during the procurement process.
About the supplier
Cascade Infrastructure Limited: every public contract they have won.