Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13bd2-3e2e-7025-b162-4df9e64ed5c0/alternative-water-services-aws-tender closed GB open procedure Suitable for SMEs # Alternative Water Services (AWS) Tender [Southern Water Services Limited](https://tendernation.io/buyers/southern-water-services-limited) Estimated value £160,000,000 Published 1 Jul 2026 Deadline Closed 30 Jul 2026 ## Who can bid - Buyer says suitable for SMEs The buyer ticked “suitable for SMEs” on the notice. Anyone can still bid. - Buyer says suitable for VCSEs The buyer ticked “suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises” on the notice. - Split into 5 lots You can usually bid for just the lots you can deliver. - Sets up a framework Winning a place does not guarantee work: contracts are awarded later as call-offs, and the list usually stays closed for years. - Open procedure Anyone can submit a full tender; there is no shortlisting stage. [More contracts for small businesses and VCSEs](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/for-small-businesses) ## About this tender About Southern Water: Southern Water is responsible for providing, maintaining, and operating water supply and distribution services covering the counties of Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and providing services for the maintenance, repair, renewal, or improvement of services forming Southern Water’s water distribution systems. The area in which we supply water and treat wastewater covers a total of some 10,530km² and extends from East Kent in the east, through parts of Sussex, to Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in the west. Southern Water supplies drinking water to approximately 2.5 million households and treats and recycles wastewater from more than 4.7 million households across Sussex, Kent, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Each day we supply 535 million litres of drinking water from our 90 water treatment works along 13,870 kilometres of water mains to our customers’ taps. We take nearly 70 per cent of the water from underground sources, aquifers, 23 per cent from rivers and seven per cent from storage reservoirs. Each day we also treat and recycle 0.7 billion litres of wastewater at 368 treatment works after it is pumped through a sewer network of 39,600 kilometres. Scope Overview: The supply of an appropriate form of alternative water services of an approved quality and quantity provided to, or made available to, affected customers within a defined response time. The total service is made up of bulk water tankering, haulage, supply of bottled water, bottled water delivery and bottled water station management. This service is to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year across Southern Water’s operational areas of Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. - Lot 1 Managed Service Provider (All services across Lots 2,3,4 and 5) - Lot 2 Bulk Water Tankering & Haulage - Bulk clean water tankering - Planned & emergency response - Pumping system to inject & fill into the network - Water quality compliance, testing, sampling & certification - Full traceability & evidence of compliance - Telematics & GPS tracking - Optional extra credit for haulage, driver resource & traction only haulage - Lot 3 Supply of Bottled Water - Purchase of palletised bottled water - Storage & warehousing of bottled water - Planned & emergency haulage, transport & delivery - Water quality compliance, testing, sampling & traceability - Lot 4 Bottled Water Delivery - Collection of bottled water from Southern Water stores, vehicles or contractors - Distribution of bottled water direct to customer doorsteps - Proof of Delivery system - Water quality & hygiene compliance - Planned & emergency response - Lot 5 Bottled Water Stations (Traffic Management) - Traffic management at bottled water stations and other incident locations - Manned security services & guarding - Welfare, portaloo’s, shelter & portable tower lighting - General waste management - Site assessment, technical drawings & preparation Read full description ## CPV classification Mineral water Still mineral water Water-tender vehicles Natural water Drinking water Water tanks Water containers Water transport services Drinking-water distribution Tankers Tanker trailers Water pumps Transport services (excl. Waste transport) Road transport services Bottles Pallets Parcel delivery services Homedelivery of provisions Courier services Post and courier services Parcel transport services Postal services related to parcels Miscellaneous water transport support services Water distribution and related services Traffic control services Road traffic-control equipment Traffic lights Traffic monitoring services Welfare vehicles Waste and rubbish containers and bins Waste-tip management services Refuse skips Lighting equipment and electric lamps Source Find a Tender (UK) · Notice ocds-h6vhtk-0606a5-2026-07-01T09:52:30+01:00 [View official notice](https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/ocds-h6vhtk-0606a5-2026-07-01T09:52:30+01:00) Never miss a tender like this again Get AI summaries, deadline alerts and a bid pipeline for tenders matched to your business. Free to start. 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