Awarded contract

PRO004561 - Revenue Assurance Services

Details

Value
11,661,668
Topic
Data collection and collation services
Published
6 December 2023

Tender description

The purpose of this tender is to enter into a Framework Agreement with a number of Revenue Assurance Service providers. Working with the team at UUW, Suppliers will be responsible for providing data for Revenue Assurance Services, facilitating an industry leading solution design for processing customer data. The Revenue Assurance framework will principally enable UUW to work with a number of key Suppliers on Revenue Assurance projects. There are a number of current initiatives that would need to be supported along with any new ad-hoc initiatives that UUW wish to explore. Suppliers would also be requested to provide on a quarterly basis details on new initiatives and innovation that may be of interest to UUW within the scope of the Framework. Lot 1: PRO004561 - Revenue Assurance Services Provide routine, Cleanse and Append and Residency Validation Services. Provide up to date market innovation in the Cleanse and Append and Residency Validation area to enable continuously improving processing of data to optimise results. • The processing of residential records to validate and improve the accuracy of core customer data. For individuals this includes correcting customer’s names, addresses, dates of birth, and contact information. • Address matching using the providers own data sources to validate the customer address • Return of enriched data for processing to the billing system to update customer accounts. • Other applicable Cleanse and Append Services Cleanse and Append General Assumptions • Only domestic customers will be included in the data cleanse and append activities • Only name and date of birth will be cleansed via the one off / cyclical cleanse and append solution • We may require the de-duplicating of records in the processing • Both ‘Primary’ and ‘Associate’ customers flagged as ‘show on bill’ will be subject to cleanse and append activities • To mitigate any adverse customer service impacts as a result of enrichment to UUW core data supplier’s solutions must include sufficient logic to determine high confidence matches. • Supplier solutions need to be configurable to reflect any specific UUW business rules where data conflicts may be presented as a result of matching routines Lot 2: PRO004561 - Revenue Assurance Services Provide ad-hoc Occupier Identification (Void Management) Services as required. Provide additional ad-hoc Revenue Assurance Services as required. The processing of all void properties to establish an occupier, so that these occupants can be contacted and billed for the charges at that property. The provider should be able to accurately identify who is occupying a given address using a range of their own data sources. All potential occupiers should be scored with a single occupier returned to UUW along with a rating, so UUW has confidence to contact the customer. As per published Scope of Services,

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date1 September 2023
  2. Completed: Award published6 December 2023
    Current notice

About the buyer

United Utilities Water Ltd is the regulated water and wastewater utility for the North West of England, and buys through its own commercial department. Contract notices are advertised through the Central Digital Platform. Suppliers list themselves on the Achilles Utilities Vendor Database to be found for opportunities outside formal notices. Procurement runs under the Procurement Act 2023, the regime introduced in February 2025 for regulated utilities. Category managers within the commercial department oversee markets such as construction and engineering. Large infrastructure schemes, including the Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme, go to tender as multi-party contracts.

£434bn was the total UK public sector procurement spend in FY 2025/26.

Over the past 5 years, most of United Utilities Water Ltd's contract awards have been in architectural and engineering services, IT services and waste, cleaning and environmental services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 72314000 · Data collection and collation services

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