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WINEP Peatland Requirements

Details

Buyer
United Utilities Water Ltd
Supplier(s)
Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Lancashire County Council
Value
£2,300,000
Duration
4 years
Topic
Environmental issues consultancy services
Published
14 April 2026
Source
uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

United Utilities (UU) has several regulatory obligations across multiple work packages, including: • Colour Investigations (Regulatory Date: March 2027) • Net-Zero Enhancement (Peatland Restoration) (Regulatory Date: March 2030) • WINEP Restoration Pipeline (Regulatory Date: March 2030) • Hodder Stocks Colour Phase 2 (Regulatory Date: March 2030) By awarding this contract to Lancashire County Council and Lancashire Wildlife Trust, United Utilities can leverage their existing landowner relationships, historic data already available, and seek out appropriate grant funding. Award splits are as follows: 2 x Direct Awards with Lancashire Wildlife Trust (LWT) and Lancashire County Council (LCC) LWT £1,183,886.19 LCC £1,064,716.98 ## Contract award ## Contract award

Timeline

  1. Award published14 April 2026
    Current notice
  2. Award date14 April 2026
  3. Contract expiry date31 March 2030in 4 years

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

  • 90713000 · Environmental issues consultancy services

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