We require water companies to produce bid assessment frameworks in order to support bids, encourage innovation and give confidence to potential third party providers in the water bidding market. Appendix 9 of our 2019 price review final methodology sets out our expectations and the principles that water companies must comply with in their bid assessment frameworks.
Water companies must submit draft copies of their bid assessment frameworks to us alongside their business plans in September 2018. We will then review them under our markets and innovation tests as part of our review of the plans and may request companies to resubmit. After we publish final determinations on company business plans in 2019 we expect water companies to publish their final bid assessment framework.
To ensure these frameworks are accessible to potential third party providers, we will provide links to them below.
| Water company | Water | Bioresources |
| Affinity Water | Bid Assessment Framework | |
| Anglian Water | Bid Assessment Framework | Bid Assessment Framework |
| Bristol Water | Bid Assessment Framework | |
| Dŵr Cymru | Bid Assessment Network | Bid Assessment Network |
| Hafren Dyfrdwy | Bid Assessment Framework | |
| Northumbrian Water | Bid Assessment Framework | Bid Assessment Framework |
| Portsmouth Water | Bid Assessment Framework | |
| SES Water | Bid Assessment Framework | |
| Severn Trent Water | Bid Assessment Framework | Bid Assessment Framework |
| South East Water | Bid Assessment Framework | |
| Southern Water | Bid Assessment Framework | Bid Assessment Framework |
| South Staffordshire Water | Bid Assessment Framework | |
| South West Water | Bid Assessment Framework | Bid Assessment Framework |
| Thames Water | Bid Assessment Framework | Bid Assessment Framework |
| United Utilities | Bid Assessment Framework | Bid Assessment Framework |
| Wessex Water | Bid Assessment Framework | Bid Assessment Framework |
| Yorkshire Water | Bid Assessment Framework | Bid Assessment Framework |