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Utilities, water & wastewater · Dynamic Market
Water Utility Civils & Infrastructure Dynamic Market
Water companies are delivering the largest capital programmes in their history under AMP8, and the Procurement Act 2023 has replaced the old utilities qualification systems with Dynamic Markets. This example shows how a water company’s civils and infrastructure market runs on the eSourcing Data platform: open to new applicants every day, assessed against published criteria, and feeding compliant call-off competitions.
Permanently open under the Procurement Act 2023, no closing date, apply any time.
Categories in this market
Conditions of participation
Typical published entry criteria for a market of this kind, proportionate, transparent and assessed the same way for every applicant.
- Financial standing proportionate to the category and typical call-off value
- Health, safety and CDM competence with sector accreditations (e.g. safety-scheme membership)
- Insurance at published levels for the relevant category
- Relevant delivery experience, including regional SMEs on smaller lots
- No applicable exclusion grounds; declarations kept current through membership
How the market runs
- Permanently open. Unlike a framework, a Dynamic Market never closes to new entrants. Suppliers can apply to join at any point in its life, there is no missed deadline.
- Assessed within a reasonable time. Applications must be assessed against the published conditions of participation within a reasonable period, membership is an operational process, not a one-off gate.
- Every tender reconsiders applicants. Before each competition, pending applications must be considered. New suppliers are never locked out of upcoming work the way they are on a closed framework.
- Operated end to end. Application triage, compliance monitoring, call-off competitions, award and transparency notices and reporting are run by the eSourcing Data team on the live platform.
For suppliers
What membership gets you
- Apply once, stay eligible for every tender in your category, no closing date
- Clear, published entry criteria and a decision within a defined assessment window
- Confidential member-only competitions with structured Q&A and audit-trailed evaluation
- Compliance documents held once and reused across every bid
For buyers
What operating it gets you
- A qualified, continuously refreshed supply chain for the whole capital programme
- Membership and award processes that meet PA23 utilities duties by design
- Run call-off competitions in days with evaluation, moderation and award notices built in
- Full audit trail for regulators and challenge defence