Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-07-20
Buyer: United Utilities Water Ltd
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Innovation partnership
CPV classification: 34152000 | 35113000: Safety equipment | 35113100 | 35125100: Sensors | 38421100
Submission deadline: 2020-08-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The procurement process will follow the innovation partnership procedure and is intended to encourage innovative businesses to help United Utilities tackle key efficiency, safety and customer challenges in innovative ways.
The United Utilities Innovation Lab will be a 12-week programme and successful candidates will be co-located and work closely with United Utilities to test, develop, improve and demonstrate their product/service in live customer environments. Leading to opportunities for contractual relationships businesses will be invited to put forward proposals in the following key areas;
More information about this opportunity can be found at the following address www.unitedutilities.com/innovation
United Utilities want to tackle our key business challenges so we can provide better, more cost effective services for customers. That means building relationships with businesses who share our vision, ambition and appetite for innovation.
The 12-week programme will be run in collaboration with corporate innovation specialist L Marks and successful candidates will be mentored by senior United Utilities business leaders and get access to test and demonstrate your product/service in live customer environments businesses will be invited to put forward proposals in the following key areas:
More information about this opportunity can be found at the following address www.unitedutilities.com/innovation
At application stage, candidates will only pass through to the ideas stage if they are of good standing and are willing to agree to one of two commercial relationship options detailed in the application form.
At Ideas stage, the top 20 highest scoring applicants will pass through to Pitch Day (providing their score is 40 % or above).
At Pitch Day, the top eight highest scoring applicants will be awarded a place in the innovation lab (providing their score is 75 % or above).
At both ideas stage and pitch day, applicants can be rejected if their idea has no innovative aspects to it, is not likely to be of benefit or relevance to UU or it would not be possible to develop the idea substantially during the time available in the lab.
Interested economic operators must confirm in their application that they have the capacity to attend the innovation lab in order to pass through to the ideas stage.
The purpose of the lab is to co-create to enter into a supply agreement (minimum). In order to pass through to the ideas stage, applicants must confirm in their application that they are willing to enter into a supply agreement.
There are additional options as part of the programme that applicants should be able and willing to offer UU, should the Lab be considered by UU to be a success:
UU may specify certain requirements as to the legal form of lab participants, for example successful economic operators may be required to form a limited company and/or to transfer their business (including any relevant intellectual property rights) into the limited company prior to entry into the lab.
UU will be working with L Marks in the delivery of this procurement process. Documents including a step-by-step guide and how to use the portal have been included within the documents folder and more information can be found on the website at www.unitedutilities.com/innovation

Eligibility requirements: Interested economic operators must be of good standing to pass through to the ideas stage.