Client Side Commercial Assurance

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    "name": "ANGLIAN WATER SERVICES LIMITED"
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  "date": "2025-12-19T15:13:04Z",
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    "description": "Anglian Water seeks Client Side Commercial Assurance Services to strengthen governance, cost control, and compliance across capital and operational programmes. These services will ensure transparency, regulatory readiness, and defensible commercial decision-making.\nScope of Services\nCost Verification - Validate incurred and forecast costs for accuracy and compliance.\nRisk Management - Identify and mitigate commercial risks affecting cost, programme, or compliance.\nContract Compliance - Ensure adherence to contractual terms and governance.\nValue-for-Money Assessment - Confirm expenditure delivers optimal outcomes.\nChange Control - Assure structured management of scope, cost, and programme changes.\nProgramme Control - Monitor alignment with milestones.\nMarket Intelligence \u0026 Benchmarking - Compare costs and supplier performance using internal/external data.\nRegulatory \u0026 Business Plan Support - Assist with cost structures and regulatory submissions.\nSupply Chain Oversight - Ensure Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers comply with obligations.\nExpected Outcomes\nIncreased confidence in cost management and governance.\nImproved risk identification and mitigation.\nTransparent assurance reporting for executive and regulatory stakeholders.\nVerified value-for-money across diverse projects.\nConsistent, defensible cost forecasting and benchmarking.\nEssential Requirements\nProven experience in commercial assurance within regulated infrastructure sectors.\nKnowledge of NEC and similar contract forms.\nAbility to work across multiple programmes and stakeholders.\nStrong analytical, reporting, and commercial skills.\nExperience in CAPEX, OPEX, carbon modelling, and regulatory business planning.\nKey Activities\nReview contractor proposals, payment applications, and variations.\nIndependent risk reviews and mitigation strategies.\nDevelop KPIs, benchmarking tools, and cost databases.\nSupport audits, dispute resolution, and change management.\nAnalyse market trends, inflation indices, and regional cost variations.\nProvide whole-life cost modelling and business plan support.\nEnhance capability through continuous improvement of tools and processes.\nReporting\nEach project requires a structured report including:\nIntroduction \u0026 Purpose\nRequest Summary\nStakeholders\nMethodology\nFindings\nActions \u0026 Recommendations\nNext Steps\nReports must be clear, evidence-based, and include visuals where appropriate.",
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          "startDate": "2026-04-30T00:00:00+01:00"
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          "description": "This Agreement  covers broader commercial assurance services, including but not limited to: \na)\tCost verification - the process of validating that incurred and forecast costs are accurate, justified and compliant with contractual requirements.\nb)\tRisk management - the identification, assessment and mitigation of commercial risks that could impact cost, programme, compliance, or value delivery across the capital programme.\nc)\tContract compliance - ensuring that commercial activities adhere to the terms, conditions and governance requirements set out within the contract and related policies.\nd)\tValue-for-money assessment - evaluating whether expenditure delivers optimal outcomes relative to cost, quality, and time.\ne)\tChange control - the structured management and assurance of changes to scope, cost, programme, whilst ensuring that change has been properly authorised and managed in line with contractual obligations.\nf)\tProgramme control - monitoring and assuring the alignment of commercial activities with programme milestones\ng)\tMarket intelligence and benchmarking - using internal, external data and industry benchmarks to assess the competitiveness of costs and rates and, potentially, supplier performance.\nh)\tRegulatory and Business Plan support  - including assessing investments and evaluating cost structures in line with regulatory standards for efficiency and transparency; and providing support  for addressing cost-related challenges.\ni)\tSupply chain oversight - assuring the Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers operate in compliance with policies, contractual obligations and industry standards."
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          "description": "Anglian Water may elect at its sole discretion to extend this Agreement in whole or in part by 3 further periods of one year each or for any alternative periods and not expiring later than 8 years from the Effective Date"
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    "submissionMethodDetails": "https://esourcing.scanmarket.com/SupplierRegistration/NewSupplier?eventId=844307\u0026ccsum=cabe229e81f5081a83689282fc1334c7\nPlease see the relevant RFI and RFP events using the above link. Please note, the RFI is stage 1 of this process.",
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    "tenderPeriod": {
      "endDate": "2026-01-23T23:00:00Z"
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    "title": "Client Side Commercial Assurance",
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      "currency": "GBP"
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