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Design Automation Platform

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Deadline

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April 15, 2026

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Original Tender Description

Severn Trent requires a commercial, off-the-shelf SaaS platform for automating preliminary design of water and wastewater treatment infrastructure. The current manual process is inefficient. The platform must have domain depth, native support for water/wastewater assets, standards-driven behavior, governance, auditability, long-term use capabilities, and rapid time-to-value. It must be immediately usable without custom development, generate designs in hours/days, and allow repeatable use without vendor dependency. Outputs must be design-grade, structured engineering data with traceable assumptions. It must be a proven, commercially available product, ideally with prior adoption by UK water companies.

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Requirements & Qualifications

26 requirements across 5 categories

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Mandatory (1)

Compliance (5)

Technical (18)

Financial (1)

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS1

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MANDATORY EXCLUSION GROUNDS1

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ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS5

--Must be a commercial, off-the-shelf SaaS platform.

--Must be a proven, commercially available product, not in early development or awaiting first deployment.

--Must have demonstrated successful results with other water companies within the UK.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITY REQUIREMENTS18

--Capable of automating preliminary design for water and wastewater treatment infrastructure.

--Must combine all required capabilities within one solution (not separate, disconnected modules).

--Domain Depth & Embedded Engineering Knowledge: Engineering standards, heuristics, and design rules must be explicitly encoded within the platform.

--Native support for water and wastewater treatment assets, including process-driven layouts, unit process sequencing, equipment sizing, and regulatory or code-driven constraints, without custom modelling or scripting.

--Standards-driven and deterministic behaviour: Design behaviour governed by explicit engineering standards and schemas, producing consistent, explainable results.

--Governance, Auditability & Long-term Use:

--Auditable design history: Persistent, reviewable history of design inputs, assumptions, changes, and outputs.

--Separation of design logic from deliverables: Engineering logic independent of output formats for reuse across projects, asset types, and downstream tools.

--Proven owner-operator adoption: Designed for use by asset owners or utilities, not solely by consultants or contractors.

--Time-to-Value & Immediate Usability:

--Operational on day one without custom development.

--Hours-to-design, not weeks-to-prototype.

--Repeatable use without vendor dependency: End users can execute new projects and iterations independently.

--Design Outputs and Data Requirements:

--Design-grade, structured engineering data: Machine-readable data representing process units, equipment sizing logic, and interdependencies.

--Traceable assumptions and documented logic: Explicit, inspectable assumptions and rules supported by in-platform technical documentation.

--Multi-option, directly comparable designs: Produce multiple complete preliminary design options with a consistent structure for direct comparison.

--Must integrate seamlessly with core utility systems where required (e.g., Common Data Environment).

FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS1

--No specific financial requirements mentioned in the provided text.

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