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Design Automation Platform

Severn Trent Water Limited
West Midlands
Direct award
28 July 2026 to 30 April 2029

The platform must provide deterministic, standards-driven engineering automation for water assets, enabling rapid generation of comparable design options with auditable logic and structured data outputs. It must be a proven, commercially available solution ready for immediate deployment without custom development or vendor-led configuration. The system must integrate with existing Common Data Environments and support independent use by utility staff for capital planning and regulatory compliance.

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Awarded value: £510k; As published
Published: 17 March 2026; Find a Tender
Awarded: 28 July 2026; TRANSCEND SOFTWARE INC
Contract length: 33 months; Ends 30 April 2029

What the buyer is asking for

Provision of a commercial off-the-shelf SaaS platform for automating preliminary design and engineering workflows for water and wastewater treatment infrastructure.

Lifecycle

Publishedon Find a Tender
17 March 2026
Contract awardedto TRANSCEND SOFTWARE INC
28 July 2026
Contract starts
28 July 2026
Contract ends
30 April 2029

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7.9× the typical CAD software contract (£64k).

Cite this contract

Link: https://bidskim.com/tender/354573/design-automation-platform
Buyer reference: Doc3025057952
Open contracting ID: ocds-h6vhtk-066bbd
Source: Find a Tender
Last checked: 12 October 2026

Severn Trent Water Limited. Design Automation Platform. Contract award, 17 March 2026. BidSkim, https://bidskim.com/tender/354573/design-automation-platform (accessed 12 October 2026).