United Utilities is seeking supply chain engagement ahead of a future procurement exercise for scheduling and metering software – including Meet the Supplier sessions over the next two weeks.

The water company is currently undertaking a review of its billing platform and future scope requirements. United Utilities is conducting a market engagement exercise to understand the capability and capacity of the scheduling and metering tools in the market in order to inform any future billing platform procurement strategy.

United Utilities is looking set up Meet the Supplier sessions which will be scheduled to take place over a period of 2 weeks commencing 11th May 2026. over 2 weeks - weeks commencing 11th May 2026 and 18th May 2026.

Prior to invitation to a Supplier session, all interested parties will be required to complete an Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA). Upon receipt and acceptance of the NDA, supplier sessions will then be made available.

Engagement deadline is 22 May 2026 - supplier sessions will be held in United Utilities offices in Warrington or via Teams. Contact email provided for the engagement is: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

United Utilities’ detailed objectives and requirements of scheduling and metering as follows:

Objectives

Consolidate field operations into a single platform

Reduce fragmented tools and manual processes with one system managing all FMO, proactive and reactive jobs, from booking through to close.

Improve appointment efficiency

Reduce failed visits and wasted field resource through better pre-appointment information, skill-matched scheduling and real-time engineer comms.

Create end-to-end visibility across the meter lifecycle

Give operations, field teams and management a real-time view of jobs status, asset health and SLA performance - with automated workflows to support jeopardy scenarios.

Automate/ Improve payment and performance management

Reduce manual effort from third-party payment validation and processing by generating accurate, evidence-backed payment information.

Current metrics for appointments and installations are:

• Service Appointments, circa 1 million per year
• Cancelled Appointment circa 170,000 per year
• New Meter installations circa 215,000 per year
• Cases Completed circa 500,000 per year

Key Requirements

• M001 Planning & Scheduling

             The ability to book, manage, and dispatch planned and reactive jobs across multiple appointment types (Eg installations, exchanges, meter reads, audits), with appointment optimisation performed against defined parameters. Including ability for customer to selfserve.

• M002 Appointment Management

             The capability to manage the complete appointment life cycle, from scheduling through completion, including proactive in day jeopardy identification and management. Including ability for customer to self-serve.

• M003 Field Workforce Management

             The ability to manage engineer availability, skills and real-time job status - including twoway comms with the handheld device in the field for multiple work types (Eg operative reinstatement and supervision).

• M004 Asset & Meter Lifecycle

             The ability to track a meter from installation through to decommission, including all activity, reads and changes against the asset record and the ability to manage asset health.

• M005 Data & Billing Accuracy

             The ability to ingest, validate and output meter read accuracy to support billing - and water demand initiatives.

• M006 Third Party Management

             The ability to manage contracted third parties within a single platform, with enforced data segregation and validated outpayments (E.g. automated reconciliation and exception management).

• M007 Integrations & Automation

             The ability to integrate with external systems (e.g. Billing, Street Works, video and photograph capture, handheld devices) and automatically automate scheduling, alerts and workflows based on configurable rules.

• M008 Customer Management

             The ability to manage customer cases, including complaints, enquiries, and operational issues, from initiation to resolution.

United Utilities has set out data location and processing restrictions, saying that interested suppliers should note the mandatory requirement that all personal data processed under the contract is hosted, stored, accessed, and otherwise processed solely within the United Kingdom. No personal data should be transferred, accessed, or processed outside the UK, the company says.

United Utilities is stipulating that interested suppliers must implement and maintain appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure compliance with the requirement and provide evidence of such measures when requested by the company.