Scope
Reference
LSHTM-2025-082
Description
LSHTM / SCIF has an ongoing requirement for support in developing, delivering and monitoring safe water projects in East Africa. Safe Water Projects - To provide safe clean water to communities bringing defunct boreholes back into use within an ongoing management regime involving local stakeholders, developing production wells, rainwater harvesting, water filtration systems, water catchment protection and other related nature-based climate mitigation and adaptation measures. In addition, providing education and increasing awareness of how best to use and maintain the water sources, to drive hygiene and sanitation behavioral change in the local communities, with young people and in schools. This includes capacity building and providing socio-economic opportunities for communities and other beneficiaries of the SCIF infrastructure. All projects carried out must be scoped and co-created through on-going community engagement and effective outreach activities (e.g. Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) promotion, behavioral change campaigns, community training and mobilization). The projects will be undertaken in the East Africa block i.e. Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia.
Commercial tool
Establishes a framework
Contract 1. Safe Water Projects
Supplier
Contract value
- £3,000,000 excluding VAT
- £3,600,000 including VAT
Above the relevant threshold
Award decision date
20 January 2026
Date assessment summaries were sent to tenderers
20 January 2026
Standstill period
- End: 29 January 2026
- 8 working days
Earliest date the contract will be signed
2 February 2026
Contract dates (estimated)
- 2 February 2026 to 31 January 2030
- 3 years, 11 months, 27 days
Main procurement category
Services
CPV classifications
- 85322000 - Community action programme
- 45262220 - Water-well drilling
- 65100000 - Water distribution and related services
- 65111000 - Drinking-water distribution
Contract locations
- UK - United Kingdom
Information about tenders
- 3 tenders received
- 1 tender assessed in the final stage:
- 0 submitted by small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
- 0 submitted by voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)
- 1 supplier awarded contracts
- 0 suppliers unsuccessful (details included for contracts over £5 million)
Procedure
Procedure type
Open procedure
Supplier
Wateraid
- Public Procurement Organisation Number: PCLV-7677-MJVM
6th Floor 20 Canada Square
London
E14 5NN
United Kingdom
Email: FUNDING@WATERAID.ORG
Region: UKI42 - Tower Hamlets
Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): No
Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No
Supported employment provider: No
Public service mutual: No
Contract 1. Safe Water Projects
Contracting authority
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Public Procurement Organisation Number: PHBN-2917-QXQQ
Keppel Street,
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
Contact name: Paul Pester
Telephone: +44 02079272471
Email: paul.pester@lshtm.ac.uk
Website: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk
Region: UKI31 - Camden and City of London
Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government