Thames Water has published a Periodic indicative Notice (PIN) encouraging third parties to submit proposals for solutions covering water resources, demand management or leakage services for consideration in the Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP24) process.
The Notice, which relates to an initial resources position statement (IRPS) issued by Water Resources South East (WRSE), enables interested third parties who are interested in responding to the IRPS with solutions for Thames Water specifically.
All parties who express an interest to respond will be treated in accordance with the principles within Thames’ Bid Assessment Framework (BAF), which is available at www.thameswater.co.uk/baf.
The water company has provided further details about its future supply requirements in its Water Resources Management Plan 19 and associated Water Resources Market Information tables.
This information is complemented by the initial resource position statement published by WRSE, which describes Thames Water’s future supply requirements as in WRMP19 with further forecasting concerning the effects of climate change and environmental requirements amongst other factors.
Water supply proposals
Thasmes Water said it is open to proposals for supply options to fill its projected supply demand deficit as it plans for the future. The WRMP process is a strategic process to plan demand management and leakage solutions over an 80 year period to meet its future needs rather than a procurement exercise for these solution types.
If a third party proposal for a demand management or leakage service is a product or service that the utility is already delivering, Thames said it is “open to being contacted to inform (its) market awareness.”, However, to be considered for delivery, third parties should contact Thames Water Utilities when it next engages with the market for this specific need.
Any suppliers who want to respond to the PIN must request an initial pre-qualification survey.
Thames added that proposals which are “clearly beneficial, robust and which are smaller in terms of volume of water delivered (Ml/d)” are more likely to be considered for inclusion in its programme sooner in the planning process.
Click here to access the Periodic indicative Notice