The Environment Agency has awarded its South East Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation framework contract worth an estimated £10 million
The Environment Agency needs to maintain its Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM), Navigation and other sites and assets. Services to be provided under the contract include delivery of mechanical and electrical preventative and reactive maintenance, repair, overhaul, breakdown, general engineering services, refurbishments and project work. The work is needed for a range assets, including pumping stations, weirs, sluice gates, telemetry outstations and other water control structures.
The framework agreement consists of a single lot covering routine planned preventative maintenance, provision of a 24 hour 365 day reactive works service and project works.
Main place of performance is predominantly in counties in the south east England, together with London and Greater London.
The framework has been awarded for an initial period of 2 years with options to extend for up to a further 2 years.
Integrated Water Services Ltd, ECS Engineering Services Ltd and Amalgamated Construction Ltd have all been awarded a place on the framework, three of 11 firms who bid for the work.
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