Yorkshire Water has now moved to the ‘call for competition stage’ of their AMP7 clean water network repair and maintenance services contract which is worth an estimated £800 million and is inviting interested suppliers to contact them direct.
The water company went out to tender two weeks ago following a successful market engagement exercise which ran earlier this year. Yorkshire Water said it has so far taken a significant number of expressions of interest since launching the first supplier market day in February.
The utility company has also included a specific ‘innovation’ tender lot that is designed to complement the company’s existing forward-thinking approach to delivering customer focused services and provide a procurement route to scale up market-ready new technologies.
The water company is currently inviting prospective bidders to register their interest by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Yorkshire Water envisage that the contract will be tendered in five lots which includes an innovation marketplace which is designed to support businesses and promote innovative solutions.
The Lots are:
Lot 1: Emergency Reactive Work (from 2 to 48-Hour Priority) (£160 million)
Lot 2: Planned Reactive Work (from 48-Hour to 84-Day Priority); (£360 million)
Lot 3: Developer Services Work (£120 million) This includes clean only, clean and waste new connections, clean only main laying and non-standard work, for example, clean and waste mains diversion for the purposes of developer work.
Lot 4: Metering Work (£160 million) This includes the procurement and storage of meters, domestic and non-domestic meter replacement, installation and repair, domestic and non-domestic internal plumbing work and meter reading.
Lot 5: Clean R&M Innovation Marketplace — The utility company is looking to create a marketplace for innovative solutions for repair and maintenance on its clean water network.
Initial contract term for Lots 1 to 4 is 4 years, with a further 4-year extension option. The initial contract period for Lot 5 is 3 years, with a further extension option of up to 5 years (3 + 2 years).
The innovation marketplace will be designed with the intention to generate competition amongst successful bidders and make it easier to introduce new technologies and innovative working processes to the water utilities sector.
Time limit for receipt of requests to participate is 20th April 2020 – details are available by contacting Yorkshire Water at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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