Yorkshire Water has gone out to tender with a wide-ranging IT Partner Framework contract for AMP7/8 worth an estimated £125 million.

The water company is seeking expressions of interest for the establishment of a Framework Agreement for IT services including:

• Application development
• Infrastructure
• strategy and architecture
• SAP / ERP
• Testing
• Data science

Yorkshire Water says the framework agreement will be the primary route for selecting suppliers for the delivery of IT consultancy and support services for the duration of the agreement.

Successful suppliers will work alongside Yorkshire Water Services (YWS) to design, develop, test, implement, support, and maintain a range of business applications, infrastructure solutions, and a range of other related areas.

The work will cover all areas of IT project delivery, support, and system integration for both new and legacy systems. 

Suppliers securing framework agreements will become part of the Technology & Enterprise Change (TEC) partner pool with suppliers potentially being aligned to and being approved to deliver projects in the following capability areas:

Infrastructure - technologies including routers, firewalls, databases, client systems, security services, network management, servers, switches, cabling, storage, backup technology, network infrastructure, telecoms and connectivity.

SAP - Services related to the design, development, integration, maintenance, and support of a range of existing and future applications related to the SAP and asset management solution suite.

Application Development and Maintenance - Services related to the design, development, integration, maintenance and support of a range of existing and future applications used by the three core YWS business areas including Customer (retail & wholesale), Operations (clean, waste and asset management) and Corporate (central functions, data and shared technologies e.g. middleware and a variety of other IT systems). Services will also be required for systems used by future business units which do not yet exist.

Data Science - Services related to statistics, tools, programming, data manipulation, data visualisation, machine learning, deep learning, model deployment, scenario analysis, forecasting / prediction, planning and Azure.

Testing - Services related to test leadership, test execution and test environment demand & release management.

Strategy and Architecture - Strategy, consultancy and advisory services.

Estimated total value of the contract, which will run for an initial period of 60 months, with up to three further annual extension options, is £125 million.

Yorkshire Water is inviting potential suppliers to express an interest in participating in the tender via email by 24th September. Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 28 September 2021 - an Invitation to Qualify (ITQ) Round 1 document must be completed by all bidders and returned by 28th September 2021.

Click here to access the tender documentation.

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