United Utilities has gone out to tender with an AMP7 contract to supply acoustic, hydrophone and lift & shift loggers worth an estimated £12.9 million.
The water company is looking to put a framework agreement in place to cover the procurement of various types of acoustic and hydrophone loggers (accelerometer style loggers combined with core network comms, SIMS & Cellular APN) with the functionality required to support United Utilities’ Leakage Strategy.
Data loggers form part of United Utilities’ strategy to deliver on its target of reducing leakage by 15%.
An initial 72,000 permanent loggers have been installed onto United Utilities’ network and are being used to reduce the company’s leakage levels. The tender covers the procurement of the remaining phase of the permanent acoustic logger installation program as well as the procurement of Lift and Shift style acoustic loggers.
The tender will cover the potential to install up to a further 30,000 permanent loggers which will be made up of either accelerometer or hydrophone loggers.
United Utilities said is anticipated that the split will be 80/20 in favour of the accelerometer style logger, although this is subject to change depending on the selected DMAs that require logging.
The tender will also cover the replacement of loggers within the companies Lift & Shift fleet which currently totals around 2100 loggers.
Initial contract is term 3 years with up to 5 further years in extension options.
United Utilitiesis looking to appoint up to three suppliers to the framework agreement.
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 12 October 2021 – click here to access the tender documentation.
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