Southern Water has awarded an AMP7 contract for network digitalisation sewer monitors worth an estimated £5. 486 million in total.
When the water company first went out to tender in early 2021 it said it was looking to “significantly and rapidly improve the visibility of the gravity wastewater network, commenting:
“We believe the new breed of low cost sewer monitors, now just starting to hit the market, presents a huge opportunity and positively changes the business case for mass deployment.”
Assuming that its business case assumptions could be be verified in summer 2021, Southern Water planned to install tens of thousands of low cost sewer monitors from October 2021 to March 2022 (up to 30,000 across Kent, East and West Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight), whilst deploying in parallel the associated analytics to make appropriate and effective use of the additional information to prevent sewer blockages developing into a pollution or flooding incidents.
Southern Water invited suppliers who were able to supply low cost (under £200 per unit) sewer monitors to bid for the work.
The water company were looking to appoint up to a maximum of seven companies to the AMP7 framework agreement. Out of the seven companies in the bidding, the following five companies have been awarded a place on the framework.
- Detectronic
- DMSLive
- H W M Water Ltd
- IETG Limited
- Metasphere Ltd
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