United Utilities has gone out to tender with an AMP7 contract for a motors and Variable Speed Drives repair framework worth an estimated £13 million.
Motors, drives and Variable Speed Drives are vital to United Utilities and are process critical in many water and wastewater treatment activities.
The contract is being tendered in two separate Lots:
Lot 1 Repair of Motors (£11,000,000)
Scope of the contract includes works predominantly associated with repair, rewind, testing and overhaul of LV Electric Motors. The contractor will be expected to provide these services on a planned and reactive basis.
The scope of services includes:
- Initial visit to site
- Provision of strip and reports to determine the reasons for equipment failure
- Loading of motors onto the transport and the transport of the motor to the place of repair if not in-situ
- Cleaning of equipment
- Rewind, repair and overhaul services
- Provision of re-engineered parts
- Repair, reassembly and testing of motor
- Inspection and testing of the motor, load testing facilities required
- Commissioning of equipment.
Lot 2 Repair of Variable Speed Drives (£2,000,000)
- Initial visit to site
- Investigation to identify failure and root cause analysis
- Repair on site would be the preferred method if applicable
- If not possible the removal of the VSD, loading of VSD onto the transport and the transport of the VSD to the place of repair if not in-situ
- VSD, inspection and report
- Repair, reassembly and testing of VSD
- On site repair
- Transport of and off-loading of the VSD from the place of repair back to site
- Re-installation and testing of the VSD
- Provision of documentation and certification in accordance with the terms of this Technical Specification
- Provision of product and technical support including spare parts availability
- Stock of spares
- Stock of lifecycle spares for Siemens, Schneider and ABB drives
Scope of services covers the repair of Variable Speed Drives (VSDs) used on company sites throughout United Utilities’ operational area. VSD original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) include ABB, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Vatech, Heenan/FKI, Telemecanique, Siemens and Schneider.
Initial contract term is 4 years with the option to extend for a further 4 years in 12 month increments.
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 3:00pm on 16 February 2022 – click here to access the tender documentation.
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