Scottish Water has gone out to tender with a contract for asset inspection, testing and portfolio management worth an estimated £140 million.
The water company has a large asset base used to deliver services to customers which requires suppliers to provide project specific asset inspection and testing services for both above ground and underground assets.
Depending on the number of inspections and required timescales this may be a rolling programme to deliver a fixed number each year, or a one-off programme.
Scottish Water’s wide-ranging asset list includes:
- Civil/ structural pipelines
- Chemical dosing tanks
- Boreholes
- WW & W Pipebridges WW &W Pipebridges WW Secondary Treatment Chemical Dosing
- Water Supply Boreholes
- WW Inlet Works
- WW Pumping Mains
- WW Pumping Stations
- Strategic Infrastructure
- WW sludge centres water pumping (pipework)
- Strategic infrastructure tunnels/ aqueducts
- Filtration (sand filters)
- Treated water storage (prestressed/post-tensioned assets, water towers)
- Chlorine contact tanks
- Water pumping (civils)
- WW sewer structures
- Raw water storage
The utility intends to undertake regular inspections of its asset base in line with Scottish Water’s Asset Management Strategy.
The inspections, which will be undertaken at regular intervals, will be used to understand the condition of assets, which in turn will be used to better understand service risks to customers and to prioritise future Investment in the assets. Over time they will be used to understand rates of deterioration and inform predictive analytical systems which will be used to inform future decisions.
Site-based apps for data collection will be used where appropriate - as part of Scottish Water’s digital transformation plan the use of sitebased apps will be reviewed and updated to align with the company’s future asset management platforms.
For the reporting and management of inspection data, the supplier will be required to prepare asset inspection reports confirming asset condition and remaining asset life, together with ensuring that inspection data can interface with the water company’s asset management data storage systems.
The supplier will also be required to make high level recommendations for future work accompanied by a high level cost estimate as follows:
- Do nothing
- Monitor or undertake further detailed Inspection works
- Repair / refurbish the asset (based on inspection observations)
- Replace
Contract term is 8 years with two further annual extension options.
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 1st July 2022 – click here to access the tender documentation.
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