Scottish Water has gone out to tender with a contract for security system maintenance worth an estimated £5 million.

The water company is looking to partner with an alarm maintenance industry specialist supplier to ensure that its operational water assets are protected throughout its operating area. The principal objectives of the framework are:

To implement a pan-Scotland annual maintenance regime for Scottish Water operational assets which have been installed with the Sentinor ‘WATERCRESS’© security system (consisting of analyser/control panel; seismic sensors) and matched non-system sensors.

To implement a pan-Scotland annual maintenance regime for a range of operational assets, including:

specified operational assets which have been installed with the Cortech DATALOG© 5/MV security management system.

operational assets which have been installed with conventional intruder detection systems (consisting of control panel (mostly Honeywell ‘Galaxy’©) and matched sensors).

operational assets which have been installed with a variety of fence-mounted perimeter intrusion detection systems; predominantly, Southwest Microwave Intrepid II.

operational assets which have been installed with an electronic access control system (Honeywell Win-Pak).

Scottish Water also wants to implement a pan-Scotland reactive maintenance response for the systems which would see that all faults on the security system equipment covered by the contract are attended to within a specified time of the breakdown being reported and, where achievable, rectified within the same period.

The water company is looking for suppliers who can demonstrate prior practical multi-site experience of conducting security system maintenance. Ideally, they should also have experience of working within the water services industry, preferably with practical experience of working over live water assets.

Scottish Water currently operates on a systems platform that is not integrated internally or linked to the supply base. It is therefore seeking to address this through the possible utilisation of the supplier’s system and IT capabilities.

Contract term is 8 years and the time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 12 October 2023.

Click here to access the tender documentation.