Southern Water has awarded a wide-ranging AMP8 framework contract for General Mechanical and Electrical Services with an estimated value of £240.72 million in total.
The water company went out to tender with the contract in November 2022 – Southern Water was looking to put a framework in place for multiple suppliers to provide General Mechanical and Electrical Services (GMES)
The contract has now been awarded in the following Lots :
Lot 1 Mechanical Services – General - planned and reactive mechanical engineering services (£171.44 million
Lot 2 Specialist Access services - including confined space / rescue, working at height, rope access, diving access and zoned areas. (£17.12 million)
Lot 3 Electrical Services - repair and maintenance services of electrical machinery, apparatus and £15.92 million
Lot 4 EAWR - Periodic Inspection and Testing (PIT) for fixed electrical installations and Class 3 and 4 for lightning protection, including DSEAR and zoned areas, and Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) for all portable equipment (£8,16 million)
Lot 5 Lightning Protection - covers the testing of all lightning protection. Class 1 and 2 Lightning protection installed on high-risk assets require inspection and testing carried out every 11 months (£2.48 million)
Lot 6 Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) - covers supply, maintenance and install for GRP tanks and fabrications required in order to operate wastewater, water and sewerage assets (info N/A)
Lot 7 Fabrications & Welding (£6.56 million)
Lot 8 Hire of Inverter Drives & Soft Starts (£1.92 million)
Lot 9 Repair, Maintenance and supply of replacement Inverter drives & Soft Starts - covers provision of legacy parts and equipment, repair works, maintenance and new installations on Inverter Drives, Soft Start and VSD control panels in order to operate wastewater, water and sewerage assets £10.56 million)
Initial contract term when first put out to tender was four years with further extension options available.
Southern Water has now appointed the following suppliers to the framework, with the companies being awarded one or more Lots:
- Ar-Control Systems Ltd;
- Atac Solutions Ltd;
- Bridges Electrical Engineers Ltd;
- Civil Safety Training & Rescue Ltd;
- D R Clark Services LLP;
- Ecogenr8 Ltd;
- Econotech Ltd;
- Eriks Industrial Service Ltd;
- G.A. Electrical Services (Mechanical & Electrical Contractors) Ltd;
- Gel Engineering Ltd;
- Glenfield Invicta;
- Horizon Specialist Contracting Ltd;
- Inverter Drives Southern Ltd;
- Jacopa Ltd;
- J.R. Pridham Services Ltd;
- Knowlton And Newman Ltd;
- Mechanica Utilities Ltd;
- Mid Kent Electrical Engineering Company Ltd;
- Mts Cleansing Services Ltd;
- Quantum Controls Ltd;
- Rescue 2 Ltd;
- Rhames Ltd;
- Ross-Shire Engineering Ltd;
- Unitspark Ltd;
- Xylem Water Solutions Uk Ltd;
- Z-Tech Control Systems Ltd
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