Thames Water has gone out to tender with an AMP8 contract for a Digital Twin of Water Treatment Works (WTW) worth an estimated £2 million.
The water company is seeking a qualified bidder to provide a Water Treatment Works Digital Twin (WTW DT) solution as a proof-of-concept at its Chingford WTW.
It is expected that the solution will enhance Thames’ operational efficiency, streamline processes, and improve overall productivity allowing it to be implemented at key facilities across the estate.
The DT will identify gaps in efficiencies and recommend process interventions to reduce these gaps, with an aim of delivering an ROI for the proof-of-concept.
The procurement covers the development of a digital twin, as a proof-of-concept project, including:
- Optimise efficiency across the whole site - source to pumps. Optimisation will be in the form of recommendations for operators to conduct on a day-to-day basis, driving down costs in areas such as power and consumeables
- The digital twin solution will mimic the physical asset to allow what-if analysis, running hypothetical scenarios to understand how the physical treatment work will operate under certain conditions
- The tool should integrate advances in innovation and machine learning to help Thames in becoming more proactive: identifying changing trends that wouldn't be possible manually and outputting a preventative response to mitigate emerging events
- The digital twin should be adaptable so that it can be tailored to help solve site-specific challenges, example at Chingford algae and pH control
- The product should be able to assist in the quantification of benefits it delivers enabling ROI calculations to be drawn which will inform scalability
Initial contract term will be three years (within which break clauses may apply after the proof of concept phase and at any roll out phase) and then with the option to extend annually to a maximum of overall duration of five years.
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 17 May 2024 – click here to access the tender documentation.
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