Yorkshire Water is seeking supply chain interest and input ahead of going out to tender with a £45 million contract for its telemetry system upgrade – including registering their interest in attending a market engagement event proposed for w/c 23rd September to discuss the project in more detail.
The water company has issued a Periodic Indicative Notice to inform the market of an upcoming procurement opportunity aimed at transforming and enhancing Yorkshire Water’s Operational Technology (OT) platforms and processes.
The key focus of the procurement is to replace the existing legacy telemetry system and develop a unified Situational Awareness ecosystem.
The current telemetry system gathers data from thousands of remote assets in near realtime, converting the data into actionable business intelligence. The processed data is displayed in the utility’s operational control room and accessed remotely by key operational users. The existing systems are used extensively by over two thousand employees and support partners within the organisation. The telemetry system is approaching the end of its life within the next five years.
The procurement seeks to engage one or more partners to supply, integrate, and commission a new central telemetry system and data historian which must be compatible with the existing Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) at the edge and provide real-time data acquisition, remote monitoring, management, and control of utility-class assets.
Yorkshire Water is anticipating a multi-vendor or joint venture approach - however, the software supplier will be required to take the lead role, nominate, and appoint suitable partners, and assume overall responsibility for delivery.
Key requirements include:
- Replacement of legacy MC2000 telemetry system and associated capabilities.
- Compatibility with existing edge RTU infrastructure & communications using Modena protocol.
- High availability, redundancy, and cyber-secure with 24x7x365 support services.
- Scalable architecture ready for expansion, including cloud-readiness or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
- Migration / configuration of existing 10,000 Process Schematics (mimics) with approximately 270,000 data points and associated metadata.
- Use of open standards, protocols e.g. WITS, and APIs to enable integration with other business systems e.g. SAP & ESRI.
- Extensibility for AI and future analytical asset modelling.
Suppliers are invited to register their interest by contacting David Archer at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Estimated date of publication of a formal contract notice is 28 October 2024.
Click here to access the PIN documentation
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