Scottish Water has gone out to tender with a range of contracts worth up to £224 million and running for up to 12 years - including a £150 million contract for its rural delivery programme, a £80 million contract for the supply of civils materials and a £72 million contract for the supply of PE pipes and fittings.
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The contracts are all part of the requirements to support the water company’s delivery of its Quality & Standards IV Capital investment programme for the regulatory period 2015 – 2021. All of the contracts run for an initial four period with a range of extension options for a further eight years.
The £150 million Rural Framework contract consists of a number of contractors across 8 lots - this tier of the supply chain will be designed to support the four main capital investment delivery routes for the next regulatory period.
Total estimated spend for the three rural programmes over the first regulatory period is in the region of £90 million to £150 million. The contracts will cover non-infrastructure above-ground works, infrastructure below-ground works, Distribution Operation and Maintenance Strategies and Treatment Operation and Maintenance Strategies. Subject to satisfactory performance, the contracts could also be extended into the next regulatory period, worth a further estimated £90 million.
The contracts are divided into geographical lots for Shetland Isles, Orkney Isles, Western Isles, Highlands, Argyll and Bute, Dumfries and Galloway, Borders and Grampian.
Scope of the work will include the construction of works associated with water network assets, equipment removals, installations for minor mechanical, electrical and instrumentation refurbishment and maintenance projects, delivering upgrades and maintenance of sewer pipelines, manholes, CSO chambers, outfalls and pumping stations and related sewer infrastructure works.
An £80 millon contract will cover the supply of civils materials across the country for aggregate, asphalt, concrete, mini-mixed concrete and recycled aggregate. A maximum of 20 firms will be appointed to the framework. A separate £12m framework covers the supply of precast pipes and fittings from 2015-2026.
Deadlines for firms to register their interest in the contracts range from 21st to 28th May. Registered readers with Waterbriefing (registration with Waterbriefing is free) can access the tender documents in full at : http://www.waterbriefing.org/tenders
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