Ofwat has gone out to tender with a wide-ranging framework contract for support services including HR, FM, finance, IT, procurement, customer services and business support worth almost £10 million.
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has gone out to tender with a contract for End User Services worth an estimated £180 million.
Severn Trent Water has gone out to tender with a multi-million pound contract for the provision of water meter installation, maintenance and repair services, including customer interfaces.
United Utilities is starting to put the building blocks in place enabling it to carry out the direct procurement of large scale capital investment projects worth between £100 million to £500 million whole life cost.
Thames Water has awarded a contract for the supply of water efficiency product services and ad-hoc mailing and storage worth an estimated £5.9 million.
Anglian Water Group has gone out to tender with a contract worth an estimated £5 million to procure the provision of a new Master Trust pension scheme.
The UK’s Department for International Development DFID has gone out to tender with a contract for a major new programme: Cities and Infrastructure for Growth (CIG) worth an estimated £90 million.
Israeli water utility Mei Carmel has selected loggers from UK-headquartered smart water network solutions company i2O to monitor and measure the performance of its water network.
Water retailer Business Stream has secured a place on the UK’s largest public sector water framework agreement, the first contract of its kind following the opening of English water market in April
Bazalgette Tunnel Ltd, the organisation responsible for delivering the £4.2 billion Thames Tideway Tunnel, has gone out to tender with a contract for resourcing and recruitment services worth an estimated £6.5 million.
South West Water has hosted the first municipal trial of the Fournier Rotary Press in the UK, assessing its potential to improve sludge dewatering performance and support future biosolids standards.
Uniwater has acquired Hy-Ram Engineering, a specialist in tooling, products and hire for the water sector, based in Mansfield, England.
Enpure Ltd and Clean TeQ Water Ltd have announced a collaboration agreement to bring Clean TeQ Water's Moving Bed Ion Exchange-based nutrient removal technologies to water utilities across the UK.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.