Yorkshire Water is calling for contractors to bid for places on its £800M clean water network repair and maintenance services contract.

The contract will be tendered in five lots. The initial contract term for Lots 1 to 4 is four years, with a further four-year extension option. For Lot 5, the term is three years, with a two-year extension option.

Lot 5 will be an innovation marketplace designed to support businesses and promote innovative solutions.

Works come under the new AMP7 spending period – a five-year investment cycle for works in the UK water sector.

The five lots

Lot 1: Emergency Reactive Work - £160M
Lot 2: Planned Reactive Work - £360M
Lot 3: Developer Services Work - £120M
Lot 4: Metering Work - £160M
Lot 5: Clean R&M Innovation Marketplace

Lots 1 and 2 will cover a range of services, including mains diversions, repairs and replacement (including trunk mains), stop taps, replacement and repairs of supply and comms pipes, along with the replacement and installation of valves, hydrants and ferrules, bulk meters and lead pipes. Lot 2 will also include network operation and maintenance, and leakage detection.

Lot 3 will include clean only, clean and waste new connections and clean only main laying. It will also include clean and waste mains diversion for the purposes of developer work.

Lot 4 includes the procurement and storage of meters, domestic and non-domestic meter replacement, installation and repair, domestic and non-domestic internal plumbing work and meter reading.

Meanwhile, the innovation marketplace (lot 5) will be designed to generate competition among successful bidders and make it easier to introduce new technologies and innovative working processes to the water utilities sector.

The scope of the mini competitions will include:

• Dig improvement - for example the use of keyhole techniques and no-dig approaches, use of long handled tools, suction excavation, pipe pulling and the use of sustainable materials
• Dig avoidance - for example in-pipe repair, repair and renewal of communication and supply pipes, self-repairing materials, 3D printing, robotics, internal drone detection and repair
• Leak prediction - detection and triage (including hardware, software and service aspects)
• Technology-led condition assessment and network maintenance solutions

Bids must be submitted by 20 April – details are available by contacting Yorkshire Water at: cleanrmtender@yorkshirewater.co.uk.

Information

• Location: United Kingdom
• Starts April 7, 2020 20:00 , ends April 20, 2020 19:59

Taxonomy

• Smart Meters
• Flowmetering
• Metering
• Meters
• Condition Assessment
• Strategic Asset Management
• Distribution Network Management
• Utility Pipe Network
• Sewer Networks
• pipeline leak detection
• Asset Performance