Wessex Water is inviting applications from suppliers to apply for opportunities to tender for particular categories of works and professional services.
The qualification system may be used as the basis for selection and tendering opportunities for contracts and agreements for works and professional services under two categories - Contractor Work Types and Consultants Work Types. Applicants are not limited to the number or group of Work Types for which they may apply.
Work under the Contractor Work Types Group includes:
- boreholes for water resources and ground water level observation, sinking and maintenance,
- civil engineering works
- concrete repair works
- diving including inspection, repair and installation work
- electrical, mechanical and instrumentation works
- fencing
- formwork, reinforcement and concrete (frc)
- general building works
- groundworks
- labour support (civils skilled labour)
- labour support (emi skilled labour)
- metalwork (including structural steelwork)
- piling
- plumbing and sanitary work
- reinstatement of roads etc. by hand lay including patching
- reinstatement of roads etc. by machine lay
- scada and controls/software development, modifications and replacement
- trenchless pipework.
Work under the Consultants Work Types Group includes:
- archaeological services
- environmental and wildlife/ecological consultancy
- hydraulic analysis (including hydraulic modelling)
- site/ground investigation
- topographical and utility site surveys.
The qualification system may be used as the basis of the first stage of qualification for selection or tendering opportunities by Wessex Water.
Click here to access the Qualification System documentation.
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