Thames Water has gone out to tender with a contract for tankering, waste removal and cleaning services worth up to £150 million.

The contract is divided into the following four separate Lots:

Lot 1 — Tankering / Flow management and Cleaning services vendor ‘Pool’:

The pool will contain a number of suppliers whom will be invited to bid for pieces of work and combined requirements to drive innovation, efficiencies, project needs and to address capacity issues if and when they arise including special events e.g. Winter events.

All work to fall in Lot 1 will be determined based on a monetary threshold and planned work criteria. Up to 12 awarded suppliers will be within this pool -the intention is to invite up to 15 candidate suppliers to participate in the ITN.

Lot 2 — Tankering / Flow management and Cleaning of sewage treatment works assets operated by TWUL:

Most are located at more than 300 sites in the Thames Water sewerage area. Assets include process tanks, digesters, plant, lines and drainage, and the services in scope also encompass the clearing of spillages and the provision of trained personnel for confined space entry tasks as required. Both planned and reactive cleaning services carried out at the sites are considered under this lot.

Lot 3 — Tankering / Flow management and cleaning of sewage pumping stations operated by TWUL:

Including especially the pumping station wet wells. The work in scope includes work carried out both from the outside and involving confined space entry. TWUL's objective is to implement a proactive cleaning programme, but services under the current lot are sought for both reactive and planned work.

Lot 4 - Planned Sewer Cleaning and/or CCTV surveys of sewers across the Thames Water sewerage network area.

Deadline for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 3^rd January 2017 – click here to access the tender documentation.