Northumbrian Water has gone out to tender with a framework contract for sewerage repair and maintenance work worth up to £36 million.

The framework is for repairs and maintenance of approximately 16 000 km of the water company’s sewerage network in the North East of England. The framework covers the South Region of its North East Operating Area - generally covering Darlington, Teesside, Durham, Stockton and parts of Teesdale and Weardale.

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement is put at between £30 million to £36 million.

The scope of work includes reactive and planned repairs and maintenance - largely reactive emergency services in response to customer contacts and other short term work where there is an immediate and repeated adverse impact on customer service or other serviceability measures.

The service will resolve issues that are causing or likely to cause uncontrolled escapes from sewers leading to property flooding and pollution events, including:

• provision of 24/7/365 emergency call out cover,
• network investigations including reactive and programmed CCTV, look see, flooding, pollution and odour complaints
• reactive and programmed sewer cleansing
• ultra high pressure jet cutting
• sewer blockage clearing
• sewer maintenance and repairs, including dig down repairs, rising main repairs, reactive patch repairs and reactive lining
• reactive sewer mapping

Suppliers must be able to provide the full scope of work required under the contract.

The initial framework period is 2 years with the option to extend for a further period of up to 4 years.

Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 30^th October 2018 – click here to access the tender documentation.