Thames Water has issued a Periodic Indicative Notice inviting suppliers to submit expressions of interest in tendering for standpipe services across the whole of the Thames Water region.

The water company intends to award an agreement for the management of standpipe services to customers on its clean water network covering all regions of the TWUL service area.

Scope of the required services includes:

• issuing of licenses to customers
• training of customers on safe network access and use of standpipes prior to hiring the customer the equipment
• supply, delivery and collection of hired metered standpipes to third parties
• maintenance of metered standpipes and associated equipment including hydrants
• call recording and monitoring (In relation to all elements of standpipe services) which can be supplied to Thames on request for evidence purposes
• supply and fitting of hydrant monitoring technology
• supply of metered and GPS enabled standpipes
• illegal use monitoring of the network via the use of standpipes and hydrants
• monitoring customer usage via meter readings on standpipes
• billing of customers for the standpipe services and licenses
• reporting updates of statistics, insights and progress on a monthly basis 

Thames Water is looking for suppliers who can provide at least three client references as evidence of satisfactory performance under contracts for similar services over the last 3 years.

Interested economic operators should notify Thames of their interest in the contract by 25^th December.

Thames Water is aiming to have the contract in place to start April 2021and expects the contract to run for an initial term of 5 years with options to extend up to a maximum duration of 3 years.

Click here to access the Periodic Indicative Notice