Scottish Water has gone out to tender with a contract for a new Enterprise Asset Management solution worth an estimated £20 million.
The water company is embarking on a long-term transformation programme to enhance its Asset Management capability, starting with the replacement of its legacy ABB Ellipse solution of 17 years.
The management of Scottish Water’s nationwide network of assets is strategically critical – the utility provides nearly 1.4 billion litres of water to 2.5 million households and 152,000 businesses.
Scottish Water is looking for specialist software suppliers who offer the latest and best Enterprise Asset Management tooling and solutions which provide strong capability in core Enterprise Asset Management.
Key requirement highlights include:
- Being a single asset registry; capturing linear and non-linear asset information, designs and configurations, in defined data hierarchies, linking this information with supporting documentation, and governance and controls for data updates/refreshes
- Operational planning including systemised scheduling, resource planning/tracking and management and recording of planned and unplanned works
- Asset operations, works and maintenance, including real time data stream capture, alerting, reliability analysis, maintenance forecasting and cost optimisation of interventions
- Mapping and visualisation of asset data, including reporting
- Tracking the connectivity and criticality of individual asset elements
Potential suppliers will be required to demonstrate experience in infrastructure or a comparable industry, with strong capabilities in transition project management, data migration, and client partnering.
Further desirable capability includes:
- Strategic investment and systems planning; including business case, full life cost, risk and demand modelling, scenario analysis
- Project and construction management for creation/upgrade/disposal of assets including tracking construction delivery, requirements management, commissioning outputs and design tools/digital twin models
- Risk management including dynamic risk assessment, live risk reporting and forecasting, scenario modelling and failure mode analysis
Initial contract term is five years with a further five years of extension options.
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 6 September 2021 – click here to access the tender documentation.
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