NI Water has launched the early market engagement for its water and wastewater network maintenance services framework worth up to £400 million - the water company is planning to hold supplier engagement meetings in mid 2023.
The water company has issued a Periodic Indicative Notice signalling its intention to procure a contract for its network maintenance programme with capacity to deliver improvement, repair and maintenance works across their water and wastewater network.
The framework will cover both the PC21 and PC27 Price Control periods which run for 2021-2027 and 2027-2032 respectively.
NI Water currently has a contract in place for these services until 2025 – procurement for the new contract is expected to commence in early 2024.
As part of the procurement process NI Water intends to issue a Request for Information (RFI) market enquiry to engage with suppliers who either currently deliver water and sewer network services or who are interested in delivering these services in the future.
In addition to the RFI, the water company is also planning to hold supplier engagement meetings in mid 2023.
The aim of the RFI and supplier engagement sessions will be to assess the interest, capacity and capability of the market in providing this type of service.
NI Water said it is also interested in receiving feedback and developing its understanding from the market on the different experiences, approaches and models used in other sectors and utilities for network maintenance services.
NI Water will publish a separate notice to seek expressions of interest and suppliers will have the opportunity at that stage to complete and return a RFI Questionnaire and register interest in the supplier engagement meetings. Following the receipt of expressions of interest, NI Water will be in contact with suppliers to set out details of the supplier engagement sessions.
Estimated date of publication of a formal contract notice for the framework is 26 January 2024.
Click here to access the Periodic Indicative Notice documentation.
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