Thames Water has awarded a Technical Partners Framework contract to support the delivery of its Strategic Resource Options Programme - the first phase of a longer-term strategy to establish the professional services supply chain that Thames needs to support its wider business.

The utility’s current portfolio of SRO projects in the RAPID programme includes ( but is not limited to):

• Southeast Strategic Reservoir Option (SESRO)
• Severn to Thames Transfer (STT)
• London Water Recycling (LWR) projects
• Thames to Affinity Transfer (T2AT)
• Thames to Southern Transfer (T2ST).

The TP framework scope comprises, but is not limited to, the following high level service categories:

• General Technical Partner Support Services
• Engineering and Design Services
• Environmental Services
• Planning Services
• Land Services
• Engagement Services
• Project Management, Program, Risk and Cost Activities
• Consultation Response Analysis
• Events Management

The folowing companies have all been awarded a place on the framework

• Ove Arup & Partners Ltd (JV1)
• Binnies UK Ltd (JV1)
• AtkinsRealis UK Ltd (JV2)
• Stantec UK Limited (JV2)
• Jacobs U.K. Limited (JV3)
• Mott MacDonald Limited (JV3)

The Technical Partnerrs Framework client may be Thames Water Utilities Ltd or another company within the Kemble Water group structure.