Yorkshire Water has made two separate multi-million pound AMP8 contract awards without competition for the supply and maintenance of Remote Telemetry Units to a single supplier.

Metasphere Ltd has been awarded the following contracts:

i. Supply of Remote Telemetry Units (RTU) and Associated Equipment - £6 million inc VAT

ii. Maintenance and Upkeep of Proprietary Battery Powered RTUs - £12 million inc VAT

Earliest date both contracts will be signed is 16 March 2026 current estimated start and end contract dates are 16 March 2026 to 21 January 2031.

The direct award to a single supplier was made for technical reasons.

In May 2025 Yorkshire Water went out to tender with a major AMP8 contract running for 20 years for a Regional Telemetry System (RTS) covering RTS software and related systems integration services worth an estimated £84 million.

RTS is the water company’s core Telemetry Monitoring System provided by Metasphere Ltd and is also known as the MC2000 product.

The current RTS system the utility uses requires RTUs which can communicate via the Medina protocol - intellectual property owned by Metasphere. Yorkshire Water said that until a new RTS system, which can support an Open protocol, is implemented, it is required to use the sole supplier that can provide compatible hardware.

The current system currently provides the capability for near real time monitoring and intervention of 6500 Edge Devices, converting this data into actionable business intelligence.

There are over 10,000 schematics (mimics) configured from a data base of over 275,000 data streams.