Scottish Water has gone out to tender with for civil engineering consultancy services worth up to £400 million over twelve years.
The utility is looking to appoint a maximum of seventeen participants to the framework agreement to deliver technical consultancy support services to provide assistance with the development and delivery of its investment programmes.
The contract will cover improvement works associated with all its water and wastewater assets across Scotland, including new assets, renewals, modification, maintenance, refurbishments, extensions and enhancements to existing assets.
The framework will be awarded for an initial six year period from April 2015 until March 2021for its Q&S 4 capital investment programme, with an option to extend for an additional six years from April 2021 until March 2027 for Q&S 5.
The utility currently envisages that between five to eight applicants will be invited to tender for each of the three lots which make up the contract.
Lot 1 - Technical Consultancy Support is worth up to £300 million over 12 years and covers the appointment of between 2-4 consultants (or alliances) who will provide the majority of Scottish Water’s technical consultancy support from 2015 to 2021 and potentially out to 2027.
The appointed consultants will be expected to work with Scottish Water over the duration of the agreement to develop effective collaboration, including the negotiation of incentive mechanisms, sharing of risk, co- location with multi-agency teams and secondment.
The framework includes:
- the study, investigation, data collection, modelling and identification of water and wastewater service related performance improvement requirements.
- the development of traditional and innovative asset and operational based solutions, feasibility studies, and investment appraisals to support decision making by the client.
- the design and development of solutions for delivery by framework or tendered contractors.
Lot 2 - Network Modelling is to procure 1-4 consultants (or alliances) who will provide both Scottish Water and its appointed consultants or Alliance Partners with additional water and wastewater modelling support from 2015 to 2021, and potentially out to 2027. The contract is worth up to £80m over the full 12 year period.
Lot 3 covers Technical Commercial Consultancy Support where Scottish Water is seeking to procure 3-5 consultants for the provision of commercial consultancy services including cost audits, cost estimating, contract administration, value management, risk management, contract drafting and dispute resolution. Estimated value for Lot 3 is £24m over 12 years.
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 1st July. Interested parties will be invited to attend a bidders day which will take place in early July 2014. Confirmation of the date and other relevant details will be emailed to bidders shortly after Scottish Water receives their note of interest.
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