Yorkshire Water is inviting expressions of interest from suppliers for a future tender to provide planned/reactive/emergency repair and maintenance works to its wastewater network with an estimated value of £500 million.
NI Water is inviting interested suppliers with mechanical installation, repair and maintenance service capability to get in touch ahead of going out to tender with a formal contract notice later this month.
The UK water companies are making increasingly strategic use of equipment hire as part of their their regular AMP7 activities, according to wastewater technology specialists HUBER Technology.
Severn Trent has gone out to tender with an AMP7 contract for waste infrastructure network services for itself and sister company Hafren Dyfrdwy Cyfyngedig worth an estimated £504 million in total.£500m-plus.
Scottish Water has gone out to tender with a framework contract for capital investment, infrastructure repair and maintenance & Mechanical Electrical Instrumentation Control and Automation (MEICA) worth an estimated £5.2 billion in total.
Severn Trent Water and sister company Hafren Dyfrdwy Cyfyngedig have gone out to tender with a contract for repair and maintenance services for its reservoirs worth an estimated £36 million.
UK water companies are invited to join an upcoming webinar which will explore how the sector can take indirect potable reuse (IPR) from concept to full-scale operational reality.
James Sumsion, CEO of predictive water intelligence specialists Kohtari, says the water sector needs to take a giant leap forward, so that it can anticipate and act upon water quality issues - rather than merely react.
Ray Moulds, Sales Director at Flood Control International, takes a look at how automated sliding floodgates are supporting secondary containment at water and sewerage company sites.
With the UK government demanding a 50% reduction in storm overflow spills by 2029, the era of reactive management is over. Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 July 2025, then environment secretary Steve Reed said, “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade.”