United Utilities has gone out to tender for early contractor involvement in project development for its £750 million Manchester and Pennines scheme.
Ofwat has set out its expectations for high quality and well evidenced proposals for direct procurement for customers (DPCs) in the water companies' PR19 business plans for the upcoming Price Review in 2019.
Ahead of next week's World Water-Tech Innovation Summit in London, Guy Ledger, Client Director at Atkins provides the inside track on direct procurement ahead of the session he will chair: Getting Deals Done with Innovative Procurement Models.
United Utilities is starting to put the building blocks in place enabling it to carry out the direct procurement of large scale capital investment projects worth between £100 million to £500 million whole life cost.
An Expert Focus article on Waterbriefing explores whether the tide of investor appeal will rise or fall as the water industry takes on direct procurement.
Ofwat is already in the process of considering the options for market design of direct procurement for customers, according to the minutes of its latest Board meeting published this week.
Albion Water, the first NAV (New Appointment & Variation) to have been established in1999 and now under the ownership of SDS Water Group, has appointed Andy Holland as its new Director of Business Development.
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.