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16 WET NEWS FEBRUARY 2019 | wwtonline.co.uk • Thames Water, which plans to invest a record £11.7 billion in AMP7, awarded the largest water industry contracts of all time for its AMP6 delivery alliances APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT AND SYSTEMS INTEGRATION Work: Implementing new business applications and associated pro- c e s s e s , t o u n d e r t a k e m a j o r changes to current and legacy applications and deliver associ- ated infrastructure solutions Partners: CGI, Accenture, CapGem- ini, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, TATA Consultancy Services and Deloitte MCS Contract length: Up to 5 years (2020) Contract value: £200m CAPITAL DELIVERY Work: Delivering the AMP6 capital programme Partners: Costain, Atkins and Black & Veatch (CABV) plus Skanska, Stantec and Balfour Beatty (SMB), forming the eight2O alliance. Stan- tec also leads programme control and IBM is technology innovation partner Contract length: 5 years (until 2020) with option to extend to 2025 Contract value: £1.75bn CONTROLS AND AUTOMATION Work: Control and automation sys- tems including the manufacture and related systems integration of low voltage control systems (lot 1) and control and automation sup- por t services, including the upgrade and maintenance of exist- ing systems and resultant integra- tion with existing operational systems (lot 2) Partners: Adsyst Automation, Bil- finger Industrial Automation Services, Boulting Group, Bridges Electrical Engineers, Capula, JR Pridham Services, Peak42, Tata Consultancy Services and Total Automation & Power (TAP) Contract length: 5 years (until 2020) Contract value: £84m DIGITAL CONSULTANCY AND TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Work: Providing all IT services and g e t t i n g t h e b e s t f r o m n e w technologies Partners: Accenture, Bilfinger, Deloitte and IBM, forming the Technology and Transformation Alliance (TTA) Contract length: 5 years (until 2020) Contract value: £380m ENERGY FROM SLUDGE Work: Advanced energy recovery from sludge, covering technology already proven in the water sector Partners: Aqualogy Environment Contract length: 3 years (until 2019) with option to extend to 7 years Contract value: Not known ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANCY Work: Engineering work across all asset areas, including identifying, defining and validating needs; providing feasibility studies; iden- tifying operational and delivery efficiencies; and tpreliminary and detailed design. Environmental scope includes strategic planning for drought and water resources management; outcomes and performance commitments meas- urement and optimisation; and project management Partners: Jacobs Contract length: 3 years (until 2020) with options to extend to 2030 Contract value: Not known FACILITIES MANAGEMENT Work: Integrated facilities manage- ment for Thames Water's portfolio of 4,000 properties Partners: EMCOR UK Contract length: 5 years (until 2020) Contract value: Not known FILTRATION EQUIPMENT Work: Supply of filtration equip- ment and maintenance, with par- ticular focus on the supply of modular SAFs, integral nSAFs and Concrete Cell nSAFS Partners: FLI Water Contract length: 5 years (until 2021) Contract value: £2.5m INFRASTRUCTURE Wo r k : R e p a i r, m a i n t a i n a n d upgrade work on below-ground water infrastructure Partners: Murphy and Morrison Utility Services, plus Kier and Clancy Docwra (KCD), forming the Infrastructure Alliance Contract length: 5 years (until 2020) with options to extend to 2025 and 2030 Contract value: £1bn LEAKAGE DETECTION Work: Proactive detection of non- visible leaks, specialised consult- ing and additional projects related to leakage detection Partners: Contract out for tender with up to nine partners sought Contract length: Maximum 8 years Contract value: £203m METER INSTALLATION SERVICES Work: Installing smart water meters across the Thames Water network Partners: Morrison Utility Services and Galliford Try, forming MGjv Contract length: 5 years (until 2020) Contract value: £25m STREETWORKS INSPECTIONS Work: Streetworks inspections and audits for quality assurance of Thames Water's street assets Partners: PJ Keary Contract length: 5 years (until 2023) with annual extension options Contract value: £14m TANKERING AND CLEANING SERVICES Work: Includes sewage treatment plant cleaning, sewage pumping station cleaning, wet well empty- ing, and tankering Partners: A Better Service Ltd (ABS), A1 Wokingham Wet Waste, BioMarsh Environmental, Celvac (Celtic) Vaccum, Enviro-Clean (Scotland), Flowline, Industrial Water Jetting Systems (IWJS), Lanes Group, McAllister Bros, MTS Cleansing Services, OnSite Cen- tral, Wrights of Twycross Contract length: 3 years (until 2021) with annual extension options up to maximum 8 years Contract value: £150m Contractor Factfile: Thames Water THE BUSINESS THAMES WATER OPERATIONAL FACTS Area served: 13,000km2 Population served – water: 10m Population served – wastewater: 15m Annual turnover (2017/8): £2bn Capital investment (2017/8): £1.1bn Household connections – water: 3.5m Household connections - wastewater: 5.4m Water treatment works: 97 Wastewater treatment works: 351 Water mains length: 31,000km Sewers length: 100,000km WHAT THEY SAY Thames Water invested heavily in a new alliance approach for the delivery of its AMP6 capital investment programme and infrastructure services work. However, Thames said in business plan for 2020-25 that, when reviewing its AMP6 plans, it was clear that "a number of the assumptions were inaccurate and there had been failures in delivery", adding that many of the "serious operational incidents" that occurred in 2016 and 2017 were directly related to the operating model it adopted in 2015 and the culture it engendered. Thames has now committed to four fundamental and immediate changes to underpin the delivery of its strategic priorities for AMP7, which included restructuring its alliances to ensure it has the right level of control to manage its water network and information systems effectively with its partners. The restructure of the company, under a programme called One Thames, began in April 2018 and is designed to improve transparency and coordination. The company said: "As part of reorganising our business, it was clear that we also needed to restructure our supply chain, particularly the Technology and Transformation Alliance (TTA), which ran our information systems, and the Infrastructure Alliance (IA), which ran our water network. The key insight was the need to ensure that we, Thames Water, had full oversight and management control of the core activities that are essential to deliver a brilliant service to our customers." It is also working to "complete the restructure of eight2O, our capital delivery alliance, to ensure we build an efficient and effective capital projects delivery capability that underpins our capital programme in the rest of this planning period". A specialist leakage detection services contract was put out to tender in September 2018. THE CONTRACTS

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