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12 WET NEWS MARCH 2019 | wwtonline.co.uk • Yorkshire Water is changing its approach for AMP7 as it prepares to work with a limited number of planning partners alongside a broader range of delivery teams CIVILS AND BUILDING WORK Work: Complex civils framework includes civil and structural engi- neering design, construction and refurbishment works associated with selected assets on opera- tional treatment, collection or distribution facilities including process treatment and water retaining structures. Minor civils framework lot 1 associated with assets on operational treatment, collection or distribution facilities involving structures while lot 2 includes associated with selected assets on operational treatment, collection or distribution facilities involving structures as one-off projects Partners: Contract out for tender Contract length: 5 years (until 2025) with option to extend to 2028 Contract value: Complex civils worth £750m, minor civils lot 1 worth £250m and minor civils lot 2 worth £40m CLEAN AND WASTEWATER NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE SCHEMES Work: Infrastructure construction, renewal, refurbishment and replacement works on both clean and waste networks on below- ground assets, typically in public highways Partners: Contract out for tender Contract length: 4 years with 4-year extension option Contract value: £400m CUSTOMER-FOCUSED INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS Work: Planned and repetitive minor infrastructure construction, renewal, replacement and refur- bishment works on clean and waste networks on below ground assets Partners: Contract out for tender Contract length: 4 years with 4-year extension option Contract value: £250m ENERGY SERVICES Work: Supplying energy services and reducing energy consumption through audits of company sites Partners: Engie Contract length: 5 years (until 2022) Contract value: Unknown INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Work: Covers 12 key areas includ- ing application management, infrastructure and new projects across two areas: advisory and delivery of IT services Partners: Hexaware, Sopra-Steria, DXC, Cap Gemini, PA Consulting, Infosys, Italik and Wipro Contract length: Up to 7 years (until 2025) Contract value: £50m MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR WORK Work: Repairing water mains, installing water meters and carry- ing out streetworks Partners: Morrison Utility Services Contract length: 3 years (until 2021) Contract value: £250m MARINE FRAMEWORK Work: Marine civil engineering work, including installing sea out- fall pipes and carrying out site investigations and planned main- tenance to improve existing outfall assets Partners: ABCO Marine, Farrans Construction, Van Oord and Ward & Burke Contract length: 5 years (until 2021) Contract value: £100m MEICA CAPITAL FRAMEWORK Work: Mechanical, electrical, instru- mentation, controls and automa- tion, plus undertaking administra- tive, managerial and customer support-related responsibilities Partners: nmcn, Cema Clayton Con- sortium, Eric Wright Group and Damar Group Contract length: 5 years (until 2020) Contract value: £100m STRATEGIC PLANNING PARTNER Work: Supporting the company's strategic plan, driving innova- tion in the approach to resolving risk, exploiting new technology, partnership working and use of markets. A commercial model arrangement incentivises the delivery of results inspired by the creation of ideas leading to exceptional service to customers Partners: Stantec Contract length: 7 years (until March 2025) with option to extend to 2030 Contract value: £50m TELEMETRY Work: Managing the installation of telemetry assets across 1,200 wastewater sites Partners: Sweco UK Contract length: 3 years (until 2021) Contract value: Unknown WASTEWATER NETWORK REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE Work: Repair and maintenance services across the wastewater network plus support in protecting homes from sewer flooding and pollution Partners: Amey Contract length: 5 years (until 2020) Contract value £113m WORKSTREAM 69 Work: Implementing lean reliabil- ity centred maintenance pro- gramme (LRCM) across entire asset base Partners: Black & Veatch Contract length: 1 year (until April 2019) Contract value: Unknown YORKSHIRE ALLIANCE Work: Range of skills required includes (but not limited to) res- ervoirs, raw water inlets, water treatment works, wastewater treat- ment works and outlets Partners: Contract out for tender with two partners sought Contract length: 5 years (until 2024) with options to extend until 2027 and 2030 Contract value: £1.1bn Contractor Factfile: Yorkshire Water THE BUSINESS YORKSHIRE WATER OPERATIONAL FACTS Area served: 14,394km2 Population served – water: 5.05m Population served – wastewater: 5.15m Annual turnover (2017/8): £1,026.7m Capital investment (2017/8): £426.7m Household connections – water: 2.3m Household connections - wastewater: 2.2m Water treatment works: 49 Wastewater treatment works: 611 Water mains length: 31,693.40km Sewers length: 52,262.61km WHAT THEY SAY Yorkshire Water has announced some significant ambitions for the coming years, including a 40 per cent leakage reduction, 50 per cent cut in pollution incidents and 70 per cent drop in internal sewer flooding by the end of AMP7. To help meet those goals without passing the cost on to customers, it's reshaping the way it approaches procurement. "I need to find people who have innovative solutions, who can find me different ways of working," head of procurement Andy Clark told WET News' sister publication WWT last year. "What that's meant for us is we've invested much more in the strategic thinking end, and we've looked at partnerships in that area rather than just investing at the delivery end." Yorkshire Water is already utilising an enhanced direct delivery (EDD) model, which sees it acting as an 'intelligent client', working with experts to create solutions to be delivered by organisations with lower operating costs, based on an appropriate sharing of risk. To push the model forward, Yorkshire Water named Stantec as its strategic planning partner in January 2018 "to introduce challenge and worldwide expertise and innovation", and this year the company will name two partners for its new Yorkshire Alliance, which could be worth £1.1 billion and last 11 years. Those alliance partners will be expected to adopt a similarly innovative strategic approach, working out the plans on behalf of those responsible for delivery to lower the cost of resolving risk. As such, delivery partners are set to be brought in on more of a horses-for-courses basis. The company has held several events as part of its '2020-25 Supply Chain Strategy', helping to develop wider relationships outside of formal contracts and inspire greater levels of idea sharing and collaboration. THE CONTRACTS

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