Water and Effluent Treatment Magazine
Issue link: https://fhpublishing.uberflip.com/i/411323
ALLIANCES 2015 29 Amey's Network Maintenance Alliance contract with United Utilities (UU) has been extended until 2020. The £225M deal will see Amey help to maintain more than 76,000km of sewer pipe, 42,000km of clean water infrastructure, private sewers, manage water diversions and carry out network enhancements for a further five years for UU. As part of the UU deal, the services provided are critical for maintaining the clean and wastewater infrastructure that serve approximately seven million people and 200,000 businesses in the North- west. Amey acquired Enterprise who originally held the contract since 2009 and the contract extension will draw on the key successes over the lifetime of the contract including: Mel Ewell, chief executive of Amey, said: Optimise carries out capital works, repair and maintenance and developer services for Thames Water. Far from ramping down, the forecast for year five of the five-year contract is now in excess of £110M, making this the busiest year yet. Last year (year 4) the joint "We are delighted that we will be continuing this important relationship with United Utilities, and look forward to providing excellent service delivery to the communities across the north-west of England." Steve Fraser, managing director of UU, said: "Amey will play a vital role every venture delivered £102.7M of Value of Work Done (VOWD) for capex – the busiest year since the AMP began. The work mix included water and wastewater projects. There was a focus on flood alleviation, from large scale projects in Swindon to FLIP (small day for our three million customers keeping the pipes and pumps of our water and wastewater system working. We have a significant amount of work to maintain and improve many parts of our network over the next five years and beyond, whilst keeping water bills affordable." packaged pumping stations) across north London and the Thames Valley. Other major projects included the completion of the Wraysbury to Queen Mother Tunnel Relining project, reservoir embank- ment protection, Speen and Woods Farm trunk mains projects. Optimise also continued the opex clean water repair and maintenance contract in the Thames Valley and south London and the developer services contract in the Thames Valley and North London . Optimise met or exceeded all its Thames Water targets and continues to have a good health and safety record. With Thames Water, Optimise won awards for its focus on customer communi- cations and significantly exceeded targets for the ratio of customer commendations to complaints, receiving in excess of one commendation for every complaint. PARTNERS Amey; United Utilities CUSTOMERS United Utilities CONTRACT Maintaining and renewing clean and wastewater assets TERM Yr5 of 5yr-contract, and extended to 2020 PARTNERS J Murphy & Sons; Clancy Docwra; Barhale Construction; MWH CUSTOMER Thames Water CONTRACT Delivering AMP5 projects TERM Yr5 of 5yr deal Network Maintenance Alliance Optimise Optimise delivered more than £100M of Value of Work Done for Thames Water last year ALLIANCES 2015 Contract extension for Amey Optimise 'ramps up' for busiest year The deal is worth around £225M