Water and Effluent Treatment Magazine
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10 ALLIANCES 2017 MWH and Balfour Beatty make up the Advance joint venture working on United Utilities' (UU) AMP6 capital delivery programme. The JV, called Advance, is one of four capital delivery partners appointed to develop and deliver clean and wastewater, infrastructure and non-infra- structure solutions. Advance is one of four delivery partners (MMB, C2V+, LiMA). Like other alliances in the water sector, Advance enjoyed an early start to AMP6 having worked on a transition investment programme in preparation. The construction delivery partners will help with the design and build of major construction projects. The multidisciplinary activities being carried out as part of the framework include design, project management, construction, testing, commissioning and mainte- nance which will ensure the delivery of clean and wastewater. Agility Alliance is the joint venture formed by J Murphy & Sons and Morrison Utility Services and supported by Mott MacDonald. The organisation is one of two consortia working on Thames Water's £1bn infrastructure alliance. The deal, worth an estimated value of £500M, The Construction Delivery Partner framework will vary in each year of the AMP period and may range between £120M and £370M annually. It is hoped that the programme will allow the delivery partners to build a runs for five years with a potential ten-year extension into the AMP7 and AMP8 regulatory periods. As part of the infrastruc- ture alliance, Agility is helping to deliver essential, planned and reactive operational water networks support such as repair, maintenance and all associated activities that will drive down leakage and reduce interrup- tions to supply for customers across the Thames Water region. KCD is the other infrastructure alliance partner. Agility and KCD is working alongside Thames Water and the other partners in eight2O, to deliver the AMP6 long-term relationship with United Utilities, with potential to extend the existing agreement to 2026. Over this extended period the work is estimated to be worth around £750M to each framework partner. programme and beyond. Thames Water managing director of wholesale water, Bob Collington, said: "We strongly believe these two alliances will create aligned goals and objectives throughout the supply chain, standing us in the best possible position to deliver our customer and stakehold- er promises." Matthew Behan, Murphy chief executive officer, said he was looking forward to partnering with Thames Water "to innovatively address the challenges that lie ahead" and help achieve sustainable efficiency, performance and customer service. Charles Morrison, chief executive at Morrison US, added that the make-up of the Agility joint venture brings the capacity, capabil- ity and innovation required to enable Thames Water to achieve the step changes in efficiency and performance that it has targeted for AMP6. PARTNERS Balfour Beatty, MWH CLIENT United Utilities CONTRACT AMP6 capital delivery TERM Six years, and five years PARTNERS J Murphy; Morrison US CLIENT Thames Water CONTRACT Capital delivery as part of Infrastructure Alliance TERM Five years, possible ten-year extension Advance AGILITY ALLIANCES 2017 MWH and Balfour Beatty advance with UU Dealing with Thames' infrastructure The Construction Delivery Partner framework will vary each year Agility is one of two consortia working on Thames' infrastructure