Water and Effluent Treatment Magazine
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14 LEADERS 2017 Contract gains for Amey North and South of the border Amey The Sherard Building edmund Halley Road Oxford OX4 4DQ Tel: 01865 713100 www.amey.co.uk Amey, which is owned by Spanish-based Ferrovial, continues to perform well with an industry-leading bid-win rate of 56% and a forward order book (including share of revenues of joint ventures) which now stands at £12bn, says its chief executive officer, Mel Ewell. Key contract wins have included a 15-year £235M contract with Trafford Council to deliver one of the first bundled service offerings in the market, combining environment and infrastructure services. Amey also entered into a new £125M contract with Yorkshire Water to provide wastewater services covering the whole of the utility's region. This contract started in September 2016 and will run until 2020. Amey currently repairs and maintains around 20,000 miles of sewer pipe across the county, transporting wastewater from nearly two million homes to more than 600 treatment works. Amey has also been appointed to Scottish Water's Managed Delivery Framework, under which five Tier 1 suppliers are delivering the Capital Investment Programme throughout Scotland for the regulatory period 2015-2021. There is also the potential to extend the contract for a further six years in total. Furthermore, Amey is the only contractor to have been appointed to both the Civil Engineering and the Mechanical and Electrical Lots. 2015 saw the division hold its third innovation. Amey operates more than 320 contracts, providing a range of services including utilities, highways, waste management, rail, justice solutions, social housing and facilities management. THe NUmBeRS 2013 2014 2015 % cHANge Sales £M 1,761.5 2,167.9 2,230.6 3 Gross profit £M 202.2 263.9 163.8 -38 Operating profit £M 98.9 136.9 47.1 -66 Pre-tax profit £M 78.7 106.7 23.6 -78 Staff 17,347 18,659 20,759 11 Net assets £M 435.0 482.1 509.2 6 THe RATIOS 2013 2014 2015 % cHANge 5yr AVe. Return on capital % 18.1 22.1 4.6 -79 17.8 Gross margin % 11.5 12.2 7.3 -40 12.2 Operating margin % 5.6 6.3 2.1 -67 5.8 Net margin % 4.5 4.9 1.1 -78 5.0 Sales/employee £K 101.5 116.2 107.4 -8 106.3 the LeADeRS 2017