As part of Yorkshire Water’s latest contract award, it has selected seven contractors to handle its non-infrastructural works framework valued at £850 million. The seven contractors named by Yorkshire Water will provide varied technical and engineering work to the clean water and wastewater systems.
Also of interest is that the names are not new to Yorkshire Water as they have been involved in projects with the water company for decades.
Contractors in Yorkshire Water latest contract
Galliford Try, Barhale, Mott MacDonald Bentley, Tilbury Douglas, Glanua, Ward & Burke, and Kier are the seven contractors handling the “complex part” of the £850 million framework.
This will see construction companies like Galliford Try do civil engineering work and handle whole phases of delivery options. Mott MacDonald Bentley will cover the development of new wastewater treatment plants and the improvement of existing water reservoirs. Other technicalities also handled by the mentioned contractors include: mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control and automation (MEICA).
Of importance to note is that the design, construction and delivery work will be carried out in a discretely mixed-up fashion by the contractors.
The Asset Management Period 8 (AMP8)
UK water regulator, Ofwat, recently approved the AMP8 investment program valued at £8.3bn. The AMP8 contracts also have an optional 5-year extension period. They contain several frameworks. Among them is this complex one that has been handed to the seven contractors by Yorkshire Water.
The AMP7 successor is set to run for a 5-year period starting from 2025. AMP7 also saw to infrastructure revamp anchored on sustainability. AMP7 contractors handled projects like the uprades to the Sladen Water Treatment and work on the Keighley Marley Wastewater Treatment. These were valued at £16 million and £18 million respectively. Also done was work on the Clifton Wetlands.
The £8.3bn AMP8 capital investment program has been termed the “largest-ever environmental initiative”. This is of its merit by value(s); and it does not fall short of accolades from stakeholders.
The head of program delivery at Yorkshire Water mentioned the “big challenge” to the seven contractors as not only being the technicalities of the projects to be undertaken, but also the new regulations and consumer expectations to be met.
Yorkshire Water is not the only UK water company implementing the AMP8 initiative. Those that have also recently made progress announcements about their frameworks include Southern Water and Wessex Water Capital.
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