Thames Water to shake-up reinstatement contractors

Thames Water is inviting firms to join a new preferred list of highways reinstatement contractors across its region.

The water company carries out around 150,000 reinstatements per year at a cost of around £30m. This includes avoidable streetworks fines and penalties.

Thames said that reinstatement work remained a major challenge for the firm, but offered great opportunities deliver operational efficiencies and best value for money.

Around 56% of reinstatements are in response to clean water repair and maintenance works, 13% due to metering, 12% customer side leakage, 8% to developer services and 2% to capital delivery projects, which is expected to increase due to a mains replacement programme.

Some 9% of reinstatements are due to the waste network, will not expected to be included in the initial term of the contract as there is a contract in place until 2020 with Cappagh Browne.

The new framework will be broken up into three regions North and South London and the Thames Valley.

At present workloads around 40% of reinstatement work is carried out in North London, with the lots worth around £104m, South London accounts for a third of the work at around £88m and the Thames Valley region about a quarter of total budgeted work at £67m.

Firms would be selected to work initially for three years, with the option to then extend for a further five years.

Further information is available from the procurement portal, by quoting work title: Reinstatement and reference number: FA1315

from Construction Enquirer http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2017/06/12/thames-water-to-shake-up-reinstatement-contractors/

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