The Supply, services and Maintenance of Odour Control Units

• Value: £10M

The scope of work for lot 1 includes: the manufacture, installation, supply, and delivery of new Odour Control Units. The maintenance will cover both planned and reactive maintenance, reactive call out repairs and refurbishment, media changes. Spares for all supplied equipment will be required. This lot will be awarded to no more than 4 suppliers using mini competitions.

• Value: £500K

To supply Inspection services for existing Odour Control Units with a minimum initial term of 5 years. The types of units to be included under the scope of inspection will be all forms of odour control units held on Thames Water's estate of sites, including but not limited to all forms of biofilters, chemical scrubbing units and carbon polishing units. Inspection will include but not limited to visual check for damage/defects to any part of system, taking contaminate/pH readings, cleaning certain parts of the systems, and taking pressure measurements. This lot will be awarded to a sole supplier for the whole Thames Water estate. If a bidder has bid for both lot 3 and lot 2 and are successful in both, they will be awarded only the single lot for which they have gained the highest score. In the event that the bidders scores for lots 2 and 3 are tied then we will look at the commercial scoring to decide which lot will be awarded. The bidder will be asked for their preference within the tender process.

• Value: £8M

To supply services for Odour Control Units, including refurbishment services with a minimum initial term of 5 years. The types of units to be included under the scope of service will be all forms of odour control units held on Thames Water's estate of sites, including all forms of biofilters, chemical scrubbing units and carbon polishing units. The works will be awarded to a primary supplier with a reserve in place. Area 1 will contain approximately half of the asset base and will generally cover the east of the Thames Water estate. Area 2 will contain approximately half of the asset base and will generally cover the west of the Thames Water estate. We aim to appoint no more than 4 suppliers to the framework agreement. Mini competitions will be run between both preferred and reserve suppliers for the relevant asset allocations in the case of (a) high value projects and (b) where required lead times cannot be met by the preferred supplier. If a bidder has bid for both lot 3 and lot 2 and are successful in both, they will be awarded only the single lot for which they have gained the highest score. In the event that the bidders scores for lots 2 and 3 are tied then we will look at the commercial scoring to decide which lot will be awarded. The bidder will be asked for their preference within the tender process.