Non-Household Smart Metering

Concepts

• water meters
• glasgow
• robust smart metering infrastructure
• smart metering technologies
• smart metering
• non-household smart metering
• households
• meters
• smart
• metering

Location

Scotland

Description

Scottish Water's purpose is to support a flourishing Scotland by being trusted to care for the water on which Scotland depends. We are proud to provide water and wastewater services that are essential to everyday life for households and businesses across Scotland. We make a critical contribution to Scotland's health, well-being and prosperity, the sustainability of our natural environment, and our country's long-term economic success. Our purpose is founded on the quality of water supplies and our care for the environment. To do that every day, we must keep building our customers' trust in us as their expectations rise, the climate changes and our assets get older. We fulfil our purpose by pursuing three strategic ambitions: Service excellence, great value & financial sustainability and beyond net zero emissions. These ambitions are interconnected - success depends on us achieving all three, not one or the other and to do this, we need to do things differently. As we work towards the delivery of our strategic ambitions, Scottish Water is planning a nationwide rollout of smart metering for approximately 136,000 business customers from 2025-2031, subject to detailed planning and funding approval. This initiative follows a successful pilot of smart metering technologies for approximately 3,000 business customers in Inverness and Orkney. To achieve this, Scottish Water aims to develop a comprehensive range of technical and operational capabilities that include managing the supply, installation, and maintenance of water meters, implementation of communication networks, and provision of data services (e.g. ingestion, aggregation, storage, analysis, and insight generation) to support robust smart metering infrastructure.

CPV Codes

• 38421100 - Water meters
• 32412000 - Communications network
• 32430000 - Wide area network
• 45232150 - Works related to water-distribution pipelines
• 48000000 - Software package and information systems
• 72300000 - Data services

Other Information

Scottish Water's requirements may be procured as combined or separate lots. We welcome responses from suppliers who can offer some of or all these capabilities. We are particularly interested in innovative and collaborative approaches that could be deployed across the supply chain. The framework(s) will be awarded in 2025, with a planned installation start date of Autumn 2025 and we invite potential suppliers to share their ideas, capabilities, and proposed approaches. ** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** SW is seeking to obtain feedback from suitably experienced suppliers regarding the potential support available for the rollout and ongoing requirements of the Non-Household Smart Metering Programme as described in section II.1.4 This PIN is used as pre-market engagement exercise. The primary focus of the pre-market engagement is to provide market intelligence, solution availability and perceived risks and opportunities. This is not a call for a tender or a pre-qualification exercise. This is for info only and that this does not prejudice any potential bidders in any future tendering process. All responses will be carefully considered but will not bind SW to any specific approach to procurement, nor will responses be treated as conveying any promise or commitment on the part of the respondent. All responses will be treated confidentially. Please confirm your interest in partaking in the PIN by emailing Smartmeteringprogramme@scottishwater.co.uk before the deadline of 15th November 2024 at 12pm. In this email, please include the name of your organisation, company registration number, and including the job title, name, telephone number and e-mail address of the person responsible for completing the questionnaire to register your interest. Once these details have been received, applicants will be sent an email with the details of the RFI questionnaire within 48 hours. The deadline for the return of the completed questionnaire is 22nd November 2024 at 12 pm.