Scottish Water announces 10 framework partners

Scottish Water has announced the first of its framework partners for the infrastructure part of its forthcoming capital investment programme.

Ten companies were appointed construction delivery partners to work on infrastructure projects with Scottish Water's in-house delivery vehicle and with its joint-venture partnership delivery vehicle Scottish Water Solutions.

Scottish Water's head of capital programme procurement, Lorna McGregor, said: “We are pleased to be able to confirm that these companies will be our infrastructure framework partners for the next regulatory period. They have the right skills and resources to meet our future needs in this area.”

The selected companies are:

• Barhale Construction
• Byzak
• Clancy Docwra
• Carillion Water
• Farrans Construction
• George Leslie
• Galliford Try Infrastructure
• Mott MacDonald Bentley
• Rok Civil Engineering
• Rosshire Engineering Services.

Scottish Water said there would be a “significant” programme of infrastructure work in the next regulatory period, which would be allocated to those companies with the most competitive rates.

A separate specialist framework is also due to be put in place for spray lining.

Scottish Water is expected to make more announcements on construction framework partnership arrangements in the coming weeks. A further two sets of partners are to be selected to work on each of the non-infrastructure and capital maintenance work.

A preferred bidder will also be appointed as the prospective joint-venture partner to Scottish Water, for Scottish Water Solutions 2, the new joint-venture partnership delivery vehicle for the next investment period.

Richard Ackroyd, Scottish Water chief executive, said: “We value our relationship with our engineering partners and we realise that many companies working on the capital programme are already looking towards the next programme. The next programme will be more in line with normal delivery programmes, averaging £500m a year.”