Thames Water has today gone out to tender with a major contract for water treatment chemicals worth an estimated £74.76 million in total.
The water company is looking to put a framework agreement in place for the supply and delivery of a wide range of chemicals that are used in their clean water production and waste water treatment processes. The chemical portfolio in scope includes inorganic chemicals, and iron salts and aluminium salts.
The contract is being tendered in three separate Lots.
Lot 2 for the supply and delivery of iron salts includes ferric sulphate, ferric chloride, ferrous sulphate and ferrous choride, while Lot 3 for aluminium salts covers poly aluminium chloride (PAC) 10%/18% and aluminium ferric sulphate.
Thames Water is reserving the right to award the contract via a number of options, including splitting lots by regional demarcation, by strategic sites and satellite sites, waste sites, clean sites or for a combination of both waste and clean sites.
During the agreement the company may also look to explore and introduce and adopt an inventory management service model for the management of their chemical portfolio. Suppliers will therefore need to be able to demonstrate that they have the experience and the capability to facilitate an autonomous chemical management process.
Contracts awarded under the framework agreement will run for an initial term of 5 years with options to extend the agreement up to a further 3 years.