30 | Alliances 2014 SMB ready to deliver the best solutions
Partners: Skanska; MWH; Balfour Beatty Customer: Thames Water Contract: Design & build partner for AMP6 Term: 23 months Early Contractor Involvement; 5yr contract from April 2015
SMB IS a new consortium that will be a design & build partner for Thames Water’s AMP6 capital investment programme. The consortium is one of the four partners appointed to the Thames Water Alliance (see p20), initially as part of the utility’s Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) scheme.
The SMB Alliance has brought together Skanska, MWH Global and Balfour Beatty.
Skanska is a leading project development and construction groups, and the UK operation is one of the country’s top ten contractors. It has been responsible for building some of the UK’s iconic structures like the Gherkin in London and the QEII Bridge at Dartford.
Peter Jones, alliance board representative, said SMB’s “really strong team brings a range of capabilities that will add real value to the alliance”.
John Abraham, SMB director, is passionate that the alliance
partners will work together to find “affordable and sustainable solutions” to help Thames Water provide safe and reliable services for today’s customers and future generations.
MWH Global provides services for the full range of water-related projects including water supply and treatment, wastewater treatment, networks and storage. It has designed or constructed close to 500 water treatment plants, 800 wastewater treatment plants, 200 reservoirs, 1,000
pumping stations and thousands of miles of pipeline around the world.
Balfour Beatty delivers major infrastructure projects that include water, transport, power, energy, mining, hospitals and schools.
Colin Kelly, SMB director, said that SMB is committed to ensuring Thames Water’s pipes, sewers and other facilities are fit to serve future generations through “great leadership, people, processes and systems”.
Maintaining assets in the North-west
Partners: Enterprise; United Utilities Customer: United Utilities Contract: Maintaining and renewing clean and wastewater assets Term: Yr4 of 5yr-contract, with potential extensions Value: £400M from 2010- 2015
ENTERPRISE AND United Utilities (UU) make up the United Utilities Network Maintenance Alliance, maintaining and renewing clean and wastewater assets on behalf of the utility.
The scope of works com- prises a wide range of mainte- nance activities across the en- tire North-west, and supports United Utilities’ provision of clean and wastewater services in the region delivering further improvements in cost and effi- ciency.
United Utilities spends around £600M a year across its water and wastewater distribution networks to support the capital investment programme, and its capital programmes spend for the current AMP cycle is around £3B.
Responsibility is split between two sub-categories, one for direct procurement (tier 1 contractors and partners) and
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one for suppliers of goods and services that can be used by the utility’s Tier1 contractors and partners.
Typical Tier 1 contracts include: • Network Alliance – work in the highways or public/ private land, including planned and unplanned repairs to our networks
• Process Alliance – work on United Utilities’ treatment works
UU is now starting the process of letting contracts and framework agreements for AMP6. Some of AMP6 contracts and frameworks will be awarded for up to 12 years, and may extend into AMP7.
The QEII Bridge at Dartford was delivered by Skanska
UU spends around £600M a year across its water and wastewater distribution networks
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