By Lynda Myer
Including replacement of six tunnel sections (approximately 50km) of the 110km pipeline that carries drinking water from Haweswater in Cumbria to Greater Manchester, the Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme (HARP) in Cumbria welcomes bidders for a technical adviser and United Utilities handles the process.
While the connections to existing multiline siphons between the tunnel sections and associated facilities is a content of this scheme, the project is going to use a competitively appointed provider (CAP), which is currently being procured using Ofwat’s new direct procurement for customers (DPC) approach. Under the DPC, Ofwat requires the appointment of a consultant to protect customers in relation to the project.
In order to ensuring objective, independent oversight of costs that may be passed on to customers and providing robust scrutiny and assessment of the CAP’s management of project costs and delivery, the £50m technical adviser will be selected, whereas the adviser is due to act as an independent party to United Utilities, the CAP, and Ofwat.
For more information click here. The determined deadline for bids is midday on June 7.
The HARP Community Connectors – Acciona, Dragados and Iridium; More Water – FCC Construcción, SNC-Lavalin, FCC Aqualia, Webuild and BeMo Tunnelling; and Strabag Equitix Consortium – Equitix and Strabag, are the shortlisted companies by United Utilities in November 2022, for advancing the design, build, finance and maintenance contract, which includes construction work for bridges, tunnels, shafts and subways, and tunnelling works.
