{"id":33664,"date":"2025-12-18T12:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/scottish-water-names-preferred-firms-for-9bn-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:39:15","slug":"scottish-water-names-preferred-firms-for-9bn-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/scottish-water-names-preferred-firms-for-9bn-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Water names preferred firms for \u00a39bn upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In what will become one of the UK\u2019s biggest long-term delivery alliances, the utility giant will form a new enterprise partnership to upgrade water and wastewater assets from 2027 to 2033, with an option to extend to 2039. <\/p>\n<p>The enterprise model will handle around a third of SR27 spend and is designed to integrate designers, contractors and Scottish Water teams into high-performing, outcome-driven delivery groups.<\/p>\n<div class=\"break-out-box\">\n<h3>Preferred bidders<\/h3>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Asset delivery partners<\/strong><br \/>\u2022 M Group Water<br \/>\u2022 Mott MacDonald Bentley<br \/>\u2022 Farrans<br \/>\u2022 WGM Engineering<br \/>\u2022 Ross-Shire Engineering<\/p>\n<p><strong>Primary designers<\/strong><br \/>\u2022 Stantec<br \/>\u2022 Aecom\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The line-up will operate under an advanced partnering model, with embedded Scottish Water staff, shared behavioural frameworks, minimum KPI thresholds and incentives tied to service and enterprise-wide outcomes. <\/p>\n<p>All partners will be required to utilise Scottish Water\u2019s specialist and supply-chain frameworks, working to CDM 2015 regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Capital Investment Rob Mustard said: \u201cThe Enterprise is the most significant programme of investment and way of working we have ever implemented. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt supports our goals of financial sustainability, customer and service excellence, and going beyond net zero, all while contributing to a flourishing Scotland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said Primary Designers will carry full design accountability, while Asset Delivery Partners will drive programme performance and delivery of capital works across Scotland. <\/p>\n<p>Scottish Water aims to deliver the programme of works under an Enterprise model of delivery. This bespoke contract will be based on the NEC4 Alliance model.<\/p>\n<p>Procurement is due to conclude in March 2026, triggering a seven-year delivery window through to March 2033, with the option of a six-year extension.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2025\/12\/18\/scottish-water-names-preferred-firms-for-9bn-upgrade-programme\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In what will become one of the UK\u2019s biggest long-term delivery alliances, the utility giant will form a new &#8230; <a title=\"Scottish Water names preferred firms for \u00a39bn upgrade\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/scottish-water-names-preferred-firms-for-9bn-upgrade\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Scottish Water names preferred firms for \u00a39bn upgrade\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}