Official UK procurement notice
Digital Twin of Water Treatment Works
Authority: THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThames Water (TW) are seeking a qualified bidder to provide a Water Treatment Works Digital Twin (WTW DT) solution as a proof-of-concept. It is expected that the solution will enhance our organisation's operational efficiency, streamline processes, and improve overall productivity allowing it to be implement at key facilities across the estate.
The DT will identify gaps in efficiencies and recommend process interventions to reduce these gaps, with an aim of delivering an ROI for the proof-of-concept of
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Industry specific software package · Software programming and consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Development of a digital twin, as a proof-of-concept project, at Chingford WTW:RenewalPublished value£2,000,000
Development of a digital twin, as a proof-of-concept project, at Chingford WTW:
- Optimise efficiency across the whole site - source to pumps. Optimisation will be in the form of recommendations for operators to conduct on a day-to-day basis, driving down costs in areas such as power and consumeables
- The digital twin solution will mimic the physical asset to allow what-if analysis, running hypothetical scenarios to understand how the physical treatment work will operate under certain conditions
- The tool should integrate advances in innovation and machine learning to help Thames in becoming more proactive: identifying changing trends that wouldn't be possible manually and outputting a preventative response to mitigate emerging events
- The digital twin should be adaptable so that it can be tailored to help solve site-specific challenges, example at Chingford algae and pH control
- The product should be able to assist in the quantification of benefits it delivers enabling ROI calculations to be drawn which will inform scalability
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Legal form for consortia
- Consortia may be required to form a legal entity prior to award
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
- Shortlisting
- As detailed in section VI.3 & PQQ.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Yes
- First published
- 1 May 2024, 14:48 BST
- Last source update
- 1 May 2024, 14:48 BST
- Authority reference
FA2150- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-014079- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-045695Find a Tender- Contract terms summary
Specified in Invitation to Negotiate Document
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Review procedure
Thames Water Utilities Limited will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
The Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (SI 2016 No 274) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
Publisher note: All suppliers who wish to respond to this contract notice must request a pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) by using the web link in Section I.3 (www.thameswater.co.uk/procurement). From your response to the link in Section I.3 or above, Thames Water's Procurement Support Centre will send you an email providing login details for our eSourcing system (i.e. IASTA Smartsource). To complete the PQQ you will need to login to IASTA Smartsource. If the project requires it, you will receive an additional and separate survey to complete for Data Protection. Note - The client may be Thames Water Utilities Limited or another company within the Kemble Water group structure
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 17 May 2024, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
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- Accepted languages
- en
- Participation fee
- document
- Bid validity
- 120 days from the deadline
- Deposits and guarantees
- Bonds and/or parent company guarantees of performance and financial standing may be required
Timeline
1 May 2024 → 17 May 2024 · 2 dates- Notice published1 May 2024, 14:48 BST
- Submission deadline17 May 2024, 12:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria