Waste Tankering and Cleaning Services
A Tender Notice
by THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Type
- Framework (Services)
- Duration
- 3 year
- Value
- ___
- Sector
- ENVIRONMENT
- Published
- 02 Sep 2025
- Delivery
- 01 Apr 2026 to 31 Mar 2029
- Deadline
- n/a
Concepts
Location
London:
1 buyer
- Thames Water Utilities Reading
Description
Lot 1 - Flow Management: Waste Tankering Services, mainly reactive works •Direct award only, no mini competitions, panel of 8 suppliers Lot 2 - Sewage Treatment Works and Wet Well Cleans: Flow Management, Cleaning, and Related Works, reactive works as well as planned works •Direct award only, no mini competitions, panel of 6 suppliers Lot 3 - Resilience and Quoted Works: Flow management, Sewage Treatment Works, Wet Well Cleans. Overflow of Lots 1 and 2 and reactive. Thames Water may required utilisation of labour to drive Thames Water vehicles.
Lot Division
1 | Flow Management Lot 1 Thames Water requires reactive tanker resource and intersiting movements to maintain service across our sites and networks to prevent an escape of sewage into the environment. The Services are normally required and carried out on a reactive basis caused by weather or site events. Award Criteria
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2 | Sewage Treatment Works and Wet Well Cleans Lot 2 Thames Water requires Sewage Treatment Works Cleaning Services and reactive sewage pumping station cleaning services consisting of specialist cleaning activities on wet wells as well as adjacent technical services including flow management, disposal and other works related to the cleaning of pumping station wet wells and tanks across all Thames Water regions. Award Criteria
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3 | Resilience and Quoted Works Lot 3 Thames Water requires specialist cleaning services for Sewage Treatment Works and reactive/planned cleaning of sewage pumping stations. This includes activities such as wet well cleaning, flow management, waste disposal, and other related technical services across all Thames Water regions. Routine maintenance and minor cleaning tasks are typically handled by Thames Water's internal teams, who engage external suppliers on an ad-hoc basis when specialist labour or equipment is needed. In addition, Thames Water requires reactive and planned tanker resources for intersiting movements to support operations across its sites and networks. These services are essential to maintaining performance and preventing environmental incidents such as sewage escapes. Lastly Thames Water may request the supplier to provide labour only HGV drivers to support other workstreams this resource is likely to be seasonal based or incident/event driven. Award Criteria
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Renewal Options
Thames Water envisages that the contract will be awarded for an initial term of 3 years with options to extend by 1 year or longer, up to a maximum overall term of 8 years
CPV Codes
- 90513700 - Sludge transport services
Indicators
- Restrictions apply to the lot award allocation.
- Renewals are available.
Other Information
•Planned Work: Mini competition, additional 8 suppliers together with the suppliers in Lots 1 and 2 •Reactive Work: Direct award to the additional 8 suppliers ** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. **
Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-059256
- FTS 053217-2025