Waste Tankering and Cleaning Services

A Tender Notice
by THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED

Source
Find a Tender
Type
Framework (Services)
Duration
3 year
Value
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Sector
ENVIRONMENT
Published
02 Sep 2025
Delivery
01 Apr 2026 to 31 Mar 2029
Deadline
n/a

Concepts

Location

London:

Geochart for 1 buyers and 0 suppliers

1 buyer

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
Commercial Total cost of the proposal
Terms & Conditions Acceptance of proposed Terms & Conditions
Delivery of Services Understanding of the requirements specific resources facilities response times, service levels KPI & reporting
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
Commerical Total cost of proposal
Terms & Coniditions Acceptance of proposed Terms & Conditions
Delivery of Services Understanding of the requirements specific resources facilities response times, service levels KPI & reporting
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
Commercial Total cost of proposal
Terms & Conditions Acceptance of proposed Terms & Conditions
Delivery of Service Understanding of the requirements specific resources facilities response times, service levels KPI & reporting

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

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