Integrated Platform for Networks

Concepts

• bradford
• network spills
• the wastewater network
• network
• platform
• integrated
• integrating
• networks
• seamless data flow
• data gaps

Location

Description

YW seek an integrated platform as managing separate, disconnected systems for each functionality creates operational inefficiencies, increases the risk of data gaps, and complicates timely decision-making. Having all required capabilities within a single, unified solution ensures a holistic view of the network, seamless data flow between modules, and faster, more effective operational responses. The integrated platform must deliver all of the following functionalities within a single, unified solution (not as separate modules across different, disconnected systems): - Blockage Prediction: Identifies early signs of potential blockages within the wastewater network, based on abnormal patterns detected through flow or level data. This enables proactive maintenance to prevent incidents before customer impact or pollution occurs. - Network Spill Forecasting: Estimates the likelihood of network spills based on rainfall, capacity, and system behaviour. The goal is to trigger early operational interventions to avoid environmental non-compliance and reduce pollution events. - Pumping Station: Tracks pump activity across the network, identifying underperformance, abnormal operation, or potential failures. This helps improve operational visibility, reduce downtime, and support asset efficiency. - Customer Sewer Alarm (CSA): Provides alerting mechanisms in customer-facing parts of the network where issues such as blockages or overflows could lead to property flooding. It allows for early warnings before customers are affected using both digital and analog pressure data. - Burst Rising Main Detection: Assure accurate burst detection to prevent and reduce the impact of pollution from pressurised sewage mains; - Excess Water Detection: Detects excess water entering the wastewater network from sea, river, ground or misconnected rainwater, causing spills, damage and inefficiencies. The platform must be fully developed and commercially available. For clarity this means the product is not in early-stage development, not unproven, and not awaiting first deployment or first operational results. The solution must have already demonstrated successful outcomes with other water companies, preferably within the UK and particularly with other WASCs. The platform must be capable of integrating with core utility systems (e.g., SCADA, telemetry, SAP, GIS) and must meet minimum interoperability requirements to interpret data from devices and sensors currently deployed in our network.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

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Legal Justification

Yorkshire Water conducted a market engagement exercise, for which a Market Engagement Notice (2025/S 000-055964) dated 11 September 2025 was published, to which 10 companies submitted responses. This market engagement exercise was carried out to understand whether there were suppliers capable of delivering a single, fully-integrated platform covering the six required functionalities/modules (blockage prediction, network spill forecasting, pumping station, customer sewer alarm, burst rising main detection and excess water detection). The solution needed to be commercially available, already deployed with proven outcomes in other water companies (particularly UK WASCs) and ready for immediate use rather than still in development or awaiting first implementation. This is as Yorkshire Water are prioritising mitigation of the risks in implementation and risks of poor outcomes. The engagement demonstrated that no supplier, other than the proposed contractor, was able to provide all required capabilities within one integrated platform with proven operational benefits. Other suppliers could only offer partial coverage, standalone modules, solutions still under development, or platforms without sufficient evidence of successful implementation in comparable UK networks. As a result, a competitive tendering process would not generate genuine competition. For these reasons, a direct award is justified a feasible route to securing the required integrated solution with proven performance, interoperability with our systems, and readiness for deployment.

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