Waste Tankering and Cleaning Services

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    "name": "THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED"
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  "date": "2025-09-02T14:48:02+01:00",
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    "description": "Lot 1 - Flow Management: Waste Tankering Services, mainly reactive works\n    \u2022Direct award only, no mini competitions, panel of 8 suppliers\nLot 2 - Sewage Treatment Works and Wet Well Cleans: Flow Management, Cleaning, and Related Works,  reactive works as well as planned works\n    \u2022Direct award only, no mini competitions, panel of 6 suppliers\nLot 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. \n    \u2022Planned Work: Mini competition, additional 8 suppliers together with the suppliers in Lots 1 and 2\n    \u2022Reactive Work: Direct award to the additional 8 suppliers",
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        "description": "Lot 1\nThames 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.",
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        "description": "Lot 2 \nThames 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.",
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        "description": "Lot 3\nThames 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\u0027s internal teams, who engage external suppliers on an ad-hoc basis when specialist labour or equipment is needed.\nIn 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.\nLastly 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.",
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    "mainProcurementCategory": "services",
    "procedure": {
      "features": "Suppliers\u0027 PSQ submissions will be scored and shortlisted in accordance with the criteria set out within the PSQ documentation, and the suppliers that are shortlisted will be invited to submit a proposal in response to the ITN.\nAfter tenders have been submitted, evaluated, and negotiated, the successful supplier will be awarded according to the percentage weightings and criteria set out in the ITN Process document. Full details of the process that will be followed are provided within the PSQ and ITN documents."
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        "description": "Lot 1 - Flow Management: Waste Tankering Services\nLot 2 - Sewage Treatment Works and Wet Well Cleans: Waste Tankering Services, Cleaning and Related Works\nLot 3 - Resilience and Quoted Works: Waste Tankering Services, Sewage Treatment Works and Wet Well Cleans",
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