Hydrated lime

Tender description

Southern Water is looking for to contract with a maximum of 3 suppliers for the Supply and Management of Liquid (Hydrated) Lime. Southern Water currently request that lime is supplied to specific sites by split deliveries (aka ‘milk-rounds’), therefore, a desired behaviour from the contracted supplier(s) is the ability and willingness to operate the contract under a vendor inventory management (VIM) arrangement. This will allow the supplier(s) to pro-actively schedule deliveries and make full use of their delivery capacity, ensuring they consistently deliver best value to SW and are able to reduce the administrative workload of SW operational staff. Southern Water is looking for to contract with a maximum of 3 suppliers for the Supply and Management of Liquid (Hydrated) Lime. Southern Water currently request that lime is supplied to specific sites by split deliveries (aka ‘milk-rounds’), therefore, a desired behaviour from the contracted supplier(s) is the ability and willingness to operate the contract under a vendor inventory management (VIM) arrangement. This will allow the supplier(s) to pro-actively schedule deliveries and make full use of their delivery capacity, ensuring they consistently deliver best value to SW and are able to reduce the administrative workload of SW operational staff.