Natural water

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This PIN is issued to encourage third parties to submit proposals for solutions covering water resources, demand management or leakage services for Thames Water Utilities Ltd for consideration in the Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP24) process. These solutions will help us meet our future water needs and will be evaluated according to the bid assessment framework principles. This notice relates to an initial resources position statement (IRPS) issued by Water Resources South East (WRSE). This notice enables third parties who are interested in responding to the IRPS with solutions for Thames Water Utilities Ltd specifically. All third parties who express an interest to respond to this PIN will be treated in accordance with the principles within Thames Water Utilities Ltd’s Bid Assessment Framework (BAF); this is available openly on our website www.thameswater.co.uk/baf. The BAF provides clarity to third parties regarding how bids will be assessed in line with our key principles of transparency, equal treatment, non-discrimination and proportionality. Encouraging third parties to submit bids for solutions covering water resources, demand management and leakage services that create value for customers is very important to Thames Water Utilities Ltd. Thames Water Utilities Ltd has provided further details about its future supply requirements in its revised draft Water Resources Management Plan 19 and associated Water Resources Market Information tables. This information is complemented by the initial resource position statement published by WRSE, which describes Thames Water Utilities Ltd’s future supply requirements as in WRMP19 with further forecasting concerning the effects of climate change and environmental requirements amongst other factors. This will be used to communicate Thames Water Utilities Ltd’s (and the South East region’s) supply requirements in advance of the regional WRMP24 planning process for the South East. Further details of Thames Water Utilities Ltd's supply area, its existing water resources system, customers and the current and forecast water demand are given on its website at: https://www.thameswater.co.uk/sitecore/content/corporate/corporate/about-us/our-strategies-and-plans/water-resources. This notice should also be read in conjunction with our network access code and trading and procurement code. Water supply proposals We are open to proposals for supply options to fill our projected supply demand deficit as we plan for the future. We are under no obligation to contract as a result of this engagement. The process for how third parties will be assessed including evaluation questions and criteria can be found in our BAF referenced above. To register your interest, please visit https://www.thameswater.co.uk/procurement. For the Standard process third parties will need to register their interest by the 17 July 2020 for consideration within WRMP24. Demand and leakage services proposals The WRMP process is a strategic process to plan demand management and leakage solutions over an 80 year period to meet our future needs rather than a procurement exercise for these solution types. If a third party proposal for a demand management or leakage service is a product or service that we already deliver, we are open to being contacted to inform our market awareness, but to be considered for delivery, third parties should contact Thames Water Utilities Ltd when we next engage with the market for this specific need. If the proposal is not covered by our current activity, we would be open to hearing the proposal in response to this PIN – third parties should get in touch via https://www.thameswater.co.uk/procurement. For the Standard WRMP24 process you will need to register your interest by 17th July 2020 for consideration within WRMP24. Please note that an approach made via this PIN will not result in a contract being awarded under any circumstances; a subsequent UCR16 tender process would need to be undertaken to award a contract for such a need. This PIN is, in the case of demand and leakage services, solely notice of a market engagement exercise as described in our BAF referenced above, and this remains the case even where third parties proposing demand management or leakage services participate in the WRMP Standard process.