Public utilities

Tender description

This is a contract award notice. The scope of this tender covered Southern Water's requirements for provision of AMP 7 commercial services to support the core commercial team in undertaking pre and post contract activity, and Southern Water's requirement for a packaged fully managed cost intelligence function. The services were tendered in two lots as described within tender documents. A fully integrated cost intelligence service provision to provide all 3 core Components of the cost intelligence function including but not limited to: — capital programme/scheme estimations – AMP7 BAU and AMP8 price review capital programme cost performance measurement, cost modelling/analysis, cost change control modelling and general capital delivery team support activities, — cost assurance of supply chain and Southern Water’s costs, — external benchmarking of the Southern Water capital programme and its component elements, — maintenance of cost libraries and cost curves at component, functional and process levels. To provide cost management support services including to the existing Southern Water commercial team. Key strategic commercial resource provider and business advisor within the commercial management team. As and when required Southern Water will require high quality professionals into the following posts: — senior commercial manager — commercial manager — senior commercial specialist — commercial specialist. However the service provider is expected to act as more than a means to access resource and must be a key commercial advisor to Southern Water bringing experience of innovative systems and practices, state of the art procedures and established approaches. Full details of requirements outlined in tender documents.