Operational Technology and Digital Engineering Services
Scottish WaterEstimated Value
Up to £68,000,000
Deadline
9 June 2025
Published
9 May 2025
Type
services
Overview
Scottish Water is looking for organisations to provide expertise to support delivery of Scottish Water’s Operational Technology Strategy in a manner that is compliant with IEC 62443 and the NIS Directive. This new Operational Technology Services framework will be required to support, assure, design and deliver relevant projects within our Digital Portfolio as well as the Transformation workstreams and the wider Scottish Water Capital Programme; including supporting Scottish Water Horizons and our PFI transitions.
There will be two lots with one covering the Consultancy and Assurance elements and the other supporting deployment of solutions. Further information and context and our digital strategy can be found in the PQQ overview document.
Lot 1 – Operational Technology Consultancy and Assurance This lot will assess across the following three areas:-
Additional details
Operational Technology Strategy and Technology roadmap support. Project Management services Design and Assurance
Lot 2 – Operational Intelligence and Digital Engineering Services This lot will be divided into three distinct service areas which will be assessed and awarded separately.
Deployment and Maintenance of Sensors and Smart Assets Deployment and Maintenance of Remote-control solutions Digital Engineering - Design and Enablement Partners All projects will have the objective of ensuring scalability and flexibility for future technological advancements. The scope of work may include the following on a project-by-project basis survey (intrusive and non-intrusive as appropriate), design, systems integration, migration planning, migration, testing, software installation and commissioning.
It may also include the supply of software, training and documentation. Scottish Water seeks partners who will support deployment and maintenance of technologies to support our operational intelligence journey.
This lot will cover three separate services - deployment of sensors and smart assets, deployment of remote control solutions and digital engineering enablement partners. The estimated value range of expenditure under this lot is between £29 million to £57 million.
This range is based on historic service spend and envisaged investment under the next framework period. There is however no guarantee of any minimum volume of work under this framework agreement.
Additional information: To access this opportunity, please register using the following link - https://atamis-scottishwater.my.salesforce-sites.com/ProS... Scottish Water is seeking partners to support with delivery of Operational Technology Strategy, Design, Architecture, Implementation and Testing Assurance services to support the assurance of OT delivery across Scottish Water.
The estimated value range of expenditure under this lot is between £8 million to £11 million. This range is based on historic service spend and envisaged investment under the next framework period.
There is however no guarantee of any minimum volume of work under this framework agreement. Additional information: To access this opportunity; please register using the following link - https://atamis-scottishwater.my.salesforce-sites.com/ProS...
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9 May 2025
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