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Scottish Water is seeking to appoint suitably experienced Asset Delivery Partners and Primary Designer(s) and to deliver our SR27 and SR33 programme of capital works. SR27 is the regulatory period spanning from April 2027 until March 2033. SR33 is the regulatory period spanning from April 2033 until March 2039. Scottish Water aim to award this procurement by March 2026. It will run for a fixed period of seven years until March 2033 with an option to extend for a further six years until March 2039.

The Construction, Design and Management (CDM) 2015 Regulations will apply. Successful bidders will be required to utilise Scottish Waters Supply Chain and Specialist Frameworks.

To deliver the Capital Investment Programme SW is creating an Enterprise, an advanced partnering supply chain model which includes Asset Delivery Partners (ADP) and Primary Designer(s) (PD) working together in high performing integrated teams to deliver programmes of work.

The Enterprise model will have a dynamic outcome-based set of measures, with partners incentivised against service sub-programme and Enterprise outcomes and SW will have embedded resources within the Enterprise. There will also be minimum business performance thresholds in the form of KPI’s.

The Enterprise will incorporate enhanced partnering capabilities and a behavioural environment supporting closer resource integration, combined with a trading environment that also supports this approach. This will deliver affordability to support our investment targets, whilst also being adaptable and flexible enough to support changing requirements.

There will be collective focus on Beyond Zero Harm which helps us drive towards improving health, safety and wellbeing and partners will support Scottish Waters Beyond Net Zero ambitions.

This enterprise model procurement will be structured into two Lots: Lot 1 Primary Designer/s, Lot 2 Asset Delivery Partners

Scottish Water is seeking to appoint a strategic partner(s) for the provision of Primary Designer services. This will provide assistance with the Strategic programme development, design and delivery of its Investment Programme and will cover improvement works associated with all Water and Wastewater assets across Scotland. This may include new assets, renewals, modification, maintenance, refurbishments, extensions and enhancements to existing assets. It is a requirement that bidders must be capable to act as the Principal Designer role under the Construction, Design and Management (CDM) 2015 Regulations, this includes pre construction responsibilities.

Estimated contract value across the framework for a 13 year period, expected to commence April 2026 is in the range of £600 million to £1.3bn.
The Primary Designer will be engaged to provide strategic support, studies, design and technical services at pre, during and post construction, ensuring successful delivery of infrastructure and non-infrastructure programs. They will enhance and maintain a standard design and product library driving process engineering, Nature Based Solutions (NBS) and low carbon products and processes. The Primary Designer will maximise the use of repeatable designs and processes to deliver projects ensuring successful delivery of infrastructure and non-infrastructure programmes of work.
The appointed primary designer(s) is expected to work with Scottish Water and Enterprise Partners over the duration of this agreement to develop effective collaboration, which may include the negotiation of incentive mechanisms, sharing of risk, co-location with multi-agency teams and secondment.

SW Primary designer will be required to support the Enterprises end to end processes, the Partner(s) that will provide Scottish Water’s Primary Designer services will support:

• Support Scottish Water Scottish Water Strategic Ambitions of; Service excellence, Beyond net zero emissions and Great value and financial sustainability.
• The design and development of solutions for delivery by framework delivery partners or tendered contractors.
• Create and develop design specifications, drawings, and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with internal teams to align designs with operational and maintenance requirements.
• Holds end to end accountability for project design.
• Ensure compliance with SW requirements, relevant industry standards and regulations.
• Manage Scottish Water’s standard products and design library whilst working with the wider SW supply chain.
• Integration of Primary Designer outcomes with Common Data Environment (CDE) as required ensuring compliance with key areas e.g. file locations, file integrity, format etc
• Drive standardisation in design and design management, low carbon products and processes and innovation across programmes and supply chains.
• The study, investigation, data collection, modelling and identification of water and wastewater service related performance improvement requirements.
• The provision of modelling support to info