Market Engagement Phase 2 - Hampshire Water Transfer and Water Recycling Project

Market Engagement - This is Phase 2 of an ongoing Market Engagement exercise. Southern Water is planning to deliver a construction project to provide long-term water supply resilience to Hampshire. It will include Tunnelling. Southern Water will utilise a Competitively Appointed Provider (CAP) to deliver the project which is to be procured using Ofwat’s new Direct Procurement for Customers (DPC) approach. An initial Periodic Indicative Notice (2022/S 000-003206) was published in February 2022, inviting market views and setting out our proposed procurement and commercial approach. Southern Water is looking to continually test the market's interest for the Design, Build, Financing, Maintenance and Operation of the project. Market Engagement will be over several phases over several months. Southern Water is keen to keep the market updated on progress as the project matures. Southern Water will additionally provide a pre-read pack as part of this engagement and has also developed a list of questions relating to the information provided. Any answers provided to this Request for Information (RFI) will be valuable and will be used, where necessary, to inform and develop Southern Water’s current understanding of the market and how we can best deliver value for money to our customers. The deadline for responding to this RFI is Friday 2nd December 2022. As this is a follow up to previous engagements, and given our wish to cover commercial, technical and financial aspects relating to the Design, Build, Finance, Operation and Maintenance of the Project, suppliers are encouraged to attend the one-to-one meetings with their potential partnering organisations.