According to reports on Utility Week the move was announced at a supplier event and will see a new alliance formed by April 2013 of four design and build partnerships, a programme manager and a “technology innovator”.
This alliance will then mould the company’s 2015-2020 asset management plan, but the move is still subject to approval from British regulator, Ofwat.
Speaking to Utility Week Lawrence Gosden, capital delivery director for Thames Water said: “We are moving towards a huge alliance model – a single alliance which will help us to deal with some pretty huge challenges.”
He added that the move has been driven by the need to keep bills low while having to deal with deteriorating assets. Gosden said: “Those two elements don’t really combine, so we need to do something very very different. Pulling a team together from the best part of the market gives us the best chance to deal with those issues.”
