Waste Tankering and Cleaning Services
Thames Water Utilities Limited
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- 90513700 Sludge transport services
What happened
Thames Water Utilities Limited awarded this contract to A BETTER SERVICE LTD on 14 May 2026. The contract runs until 31 Mar 2029.
Description
Lot 1 - Flow Management: Waste Tankering Services, mainly reactive works
•Direct award only, no mini competitions, panel of 8 suppliers
Lot 2 - Sewage Treatment Works and Wet Well Cleans: Flow Management, Cleaning, and Related Works, reactive works as well as planned works
•Direct award only, no mini competitions, panel of 6 suppliers
Lot 3 - Resilience and Quoted Works: Flow management, Sewage Treatment Works, Wet Well Cleans. Overflow of Lots 1 and 2 and reactive. Thames Water may required utilisation of labour to drive Thames Water vehicles.
•Planned Work: Mini competition, additional 8 suppliers together with the suppliers in Lots 1 and 2
•Reactive Work: Direct award to the additional 8 suppliers
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Lot 3
Thames Water requires specialist cleaning services for Sewage Treatment Works and reactive/planned cleaning of sewage pumping stations. This includes activities such as wet well cleaning, flow management, waste disposal, and other related technical services across all Thames Water regions. Routine maintenance and minor cleaning tasks are typically handled by Thames Water's internal teams, who engage external suppliers on an ad-hoc basis when specialist labour or equipment is needed.
In addition, Thames Water requires reactive and planned tanker resources for intersiting movements to support operations across its sites and networks. These services are essential to maintaining performance and preventing environmental incidents such as sewage escapes.
Lastly Thames Water may request the supplier to provide labour only HGV drivers to support other workstreams this resource is likely to be seasonal based or incident/event driven.
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