Yorkshire Water Services wants suppliers to bid for £125m IT Partner Framework

Services include infrastructure, SAP and application development and maintenance

Yorkshire Water Services is asking for IT companies to apply to join a proposed £125m IT Partner framework.

Successful suppliers will work alongside Yorkshire Water Services to design, develop, test, implement, support, and maintain a range of business applications, infrastructure solutions, and a range of other related areas.

The framework is split into six different service categories - infrastructure, SAP, application development and maintenance, data science, testing, and strategy and architecture.

Infrastructure relates to the "design, development, integration, implementation, maintenance, and support of a range of infrastructure technologies" such as firewalls, routers, storage and telecoms.

SAP services includes "impact assessment and planning, technology enablement, application of industry and process expertise, change management and continuous improvement of the SAP environment and related technologies".

Application development and maintenance, meanwhile, focuses on three core areas - customer (retail and wholesale), operations (clean, waste and asset management) and corporate (central functions, data and shared technologies e.g. middleware and a variety of other IT systems).

Data science includes "statistics, tools, programming, data manipulation, data visualisation, machine learning, deep learning, model deployment, scenario analysis, forecasting and prediction, planning and Azure".

And testing will account for the provision of services such as "test standards and governance, orchestration, automation, resources, software, and a range of other related services", while strategy and architecture concentrates on features like quality control and system integration.

The framework "does not give suppliers any guarantee of work", Yorkshire Water Services says, but will "enable the supplier to bid for individual pieces of work over the next five years".

It is valid for an initial period of 60 months, followed by an optional renewal in 12 month increments up to a total term of 96 months.

To express an interest in participating in the tender, contact Sohail Sardana via email ([email protected]) by 5pm on 24 September 2021.