Working with water and sewerage boards.

Boards are the most technical client in this sector. The specification is written by people who know the answer, deviation is not negotiated, and performance is measured against design rather than against effort.

Body type: Water and Sewerage Boards
Character: Technical clients · Specification led
Divisions engaged: 4 of seven
Coverage: Delta districts and beyond

How this body works

What is different about water and sewerage boards.

Scope, documentation and supervision are set up around these four things rather than around one format applied to every client.

The specification is not a starting position

It is the requirement. Where we think a specification will not perform on the ground we say so before bidding, not through a variation afterwards.

Performance is measured against design

Flow, head, residual chlorine, effluent parameters. Whether the plant ran is not the question, whether it held its numbers is.

Technical manpower has to be genuinely qualified

Pump operators and plant operators are not interchangeable with general labour, and a board will check.

Documentation feeds a technical audit

Logs, test results and maintenance records are read rather than filed. They have to be correct as well as complete.

Typically asked for

What we are usually called in to do.

Underground sewerage scheme execution to board specification
Sewage pumping station operation and maintenance
Treatment plant operation and process control
Water supply headworks and distribution operation
Pump, motor, valve and flow meter supply and servicing
Qualified technical manpower deployment

Divisions that apply

Where this usually starts.

These are the divisions a water and sewerage board most often engages. The others are available under the same contract.

C Civil Infrastructure Works Building in a live town, around traffic, services and residents. B Operation & Maintenance Keeping what is already built performing to its design figures. F Equipment & Technical Solutions Machinery specified against the duty it actually has to do. G Manpower Services Crews on site, and the statutory record to prove it.

05, Questions

Questions from bodies like yours

Do you work to board specifications rather than your own method?

Yes. Where we believe a specified method will not perform in the actual ground conditions we raise it before bidding, with the reason, rather than claiming a variation later.

Can you supply and maintain pumps and flow meters as well as operate them?

Yes. Equipment is specified against the duty point rather than the catalogue rating, and the supply includes installation, commissioning and a service arrangement.

Procuring for a water and sewerage board?

Tell us the town, the scope and the stage it has reached. We will come back with a practical approach and a realistic cost.