Southern Water — the £792 million ($996 million) UK utility enterprise — is on the hunt for expertise suppliers to participate in a £358 million ($450 million) framework deal which incorporates assist deciding on and implementing a substitute for its present SAP ERP system.
The deal is below the water firm’s Expertise Service Companion Framework Settlement, which is ready to final 4 years, with an choice to increase for an additional four-year interval. The whole worth is barely indicative utility isn’t certain to spend the entire £358 million determine with profitable suppliers.
Particulars of the procurement are printed in a pre-competition discover, which says suppliers can compete for eight heaps, together with digital and technical companies, company system companies, operational expertise companies, enterprise data administration, knowledge and analytics, technique and structure, high quality and course of companies, and infrastructure.
Underneath the outline for company methods companies, the discover outlines plans for the present and future asset administration interval set out by regulator Ofwat.
The present AMP7 began in 2020 and ends in 2025, throughout which Southern Water is searching for “steady funding within the company applied sciences which embrace enterprise purposes like SAP, Success elements and Workday.”
Additionally it is searching for implementation companies for brand new ERP answer supporting the client companies, finance and procurement. Within the subsequent five-year funding interval, beginning 2025, the utility is searching for assist in its ERP software program choice.
The corporate makes use of a mix of enterprise purposes, together with these from Oracle, however its monetary accounting software program platform comes from SAP.
The tender additionally particulars funding in knowledge and analytics. In its present funding interval, Southern Water is concentrated on knowledge warehousing and lakes, knowledge integration, knowledge analytics and the event of enterprise intelligence software program. From 2025, it is going to search assist with tasks together with knowledge manipulation, visualization, machine studying, deep studying, and mannequin deployment.
In 2021, Southern Water — which supplies water companies throughout southern England from Hampshire to Kent — named IBM, Tata Consultancy Providers, and Wipro amongst 13 winners on a £50 million deal to assist construct and handle purposes.
The corporate has a relationship with UK outsourcing agency Capita for front-office buyer contact, back-office transaction processing, debt administration, invoice printing, mail and inbound correspondence dealing with below a deal set to finish in 2025. ®
