NW2505 - Supply of Telemetry Outstations

Northumbrian Water Limited (NWL) is seeking to approve a manufacturer/supplier onto a framework for the provision of a range of new telemetry outstation equipment required to replace Northumbrian Water Limited's existing ageing and unsupportable / obsolete telemetry outstations, up to three suppliers in total.

Northumbrian Water Limited (NWL) is carrying out a phased replacement of its obsolete telemetry outstation equipment and has commenced a project to replace up to a total of 1300 outstations over a 5-10 year period.

NWL have a range of asset and process types that will need to be accommodated by the replacement telemetry outstation. The unit must be scalable and modular in terms of the ability to expand its size to meet increasing I/O monitoring. In order to optimise its design, supportability and maintenance requirements, the unit should be based on a small range of devices.

The expectation is that the range of telemetry outstations required to cover NWL's assets and process types will include micro, small, medium and large telemetry outstations. Together with various I/O types and sizes, communications mediums and protocols.

It should be noted that the migration of the existing outstation estate to the successful replacement outstations will carried out by NWL in a number of ways:

a) Pro-active phased replacement project using NWL's framework system integrators, or

b) Reactive replacement by NWL's internal maintenance department, or

c) Planned replacement as part of a larger project using NWL's framework contractors

In each case the equipment will be based on a replacement criteria associated with the asset type, risk criteria and cost.

It is anticipated that the range of telemetry equipment shall have a product life of 15 Years and that the supplier shall maintain spares for this period.

The Manufacturer/supplier will need to be capable of providing support and maintenance facilities for the telemetry equipment throughout the product life. These shall include:

•Technical support on the configuration and programming of the units

•Software and firmware version updates

•Training on the installation, commissioning and diagnostics related to the Outstations

•Telemetry outstation fault diagnosis and repair facilities

•The provision of detailed technical installation, operation and maintenance manuals for the products.