§ Baroness Nicolasked Her Majesty's Government:
Who has been selected as the preferred bidder for the final contract for Project Aquatrine to provide water and wastewater services to MoD sites in Scotland. [HL523]
§ Lord BachNEVIS Water has today been announced as the preferred bidder for the third and final contract for Project Aquatrine which will provide water and wastewater services to MoD sites within Scotland.
Project Aquatrine is one of the Government's leading and most significant public/private partnership (PPP) projects and will transfer the responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the department's water and wastewater assets and infrastructure throughout Great Britain to private sector providers. This project will enable the transfer of environmental risk to those in the private sector 151WA who are best placed to manage it. This 25-year contact will enable the MoD to exit a non-core activity and concentrate its efforts on delivering military capability.
This contract is expected to go live in November 2004 following a pre-commencement period.
This announcement follows the appointment of BREY Utilities for Package A in April 2003, which went live on 1 December 2003 and the appointment of C2C, on 12 November 2003, as preferred bidder for Package C.