Anglian Water £1.5bn AMP8 framework: delivery and design notes for project teams
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on New Civil Engineer
30 Second Briefing
Anglian Water has opened procurement for a £1.5bn major projects framework covering AMP8 design-and-build works to cut pollution and upgrade water and wastewater assets across eastern England. The multi-lot framework will target schemes such as storm overflow upgrades, new or expanded treatment works and network resilience projects, with packages expected to span civils, MEICA and process engineering. Contractors will need strong track records in regulatory compliance for water quality and environmental permits, plus capacity to deliver large, multi-site programmes under tight outage and consent constraints.
Technical Brief
- Framework value capped at £1.5bn, signalling multiple £100m‑scale design-and-build packages.
- Scope spans both clean water and wastewater assets across Anglian’s eastern England operating region.
- Major schemes are expected to involve significant civils interfaces with existing live treatment infrastructure.
- MEICA and process upgrades will need to be integrated within constrained operational outage windows.
- Pollution reduction drivers imply tighter discharge consents and associated process optimisation requirements.
- Similar UK water frameworks are increasingly bundling resilience, capacity and environmental compliance into single programmes.
Our Take
Within our 615-item Infrastructure set, Anglian Water is one of the more frequently appearing UK utilities in sustainability-tagged pieces, signalling that its eastern England programmes are often used as reference points for pollution and resilience upgrades.
A framework of this scale in eastern England typically pulls in national and tier-2 contractors, and in our database such multi-year water-utility frameworks often become anchor workloads that shape regional civils capacity and pricing for other Projects-tagged schemes.
Among the 1,684 tag-matched items, relatively few combine both Contract Award and Sustainability in the water sector, so Anglian Water’s major projects framework is likely to be watched as a bellwether for how UK regulators and supply chains treat pollution-reduction capex in the next regulatory period.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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