Anglian awards WRMP and digital services contracts

Anglian Water has appointed Mott MacDonald to help prepare its water resources management plan (WRMP) for 2024.

The consultant group will work with the water company to develop its strategic regional resource options in tandem with nationwide supply resilience planning.

Mott MacDonald, which has worked with Anglian on this area since 2016, will contribute to the WRMPs for AMP8 and beyond. The plan will include a supply forecast, supply-side strategy, demand forecast and demand management strategy. Environmental protection and improving social outcomes will be central themes.

Mott MacDonald will work with environmental monitoring service provider Five Rivers and Decision Lab to provide modelling, optimisation, simulation, data science and artificial intelligence to deliver the plans.

The frameworks are expected to run to March 2026, with the option to extend until 2029 to support long-term planning.

Elsewhere, the water company has appointed technology firm Aiimi to provide its data and digital services framework under a £24 million contract running for eight years.

Aiimi will support Anglian’s in-house capabilities including on design sprints, hackathons and user experience and interface design.

Anglian’s data has contributed to Aiimi’s development of an AI-powered “insight engine” that will help the company achieve its AMP7 goals and improve asset performance, customer information, leakage management, and overall efficiency.

Steve Salvin, chief executive at Aiimi, said: “We are not just an external delivery partner; we really care about what they need to achieve and are excited to continue to support them through to the end of the current asset management plan period in 2025 – and hopefully beyond.”