Aquatrine delayed


A decision on a preferred bidder for the final package of the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) £1.1bn Project Aquatrine has been postponed until the New Year.

An announcement on Package B of the PPP was originally due by the year-end, but is now not likely until January at the earliest.

Two consortia are in the running to provide water and wastewater services for Scotland: Brey Utilities (Yorkshire Water Services, Earth Tech Engineering and Halliburton Brown & Root) and Nevis Water (Thames Water and Scottish Water). A spokesman for Defence Estates gave no reason for the delay.

Package A was awarded to Brey Utilities in April 2003, while the C2C consortium was selected for Package C, covering the north and east of England.


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