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Mott MacDonald has been selected by United Utilities to provide professional services including commercial assurance and audit, commercial and capital delivery resource, and estimating under its AMP8 frameworks procurement. The global engineering, management and development consultancy is the only supplier organisation to win a place on all three service framework lots.
Credit: United Utilities
United Utilities is the UK's largest listed water company, managing the water and wastewater network for over seven million people across the North West of England. Mott MacDonald will build on its close working relationship established with United Utilities in AMP 6 & 7 to deliver a range of professional services through its advisory and programme delivery teams. These include cost estimating, cost assurance audits on capital projects, quantity surveying, project and programme management capability, project controls and a range of associated advisory and capital delivery services.
Rachel Ellison, Mott MacDonald’s managing director for advisory and programme delivery, said: “The challenges faced through AMP8 are varied and testing, from climate change adaptation and improving water quality to affordability and meeting the demands of population growth in the North West. We look forward to working with United Utilities through the AMP8 period and during this significant period of investment in the North West.”
Mott MacDonald will deliver its range of project delivery solutions to United Utilities throughout the AMP8 lifecycle that runs from 2025 to 2030.
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