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Infrastructure Provider for the Thames Tideway Tunnel Project.

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The Thames Tideway Tunnel project will modernise London's sewerage system, delivering environmental and economic benefits to the UK's capital for generations. A major new sewer, the ‘Thames Tideway Tunnel’, is urgently needed to provide long overdue and necessary additional sewer capacity to protect the River Thames from increasing pollution. It will help tackle the problem of the capital's Victorian sewers overflowing into the River Thames and enable the UK to meet European environmental standards. The Thames Tideway Tunnel will run to approximately 25 km and up to 70 m deep underground (requiring excavation), broadly following the River Thames and will connect with Thames Water Utilities Limited's (‘Thames Water’) existing sewer network. On 4.6.2014, the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (‘Defra’) issued a notice specifying the Thames Tideway Tunnel as a ‘specified infrastructure project’ (‘Specification Notice’) under the Water Industry (Specified Infrastructure Projects) (English Undertakers) Regulations 2013 (‘SIP Regulations’) and a further preparatory work notice describing preparatory work that Thames Water is permitted or required to undertake for the Project (‘Preparatory Work Notice’). These notices took effect from 5.6.2014. A copy of the Specification Notice and the Preparatory Work Notice can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/thames-tideway-tunnel-project-specification-and-preparatory-work-notices Pursuant to the SIP Regulations, Thames Water was required to tender the project that has been specified and is prohibited from carrying out that project except for the work described in the Preparatory Work Notice. Pursuant to this contract notice, Thames Water is putting the design, construction, ownership, operation of the Thames Tideway Tunnel project together with the associated financing (the ‘Project’) out to tender. Following the tender of the Project, Thames Water has selected a party to finance, design, construct, own and operate the Project on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender and the Water Services Regulation Authority (‘Ofwat’) has designated the successful bidder, Bazalgette Tunnel Limited as an ‘infrastructure provider’ (as that term is defined in the SIP Regulations) (‘Infrastructure Provider’) pursuant to regulation 8(1) of the SIP Regulations and with effect from 24.8.2015 has granted it a Project licence (‘Project Licence’).The Infrastructure Provider will now commence the Project and on 24.8.2015 entered into a number of contracts in relation to these responsibilities. These are as the procurement documents issued to bidders that were selected to tender for the Infrastructure Provider.

Infrastructure Provider for the Thames Tideway Tunnel Project.

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