Anglian appoints Atkins to asset management framework

Anglian Water has appointed Atkins to its Asset Management Specialist Consultancy Framework. Atkins will provide technical services for the water firm’s physical and digital assets through the General Asset Management and Core Modelling lots.

Atkins said the deal will significantly expand its 20-year consultancy services for Anglian Water to include a “much broader base of general asset management services, encompassing strategic advisory and regulatory expertise and systems thinking.” It will include data and information asset management services which, according to Atkins, will reflect Anglian Water’s “focus on capitalising opportunities to improve its performance through the use of digital twins and technology.”

Atkins will, it said, support Anglian Water’s Love Every Drop environmental agenda through “greater evaluation and analysis of climate and biodiversity data, integrated catchment management and Sustainable Drainage to help bring social and environmental prosperity to the region they serve.”

Atkins’ Water Market Director, Richard Whale, said: “The water sector is realising the value of data and digital asset management in unlocking better performance and greater efficiency, and Anglian Water is well-positioned to build on its existing use of technology.”