UK water outsourcing market matures

Most of the UK water and sewerage companies have finalised their outsourcing plans for AMP5. Fewer contractors are getting a bigger slice of the pie.

The integrated UK water and sewerage companies are using smaller numbers of contractors to deliver their AMP5 capital expenditure programmes than they did between 2005 and 2010, in a quest for further cost efficiency.

This shift was most noticeable at Thames Water, whose capex programme of almost £5 billion is by far the largest of all the companies over the ...

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