Page 5380 - Week 12 - Thursday, 28 October 2010

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Ser.	Project Element	Method of Delivery
10	Purchasing two submersible Pumps	Contractor
11	Purchasing anthracite	Contractor
12	Media analysis	Contractor
13	Unload bags from truck	Either ActewAGL or contract as available
14	Purchasing Sand	Contractor
15	Purchasing gravel / garnet	Contractor
16	Sand & Gravel analysis	Contractor
17	Unload from truck	Either ActewAGL or contract as available
18	Other store items	Contractor
19	Protection, removal & reinstatement of existing fixtures, removal of Vee Notch weir plates & reinstallation of them	In Contract No. 976/09
20	Hiring plant & Equipment	Contractor
21	Miscellaneous work	Either ActewAGL or contract as available

(k) I am advised by ACTEW that Items 6, 11, 14, 15 and 19 were procured utilising competitive tenders. This represents approximately 85 per cent of the project budget.

Items 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 16 were single select quotations and represent a further 3 per cent of the project budget. Item 7 is for the purchase of replacement filter nozzles. In this instance ActewAGL sourced the new nozzles from the original supplier to ensure compatibility with the plastic inserts cast into the concrete plenum of the filters when they were originally built.

Items 1, 2 and 3 will be provided by ActewAGL staff labour.

(l) I am advised that Contract 976/09 utilises AS2124-1992 as the General Conditions of contract. This contract nominates a Defects Liability Period of 104 weeks from the date of Practical Completion of the relevant Separable Portion for the contract. Other contracts typically will not include a particular warranty provision. No incentive fees have been allowed for in the contracts for the works.

14. ACTEW has advised that information from industry sources is that the cost of design and construction of Water Treatment Plants have ranged in price in the last 5 years between $700,000/ML and $1.3million/ML. The Stromlo Water Treatment Plant has a process design capacity of 250 ML/d. The figures used were within the stated range per ML.

15. I am advised by ACTEW that not all concrete tanks in the old plant had protective coatings. Coating was applied to some tanks to enable cleaning and to keep them clean rather than as a protective coating as the same coatings were not applied to the floors of these tanks.

ACTEW has further advised that the new plant has no coatings on the surfaces of the concrete tanks apart from the outlet of the filters - a small component of the concrete structures in contact with water. The approach was decided after the decision was made not to coat the structures at Stromlo.

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