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The Regulatory Cycle and its Impact on the Efficiency of Supply Chain Delivery RG10-B The stop-start nature of investment in the water industry since privatisation, which has been likened to a roller coaster, looks like an inherently bad thing. Anecdotally many suppliers to the water industry have indicated the strain that it places on their businesses as order book uncertainty and shortage of work switches to burgeoning workload and lack of capacity to meet delivery timescales. However until now no one has attempted to quantify the financial impacts of the cycle on the sector. This project, supported by Ofwat, the water companies, and trade organizations British Water and Society of British Water and Wastewater Industries (SBWWI) will endeavour, for the first time to establish the costs to the sector and more importantly to identify improvements which will minimise the adverse impacts of the cycle, leading to efficiency savings, which can be passed up the supply chain, to the ultimate benefit of water company customers. You are invited to participate in UKWIR's review of the impact that the 5-year AMP investment cycle has on the water industry supply chain in England and Wales, by downloading and completing a confidential questionnaire (which can be accessed via the following link http://www.ukwir.org/content/default.asp?PageId=46340). The information from these questionnaires will help to guide future policy and practice of Ofwat and the water companies and could help to reduce the negative impacts on water industry suppliers, of the stop-start investment patterns which have prevailed in the water industry since privatisation. Please note the deadline for completion has been extended to 27 April 2007. Although none of the information you provide will be published in any way which will enable you or your company to be identified; you may should you wish, submit your response anonymously, by omitting your company name and contact details from section 1. Completed questionnaires should be e-mailed to Karen.Simpson@ewan.co.uk on or before 27th April 2007, your early returns would be appreciated.  |
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