Water industry - Scottish Government Investment Group - Committed List performance progress report: quarter 3 2023/24

3. Indicator of Progress of Overall Delivery

The Indicator of Progress of Overall Delivery (IPOD) provides a high-level measurement of Scottish Water's progress in delivering the Committed List for projects over £1.0m. It assesses the progress of these investment projects monitored across 3 delivery gates combining this information to give an overall score.

When projects are added to the Committed List, each milestone is allocated 1 point. Each quarter, the number of points achieved by reaching gates is assessed against the baseline level for the previous quarter (lower limit) and the subsequent quarter (upper limit). These points are shown as absolute scores. Scottish Water is considered to be within the target range where the number of points gained lies within the lower and upper limits.

At the end of December 2023 (Q3 2023/24), Scottish Water's IPOD position was within target range at 787 points, against a range of 757 to 872 points. (Figure 1).

The green line in the figure above shows the aggregate of the forecast dates in the Committed List (the baseline). The solid blue bars show Scottish Water's actual position, and the light blue bars show the forecast position for future months. The green area above shows the + or – 3 months target range (i.e., the baseline from the previous and subsequent quarters respectively). Being above this shows that Scottish Water is more than 3 months ahead of the baseline and being below this shows that Scottish Water is more than 3 months behind the baseline.

Figures 2, 3 and 4 below show the IPOD position at Q3 2023/2024 by individual milestone.

IPOD – Start On Site

24 projects started on site during Q3 bringing the total number of projects achieving the Start On Site (SOS) milestone to 219 with performance being in the top half of the range of 186 to 230 points.

IPOD – Acceptance

22 projects achieved acceptance during Q3, bringing the total number of completed projects delivering benefit to customers to 291 which is within the target range, albeit at the lower threshold. The target range is 291 to 333 points.

Explanation of this movement can be found in Sections 4 & 5. Full details of the projects on the water and wastewater portfolios are now shared regularly with DWQR and SEPA.

IPOD – Financial Completion

20 projects achieved financial completion during Q3, taking the total achieved to 277 which is out with the target range of 280 to 309 points. Achievement of this milestone is forecast to recover and be in target range by end of Q4.