(b) Southern’s for Water industry national environment programme (WINEP) Water and Wastewater projects; (c) South East’s for its drinking water protected areas programme; (d) South East’s for the SRN River Medway water treatment works upgrade; (e) South East’s for a cyber security scheme; and (f) South East’s for a Security and Emergency Measures Direction (SEMD) project. 65. For all other claims raised by the Disputing Companies relating to individual assessments, we intend to focus on the arguments and supporting evidence submitted by each Disputing Company in its SoC and Ofwat and third party responses to these.
We plan to adopt the same approach as used by Ofwat in its PR24 FD to assess the case for funding. In particular, as required, we will consider the strength of the evidence on the need for the investment, the best option for customers, cost efficiency and measures taken to protect customers. In assessing detailed engineering evidence, we will use our appointed engineering advisers, Water Research Centre, to support our assessments. 66. We note that all these individual assessments were company specific (ie based on the evidence provided by the relevant company in support of its claims).
This means that any adjustments we decide to make in response to concerns raised by a Disputing Company would be unlikely to result in adjustments being made to other Disputing Company cost allowances. Other enhancement costs issues 67. The Disputing Companies have also raised concerns in relation to Ofwat’s use of uncertainty and adjustment mechanisms in the determination of enhancement cost allowances. These concerns are wide-ranging, including criticisms of the design of some mechanisms and requests for allocating more schemes to these mechanisms.
As above, in considering these claims we will focus on the arguments and supporting evidence submitted by the Disputing Companies in their SoCs, Ofwat’s response and third party submissions. Outcomes 68. Under the outcomes framework, a range of performance commitments and associated outcome delivery incentives ( ODI s) are put in place to encourage the delivery of objectives that matter to customers and the environment. Also, price control deliverables ( PCD s) set out a range of key outcomes or outputs that 18