Northern Ireland Water has awarded a contract for leakage management services with an estimated value of £7.8 million to four suppliers.
Under the contract, the suppliers will provide NI Water with a range of leakage management services.
NI Water is continuing to report company leakage and drive down company and customer side losses in a variety of ways, including:
- pro-active and re-active leakage detection activity
- capital infrastructure investments
- data improvements through network flow
- pressure and asset analysis
- leakage component reviews.
RPS Environmental Management Ltd, WRC plc, Crowder & Co Ltd and E. Mcmullan Ltd have all won places on the three year contract, which was divided into the following four Lots:
Lot 1: Leakage Infrastructure Capital Improvements
Lot 2: Specialised Leakage Studies
Lot 3: Meter Validation Review
Lot 4: Leakage System Developments.
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