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.