Northern Ireland Water has awarded a contract for a metering and billing project worth an estimated £4 million.

The contract covers resource and related equipment to supplement a Northern Ireland Water team to undertake field and office based activities associated with data reconciliation.

The water company will use a number of methods to reconcile data on the Northern Ireland Water non-domestic data set, including desktop analysis and field investigations which require external resource for a management role, an analyst role and a number of desktop and field roles. 

Walsall- headquartered firm Echo Managed Services Ltd has won the  two year+ contract, one of three companies in the bidding for the work which was originally tendered with an estimated value of £6 million.