NI Water has awarded a contract worth £460,000 appointing a service based provider of a customer satisfaction feedback system.
Under the contract, the successful supplier will provide a technological solution which has the capability to supply near time or real time feedback on the levels of satisfaction from a greater number of customers.
The water company is expecting that this will provide the business with actionable data to drive improvements and enable it to become a truly customer focussed business. The service will be available on a hosted, managed service basis, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week 365 days a year.
London-based company Watermelon Research Ltd has won the £460K contract, one of three firms in the bidding for the work.
Uniwater has acquired Hy-Ram Engineering, a specialist in tooling, products and hire for the water sector, based in Mansfield, England.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.

Southern Water has released film and images showing what it’s like to walk inside Hampshire’s expanded Yew Hill underground reservoir for the very last time, before it gets filled with water.
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