Northern Ireland Water has awarded a contract meter reading and billing services worth an estimated £2.8 million.

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

A number of methods which will be used by the team 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-based firm Echo Managed Services Ltd, one of two companies in the bidding for the work, has won the contract, which will run for an initial period of 2 years