The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland has awarded a contract for delivery of annual monitoring programme for private water supplies with an estimated value of £1.068 million.
The Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI), a unit within DAERA, has a statutory responsibility for private water supplies under the Water and Sewerage Services Order (Northern Ireland) 2006.
This is implemented through The Private Water Supplies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 which requires a sampling and analysis programme to be put in place and maintained for all private water supplies registered under these regulations (Regulations 9 -12).
DWI tendered for a supplier to undertake the collection, transportation, analysis and reporting of results for samples of drinking water taken by local council officers from private water supplies across Northern Ireland.
The contract has been awarded to Tetra Tech Consulting (NI) Ltd, one of two suppliers who tendered for the work.
Start and end contract dates are 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2028 with further two further possible extension options to 30 September 2030.
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