Northern Ireland Water has further extended the deadline to tender for a contract for leakage detection services worth an estimated £15 million for a second time.

NI Water intends to supplement existing in-house resources for the detection of the unreported leaks in the water distribution network via the contract. The original deadline of 11^th August was put back to 18^th August earlier this month – this has now been further extended to 29^th August 2017.

Interested suppliers will now also be able to bid for up to 4 Lots under the contract, instead of 2 Lots as set out in the original tender.

The water company has had an active leakage control policy for many years, together with a Leakage Business Plan to take forward leakage activities.

The utility said that external assistance in detection activities will be required for the next 6 years to meet targets in relation to both leakage reduction and maintenance.

Initial contract period will run for 3 years with an option to extend by 2 more annual extensions.

Click here to access the original tender documentation.