NI Water has awarded a contract for Software System Engineers (SSEs) services worth an estimated £25 million in total.
Services provided under the contract will support the water company’s customer service delivery (CSD) and asset delivery (AD) Directorates in operating, maintaining, upgrading and installing NI Water’s assets. The work will covers services at NI Water water and wastewater treatment works and other associated assets where a programmable logic controller (PLC) is utilised to regulatory and legislative standards.
Initial contract term is 4 years with two further two year extension options.
The following companies have all won places on the contract, which was tendered in two separate Lots:
- Ashdale Engineering Ltd
- BSG Civil Engineering Ltd
- Cully Automation Ltd
- Global Automation (NI) Ltd
- Murphy Process Engineering Ltd
- Profitec Solutions Ltd
- Pronto Automation Systems Ltd
- Scotts Electrical Services Ltd
- Seskilgreen
- TES Group Ltd
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