The contract will see Mount Charles provide cleaning services at approximately 29 of Northern Ireland Water’s sites, including their offices, depots, workshops, water/wastewater treatment works and publicly accessible sites.

Commenting on the contract win Gavin Annon, Sales and Marketing Director at Mount Charles said: “We are delighted to be awarded this business by NI Water and are committed to delivering social value in this contract, particularly in the areas of work progression and skills development, health and well-being and equality, diversity and inclusion.”

Welcoming the new supplier on board, Ronan Larkin, Director of Finance, Regulation & Commercial at NI Water said, “As we continue to adopt the new public procurement policy - scoring social value within public awarded contracts, NI Water is fully committed to working with suppliers to deliver their social value promises.”

Ronan added, “Mount Charles, like many other suppliers, have an amazing opportunity to embrace social value and make a lasting impact in the communities they operate and serve in and I look forward to the many initiatives that are delivered as part of this significant step change in public procurement.

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Notes to the Editor

Northern Ireland Water was set up in 2007 to provide the water and wastewater services in Northern Ireland. The government owned company supplies 560 million litres of clean water a day for almost 1.8 million people as well as treating 320 million litres of wastewater daily.