DfI awards £41m of environmental deals

The Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure (DfI) has announced five new environmental maintenance contracts, worth a total value of £41.25m.

The contracts cover a range of maintenance work in five separate areas – Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon (EMS1), Cookstown, Dungannon and Magherafelt (EMW1), Derry and Strabane (EMW2), Causeway Coast and Glens (EMN1) and Belfast North and South (EME1) – including maintaining and cleaning roadside drainage systems and gullies, cleaning of road signs and controlling weed growth in road authority areas.

The first two contracts have both been awarded to Contract Services DGN LTD. The first (EMS1) has a total value of £11.5m with the second (EMW1) being valued at £9.75m, bringing the company’s total award value to £21.25m.

The third contract, EMW2, has been awarded to Road Safety Contracts LTD and is worth a total of £9.5m.

The final two contracts, EMN1 and EME1, are worth £6m and £4.5m respectively, bringing their total to £14m. The work will be carried out by Greentown Environmental LTD.

All five contracts will run for an initial two years until 2027, with the possibility of further extension at the discretion of the DfI.

For full details of the contracts, visit the Find Tender site.

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