G4S wins British Gas Business Smart metering contract
25 November 2010
G4S Utility Services, one of the UK’s largest national providers of metering services, has been awarded a three year £12m contract to deliver full end to end Smart metering services including smart & legacy MOP to British Gas Business across Wales, the Midlands and South of England
The contract covers comprehensive electricity and gas metering services across the southern half of mainland United Kingdom and will commence on a staged basis which began in October 2010.
Kim Challis, Managing Director of G4S Utility Services, commented:"British Gas is our largest customer and we already deliver a wide variety of services to British Gas Business. This contract will make us a major meter operations service provider in the UK market at a key time.”
Kanat Emiroglu, Managing Director of British Gas Business, commented: “G4S Utility Services have delivered excellent service since they commenced delivering Smart electricity meter installations earlier this year. The awarding of this contract demonstrates the strength of our partnership with them.”
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G4S Secure Solutions
G4S Secure Solutions is the largest security solutions company in the UK and Ireland with a turnover of more than £1 billion and 32,000 employees. More than 6,000 customers, including 59 FTSE 100 companies and the majority of UK Government departments, depend on G4S to provide them with a safe and secure way to deliver their services. For more information please visit www.g4s.com/uk.
G4S Utility Services
G4S Utility Services was founded in 1996 and makes over 50 million visits to properties per year throughout the UK on behalf of major utility companies, including British Gas, E.ON and EDF Energy. It also has a national workforce of multi skilled meter workers who can install electricity and gas meters and carry out subsequent maintenance with associated accredited system capability (NHHDC, DA, MOP & MAM) and with the ability to provide a full end to end smart solution including half hourly data retrieval and energy management information.
British Gas Business
British Gas Business, part of the Centrica Group of companies, are Britain's leading supplier of energy and energy services to the public and private sector, from small and medium-sized enterprises through to large multi-site users. They serve over 1m supply points and offer a range of energy products.