G4S wins East Ayrshire Council Smart metering contract
26 October 2010
G4S Utility Services, one of the UK’s largest national providers of metering and field services, has been awarded a contract to deliver Smart metering services to East Ayrshire Council
The award resulted from a competitive tender issued through the Official Journal of the European Union.
The contract, covering the installation of approximately 700 Smart electricity meters and 200 gas data loggers, will employ existing G4S Utility Services staff and commenced in August.
Councillor Douglas Reid, Leader of East Ayrshire Council, commented: “G4S Utility Services demonstrated an understanding of our needs and we are confident that they can meet our requirements with regards to quality and time. We look forward to reducing our energy consumption and saving money as a result of G4S providing detailed consumption data to act upon.”
Kim Challis, Managing Director of G4S Utility Services, commented: ”East Ayrshire Council have provided us with our first Smart metering contract for local government. We operate across the UK and are pleased to work on a such a large opportunity directly with a consumer in Scotland where we have a rich history in providing metering services for all of the major energy retailers.”
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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 system capability and with the ability to provide a full end to end smart solution including half hourly data retrieval and energy management information.
East Ayrshire Council
With 32 elected members and approximately 6,000 employees serving more than 120,000 residents, East Ayrshire Council has earned a reputation for providing services effectively and at a consistently high level.
Every department aims to deliver a quality service and all activities are carried out with the Council's core values of quality, equality, access and partnership in mind.