Decision
The Decision of the Hearings Commissioner on the review of Groundwater consents in the Rakaia Selwyn Groundwater Allocation Zone is issued.
Read the Decision.

Background - the ‘request for proposal’

Environment Canterbury was invited by Rakaia-Selwyn Cluster Groups to facilitate the water metering project. The project's brief was to investigate and identify the most appropriate and cost-effective water metering systems. This process was by way of a ‘request for proposal’ (RFP) to seek proposals for preferred service providers for the supply and/or installation of a range of different water metering services to consent holders in the Rakaia-Selwyn groundwater zone. Environment Canterbury has extended the water metering project to the Canterbury region.

The base principles of the project were:

1. Metering and associated technology has to fit for purpose
2. Cost effective
3. Future proofing.

With consideration to these principles the Rakaia-Selwyn Cluster Groups' Water Metering RFP’s objective is to:

1. Enable resource consent holders to access the most cost effective technology for improving efficiency of on-farm water application; and
2. Reduce on-going compliance costs.

53 respondents submitted proposals. The table (see PDF in Related Documents) lists the successful organisations and the service or technology for which they were approved. 
There are 3 approval categories –

• Preferred service provider,
• Authorised service provider, and
• Authorised  
  • water meter supplier 
  • datalogger/telemetry supplier 
  • water meter installer 
  • data service provider 
  • compliance monitoring and reporting provider.

Organisations are ‘authorised’ to undertake one or more of these services. The difference between the ‘preferred’ and ‘authorised’ service provider is that the latter, at time of receipt of the proposal did not show the capability to be a ‘compliance monitoring and reporting provider” although they were approved as a ‘data service provider’. These parties are currently developing the necessary processes to become in the future such a provider and may now have that capability.

The request for proposal process for water metering has now closed. The lists of preferred and authorised providers have been notified and are listed on our Water Use Telemetry Project page.
 
For more information:
Contact John Young ph 027 436 2345

Full lists of successful organisations including contact details, a service outline and promotional flyers...

can be found on our Water Use Telemetry Project page.