TXT In plain English
Company description
NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 2 April 2005; registered for 21 years; registered office reported in BELFAST, CO ANTRIM, NORTHERN IRELAND. Its primary declared activity is 36000 · Water collection, treatment and supply, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 35 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED
- Company number
- NI054463
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 1 total · 1 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
1 April 2026Next statement due
15 April 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 25 May 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No retention clauses reported
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 April 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £391,071,021
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £4,629,605
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £2,105,911
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £8,226,200
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 5.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 1.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with client
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with payments
- Not supplied
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms are 30 days from receipt of invoice but where possible we seek to pay suppliers within 10 working days.
- Dispute resolution process
Disputes & all types of invoice queries are handled by a dedicated centralised Accounts Payables Team, which can be contacted at notifications@niwater.com
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 13.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 15.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
04 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Northern Ireland Water Limited
Registration Z9774154
- Registered from
- 19 April 2007
- Current end date
- 18 April 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Department For Infrastructure
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Has significant influence or control (as a firm)
- Country registered
- N.A.
- Legal authority
- Northern Irish
- Legal form
- Devolved Northern Ireland Government Department Governed By Public Law.
- Place registered
- N.A.
- Registration number
- N.A.
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
06 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
07 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
08 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
T148 – Risk Management Advisory Services
Northern Ireland Water Limited · updated 18 September 2026
- Tender value
- £950,000
- Awards
- 1
C1007 - Fleet Management Services
NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED · updated 17 September 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
NI Water - Laboratory Analysis Resilience Services
NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED · updated 17 September 2026
- Tender value
- £10
- Awards
- 0
Integrated Partnerships Framework
NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED · updated 16 September 2026
- Tender value
- £10,500,000,000
- Awards
- 0
F006 –Supply, Maintenance and Repair of Sludge Management Equipment
NI Water · updated 27 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
NI Water - Fleet Maintenance and Management Services
NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED · updated 26 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
T162 - Supply, Maintenance and Support Services of Blackline Safety Gas Detection Monitors and Draeger Breathing Apparatus
Northern Ireland Water Limited · updated 26 August 2026
- Tender value
- £2,000,000
- Awards
- 0
T109- Supply and Delivery of Liquid Oxygen, Storage Vessels and associated Service and Maintenance
NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED · updated 12 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 2
T140 - Mechanical Installation, Repair and Maintenance
Northern Ireland Water Limited · updated 11 August 2026
- Tender value
- £66,500,000
- Awards
- 2
T137 - Maintenance of Electronic Site Security System
NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED · updated 5 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Lifting Equipment and Pressure Systems (LEAPS) Compliance Management System
Northern Ireland Water Limited · updated 30 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
T150 - Essential Training for Water Industry Workers
Northern Ireland Water Ltd · updated 29 July 2026
- Tender value
- £1,400,000
- Awards
- 0
T172 - Supply, Maintenance, Modifications and Hire of Generators
NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED · updated 24 July 2026
- Tender value
- £6,000,000
- Awards
- 0
T187 - Renewable Electricity Export
Northern Ireland Water · updated 22 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
T189 - Corporate Healthcare
NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED · updated 21 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
Provision of maintenance, spare parts, bare shaft/service exchange units, rental equipment and OEM Support for Aerzen Compressors and Blowers
NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED · updated 3 July 2026
- Tender value
- £1,137,456
- Awards
- 1
T141 - Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation, Installation, Repair and Maintenance
Northern Ireland Water Limited · updated 26 June 2026
- Tender value
- £54,000,000
- Awards
- 0
Supply of Metered Electricity
NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED · updated 17 June 2026
- Tender value
- £534,000,000
- Awards
- 5
T142 - Internal Audit Resource
NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED · updated 9 June 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
F004 - Framework for the Supply, Maintenance and Repair of Screening & Conditioning Equipment
NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED · updated 29 May 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 8
Showing the first 20 of 35 linked procurement processes.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
10 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Sewerage
12 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
35 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
13 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.