Water Testing Services for Water Plants and Reverse Osmosis Units

The Trust has six (6) water plants and six (6) portable reverse osmosis units which are a mix of Veolia Water, Fresenius and B Braun / Vantive units.

The Trust requires the following water sample testing for each of the units described above:

- Micro biological testing for Total Bacterial Count/Total Viable Count, endotoxins, fungal/mould and yeast. Micro biological testing is to be undertaken monthly for each unit (144 samples tested per annum); and

- Chemistry sample testing which is to be undertaken quarterly for each unit (48 samples tested per annum). The Chemistry sample testing is to cover:

• Chlorine, total;

• Nitrate as N;

• Sulphate as SO4;

• Fluoride;

• Silver, total;

• Aluminium, total;

• Arsenic, total;

• Beryllium, total;

• Cadmium, total;

• Chromium; total

• Copper; total

• Potassium; total

• Magnesium; total

• Sodium; total

• Lead; total

• Thallium; total

• Zinc; total

• Calcium; total

• Mercury, total;

• Chloramine; and

• Renal Association Tables tolerance results.

The Trust will collect the water samples and send them to the organisation for testing. Subsequently the Trust will require the full results per unit of the tests carried out within one to two weeks following receipt of the water samples by the organisation.

The organisation must have a lab with UKAS accreditation for microbiology and chemistry to ISO/IEC 17025.

Interested organisations should contact Christopher Dickenson (Christopher.dickenson@nhs.net) introducing your organisation and your experience in carrying out the above activities for other NHS and or private health organisations in the UK.