Published date: 15 July 2021

Closed future opportunity - This means that a potential contract has passed its approach to market date. A buyer can choose to consider any supplier interest or convert this notice into an opportunity ready for live procurement.


Approach to market date: 22 July 2021

Contract summary

Industry

  • Design-modelling services - 72242000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

tender_279967/980466

Published date

15 July 2021

Approach to market date

22 July 2021

Contract start date

27 September 2021

Contract end date

19 December 2022

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

This future opportunity notice is published in order to highlight this project (Phase 1) to the market and allow potential bidders time to allocate resources for tendering purposes. The Agency would also like to highlight future opportunities which are related to this project. This notice does not commit the Agency to proceeding beyond this point and the Agency reserves the right to amend and adapt the requirements outlined below.

The general objective of this project, which is currently in Phase 1 (this current financial year) is to further update the existing groundwater model that will significantly improve the Environment Agency's ability to make abstraction licensing decisions on a sound scientific basis and, in doing so, protect and/or enhance sensitive groundwater-dependent chalk streams and ecosystems supported by the Chalk aquifer. The model represents a number of Chalk streams that are situated in the Wye, Colne and Lee catchments. These catchments have been previously assessed to suffer from large scale over abstraction through the Catchment Abstraction Management Strategy (CAMS) methodology. This area has a high level of public interest and challenge to existing abstraction management (and management tools) particularly in relation to the protection of Chalk Streams. Other pressures include water quality issues such as Bromate contamination and large scale infrastructure projects such as High Speed Rail 2.

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Specialist Skills
Tenders will be assessed to ensure the chosen Supplier has all the appropriate skills and expertise to successfully execute the project. It is critical that bidders are competent in developing regional-scale numerical groundwater modelling using any of these codes (SWAcMOD, 4R, 4R6, MODFLOW-96 and MODFLOW6). Proven experience in the Chalk aquifer in England and familiarity with relevant EA guidance for water resources management is essential.

About the buyer

Contact name

Léonie Cormac

Address

17 Nobel House
London
SW1P 3JR
England

Email

leonie.cormac@defra.gov.uk