Published date: 16 August 2021

Last edited date: 13 May 2024

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 30 July 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Air quality management - 90731100

Location of contract

United Kingdom, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, British Oversea Territories, Europe, Rest of the World

Value of contract

£2,015,365.06

Procurement reference

tender_251195/988960

Published date

16 August 2021

Closing date

30 July 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 August 2021

Contract end date

31 July 2026

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Environment Agency ('The Authority') on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Devolved Administrations is seeking to procure a service provider to manage and operate the UK Eutrophication and Acidification Network, a network of air quality monitoring across the UK.

The UKEAP network consists of four rural air pollution monitoring networks and operation of two UK European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) Supersites. The four networks are the;

- Precipitation Network (Precip-Net) measuring rain composition across the UK;
- National Ammonia Monitoring Network (NAMN), measuring ammonia concentrations across the UK;
- Acid Gas and Aerosol Network (AGANet), measuring acid gas concentrations and inorganic aerosol (~PM4) composition; and
- NO2 - Net network, measuring indicative NO2 concentrations.

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Award information

Awarded date

1 August 2021

Contract start date

1 August 2021

Contract end date

31 July 2026

Total value of contract

£2,015,365.06

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Ricardo Energy and Environment

Address

Gemini Building, Harwell, Didcot, OX11 0QR

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Michelle Hingston

Address

17 Nobel House
London
SW1P 3JR
England

Telephone

07584 273719

Email

michelle.hingston@environment-agency.gov.uk