Published date: 7 October 2021

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


Closing: 9 September 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Environmental services - 90700000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£80,000

Procurement reference

tender_282635/1003533

Published date

7 October 2021

Closing date

9 September 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

27 September 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Brominated flame-retardants (BFRs) are often present in plastics from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). These include persistent organic pollutants (POPs) like polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE's). These are comprised of multiple components such as decabrominated diphenyl ether (decaBDE) (CAS 1163-19-5).

Plastics, containing brominated flame retardants, are separated from other plastics at a small number (5-10) of waste treatment facilities to generate high bromine fractions and low bromine fractions.

The key objectives of this project are to sample and analyse the high and low bromine plastic fractions at each waste treatment facility to:
- Provide a consistent picture of their current separation performance to inform the UK position in negotiations on revised low POP content limits for POP PBDE's.
- Produce an estimate of the quantity of brominated POP PBDE's in each fraction from each site annually
- Present/Develop a consistent sampling and analytical methodology for the sector to use for future process monitoring

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Persistent Organic Pollutants in Separated WEEE Plastics

  • Opportunity
  • Published 10 August 2021

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Award information

Awarded date

24 September 2021

Contract start date

27 September 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2022

Total value of contract

£88,151

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Water Research Centre Limited

Address

Spring Lodge, 172 Chester Road, Helsby Cheshire WA6 0AR

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Rachel Wickerson

Address

17 Nobel House
London
SW1P 3JR
England

Telephone

07917214873

Email

rachel.wickerson@environment-agency.gov.uk