Published date: 28 July 2017

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 29 September 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Services related to air pollution - 90731000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£1,500,000

Procurement reference

tender_145903/601006

Published date

28 July 2017

Closing date

29 September 2017

Contract start date

1 December 2017

Contract end date

31 March 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The EA maintains equipment and arrangements to provide a rapidly deployable air quality monitoring and sampling capability for major air pollution incidents in support of the Air Quality Cell (An Air Quality Cell is a virtual team of technical experts convened to assess the public health and environmental risks posed by emissions from particularly large scale or long lasting incidents. The core members of an AQC are the EA, PHE and Met Office (MO).

This capability comprises:

• 4 response teams equipped with portable air quality monitoring and sampling equipment;
• 2 'van-based' mobile air quality monitoring laboratories (mobile labs) for high quality longer term monitoring.

This contract is intended to appoint a Contractor to provide this capability on behalf of the EA.

More information

Additional text

Documents can be found at https://defra.bravosolution.co.uk

About the buyer

Contact name

Robin Browne

Address

Manley House, Kestrel Way
Exeter
EX2 7LQ
England

Telephone

01392 352402

Email

robin.browne@environment-agency.gov.uk