Published date: 7 October 2022

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: 28 October 2022, 4pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Evaluation consultancy services - 79419000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£25,000

Procurement reference

P&P3

Published date

7 October 2022

Closing date

28 October 2022

Closing time

4pm

Contract start date

4 November 2022

Contract end date

6 March 2023

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?

No

Description

"Agriculture produces 88% of the UK's ammonia emissions, which are predominantly released during: the storage and spreading of manures and slurries, and; from the application of inorganic fertilisers. Ammonia is also emitted from the housing of animals. Ammonia damages sensitive natural habitats and contributes to particulate pollution in urban areas.
The four UK environment agencies use standard pig and poultry ammonia emission factors for permitting assessments and to inform annual emissions reporting by operators. The standard emission factors used are based on a combination of the UK Ammonia Inventory data, emission mitigation reductions reported in the Intensive Rearing of Poultry or Pigs best Available Techniques (BAT) reference document, operator specific monitoring and verified reductions (usually from the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany) provided by technology companies.
The UK environment agencies have identified the need to update our respective published emission factors to reflect more recent evidence and modern livestock management practices, genetics and nutrition. We aim to better align the emission factors used across the UK and standardise how emission factors are adjusted to account for mitigation techniques to improve consistency across UK permitting and emissions reporting.
The UK environment agencies have collectively reviewed the emissions factors from latest Inventory of Ammonia emissions from UK Agriculture. Initially reviewing the emission factor tables provided by the Inventory Team and back calculating to understand how they have been derived, we have identified several areas where additional expert input is needed to better understand the
derivation of certain figures, the descriptions of housing systems referred to and how the inventory emission factors can be applied to farm operations on typical permitted farms across the UK. The aim of this project is to provide answers to these questions and a suite of recommended ammonia emission factors and abatement factors for a range of standard pig and poultry housing systems and management techniques."

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"You are invited to quote for the above in accordance with the attached documents.
Instructions on what information we require you to provide is in Section 4 of the Request for Quotation document.

Your response should be returned to the following email address by 16:00 on 28 October 2022:
thomas.judd@environment-agency.gov.uk

Many thanks for your interest in this project."

About the buyer

Contact name

Alice Waterson

Address

Environment Agency, Chippenham Depot,
Bath Road Industrial Estate,
Chippenham
SN14 0AB
England

Email

alice.waterson@environment-agency.gov.uk