Published date: 22 April 2020

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


Closing: 13 August 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Environmental services - 90700000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£29,666

Procurement reference

tender_209502/851674

Published date

22 April 2020

Closing date

13 August 2019

Contract start date

2 September 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Competitive quotation (below threshold)

The buyer selects a group of potential suppliers to invite to tender.

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

The Long-term Monitoring Network (LTMN) comprises 37 sites, mainly on National Nature Reserves, in England, where a wide range of environmental parameters are being monitored with the aim of detecting long-term changes in biodiversity and ecosystem function associated with climate change, pollution and land management. A suite of soil parameters are included in this monitoring to enable interpretation of above and below-ground environmental changes and to indicate long-term changes in soil characteristics, functions and biodiversity.

This contract requires no fieldwork, and relates to sample processing, analysis and reporting of results only. Currently all sites where soils monitoring is required will have their fieldwork and sampling carried out by Natural England staff and volunteers.

We require processing, analysis and reporting for soils samples collected during two years of sampling: 2018 and 2019. This is because in 2018 samples were collected, but not analysed, and have been stored frozen at -20o. These samples can be made available shortly after the contract is awarded, to enable early processing and analysis. For 2019 samples, the fieldwork and sampling will be completed in September/October and the samples will be made available for processing from late September to mid October 2019.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Long Term Monitoring Network - Soils Analysis 2019

  • Opportunity
  • Published 4 July 2019

Attachments

Additional text

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Award information

Awarded date

22 August 2019

Contract start date

2 September 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2020

Total value of contract

£29,666

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

James Hutton Institute

Address

Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, AB15 8QH, UNITED KINGDOM

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Natural England
Peterborough
PE1 1NG
England

Telephone

00

Email

supplier.enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk