Published date: 28 January 2020

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


Closing: 7 August 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£71,020.58

Procurement reference

ONR409

Published date

28 January 2020

Closing date

7 August 2019

Contract start date

2 January 2020

Contract end date

31 July 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

ONR is seeking to engage one of the Technical Support Contractors (TSC) appointed on Lot 2 of its Technical Support Framework. The TSC is required to compare the UK design basis criterion for naturally occurring external hazards with other practices (both in terms of adopting a probabilistic approach rather than deterministic, and in terms of the value of the probabilistic criterion itself - 10-4 per year). For example for seismic hazard analysis, US guide RG1.208 advocates using a performance based approach and selecting an appropriate fraction between the 10-4 and 10-5 mean hazard curves, rather than a single conservatively estimated curve. Other countries, particularly where earthquakes are more frequent or severe than in the UK, may elect to design to a given deterministic event. Even though the UK may be relatively seismically inactive, the current design basis criterion may lead to relatively stringent design conditions, ironically, partly driven by the uncertainty resulting from scarcity of severe earthquake data and the requirement to ensure a conservative evaluation.

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Award information

Awarded date

1 November 2019

Contract start date

2 January 2020

Contract end date

31 July 2020

Total value of contract

£71,020.58

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd

Address

5th Floor
Malt Building
Wilderspool Business Park
Greenalls Avenue
Warrington
WA4 6HL

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Redgrave Court
Merton Road
BOOTLE
L207HS
England

Email

Tenders@hse.gov.uk