Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Defra Network eTendering Portal · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Value
- £345,504.64
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Research & development · Research and development services and related consultancy services (CPV 73000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 000452-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date27 Dec 2023
- Published8 Jan 2024Published 12 days after the contract date
Description
The desired outcome of this contract is to contribute to the development of the H4 indicator on ‘Exposure and adverse effects of chemicals on wildlife in the environment’.<br/><br/>H4 is one of a suite of indicators in the 25-Year Environment Plan (25-YEP) Outcome Indicator Framework. The indicator contributes to measuring whether we are moving towards the goal of ‘managing exposure to chemicals’ within the 25-YEP. Available updates to indicators under the framework are reported annually on gov.uk alongside reports outlining environmental improvements made through the 25-YEP. The H4 indicator is currently an interim version based on chemical concentrations found in water and in different organisms including apex predator mammals and birds. Birds included in the published 2021 supporting report for the interim H4 indicator are red kites and buzzards.
About the supplier
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Ukceh: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 11314957).