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
- Natural Resources Wales · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Cambrian Environmental Technologies Ltd SME
- Value
- £168,267.15
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Architecture & engineering · Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis (CPV 71241000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 006965-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date4 Mar 2024
- Published5 Mar 2024Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
Abandoned metal mines cause multiple failures of WFD standards in Wales, with c.1,300 mines impacting over 700 km of rivers. The Failing Waterbodies Report (Coal Authority, 2020) commissioned by NRW identified that remedial works at the 129 highest priority sites would be circa 278 million GBP. The Metal Mine Programme is therefore committed to identifying new treatment technologies that could reduce on-going operation and maintenance costs. Typical categorisation of active or passive treatment systems does not account for recent technological advancement. Passive systems typically require maintenance/refurbishment during their whole life (40 years) to ensure that performance remains effective, enabling metal removal. Fully active systems, such as High Density Sludge (HDS), often have high CAPEX and OPEX costs, and a large constituent of OPEX are energy and reagent costs as well as sludge disposal. Spent media in passive systems and sludge possess high metal content and current advice…
About the supplier
Cambrian Environmental Technologies Ltd: every public contract they have won.