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
- Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- We Care 4 Air SME
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Analysers (CPV 38434000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 008824-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date14 Mar 2024
- Published19 Mar 2024Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
The Environmental Hazards & Emergency Department (EHE) has no current mobile capability to monitor for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the urban environment. The capability of being able to monitor for the benzene toluene ethyl-benzene and xylene (BTEX) suite of VOCs using gas chromatography which provides a surrogate marker from petroleum-based sources. The airToxic benzene toluene ethyl-benzene and xylene (BTEX) single column GC analyser utilises a nitrogen carrier gas (via a nitrogen generator) to enable analysis of up to 8 VOC compounds including monitoring emissions to air, land and water Monitoring Certification Scheme (MCERTs) determination of BTEX. The airmoChromaVOC is a gas chromatograph – photo-ionisation detector (CG-PID) instrument designed for analysis of “light” hydrocarbons. It is used for the measurement of volatile hydrocarbons in the range of C2 to C6 i.e. from ethane through 1,3-Butadiene up to Benzene (and other C6 compounds).
About the supplier
We Care 4 Air: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 09235089).