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
- Environment Agency · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Ricardo Aea Ltd
- Value
- £2,550,513.65
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Waste, cleaning & environmental · Air quality management (CPV 90731100)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 015510-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date25 Mar 2025
- Published16 Apr 2025Published 22 days after the contract date
Description
The Monitoring contracts team within Survey, National Monitoring has been managing the UK Hydrocarbons Network contract on behalf of DEFRA since April 2016. This procurement is to replace the current contract which has been running for 6 years (1st September 2018 until 31st August 2023) with an additional 1-year extension until August 24, followed by an STA for 6 months ending 31/03/2025.<br/>The networks consist of interdependent elements, split between an automatic and a non-automatic network.<br/>The Hydrocarbon Network Operator is responsible for the management of the network of air pollution monitoring sites throughout the UK for the measurement and assessment of Benzene and volatile organic compounds at automatic sites. The operator will be responsible for upkeep, collection, analysis QA/QC and transfer of data to contractors who have responsibility for wider dissemination of the data.<br/><br/>The retender cost is for 4-year period which is a two-year contract with the option o…
About the supplier
Ricardo Aea Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 08229264).