Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Mining Remediation Authority · Body governed by public law
- Suppliers
- Arcadis UK, Sand Separations Systems Ltd SME, X-Ray Mineral Services Ltd SME
- Value
- £680,326
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Sector
- Construction work · Water-treatment work (CPV 45232430)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date3 Feb 2025
- Published2 Jul 2025Published 149 days after the contract date
Description
In 2011, the Water and Abandoned Metal Mines (WAMM) Programme was set up between the Environment Agency, Defra and the Coal Authority to address pollution of rivers by abandoned metal mines. Currently, the Coal Authority operates four WAMM mine water treatment schemes, each using a different treatment technology, which are improving water quality in about 20 km of rivers. In January 2023, Parliament adopted a statutory metal mines target, under the Environment Act 2021, to halve the length of English rivers polluted by harmful metals from abandoned metal mines by 2038. The Government's Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP), published in January 2023, estimated that to achieve this long-term target would likely require around 40 new mine water treatment schemes and a similar number of diffuse interventions. The EIP set a non-statutory interim target to construct 8 mine water treatment schemes and 20 diffuse interventions by 31 January 2028. To help deliver the interim and long-term targ…
About the suppliers
Arcadis UK: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01093549).
Sand Separations Systems Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 10625418).
X-Ray Mineral Services Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06772368).