Official UK procurement notice
Air Quality Monitoring Stations - Local Site Operator Services 2026
Authority: Kingston upon Thames Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe contract is for the provision of local site operator services to the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames air quality monitoring sites (KT4, KT5 and KT6) and the London Borough of Sutton air quality monitoring sites (ST4, ST5, ST6, ST8). The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and the London Borough of Sutton Councils have merged services to create a Shared Environment Service. The provision of local site operator services will, therefore, be required to cover the automated air quality monitoring sites across both boroughs. In order to review and assess air quality as part of the duties under London Local Air Quality Management, a number of air quality monitoring stations are operated throughout both boroughs. There is a requirement for attending the sites routinely once per fortnight for the purpose of carrying out general Quality Assurance / Quality Control duties (with additional ad hoc visits as required). The contract will need to represent value for money for the Council while offering a high quality service to both the client and the data management provider. The operation of an air quality monitoring network is a measure that is included in both of the boroughs’ Air Quality Action Plans. The collection of reliable data helps to inform the effectiveness of the other measures that are being implemented to improve air quality across the boroughs and the data is included within the statutorily required Annual Status Report
CPV: Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£90,000
- Condition of participation
The Council wishes to determine whether the wage rates to be paid to those employees of the winning bidder who will be engaged in the provision of the services and which have been allowed for within the winning bid, will meet or exceed the current published Living Wage rates. When submitting bids, Tenderers must take this into consideration and include within their bid submissions the following information:
Details of actual wage rates and an indication of whether these meet or exceed current rates for Living Wage.
Tenderers must note that it is the intention of the Council not to contract any supplier who does not comply with the Living Wage. The evaluation of tenders, so far as it is affected by wage rates, will be confined to the actual wage rates provided for in the tender.
If the bid information discloses that the bid DOES NOT allow for the Tenderer’s employees to be paid wage rates which meet or exceed the current published Living Wage rates, the bid will be disqualified.
- Quality Questions
Please respond to the online Quality Method Statement questions for the contract using the response fields in this template document and upload this as an attachment in response to each online method statement question as required
If you have additional attachments or documents with your response please state this as part of your response, this will need to be in line with the specified word limit.
The Authority will exclude organisations that fail to meet the minimum score required from consideration of an award for this tender.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published award criteria (2)
- Price: Total contract value for the whole of the contract term
- Quality : Completion of the 5 method statements
- Condition of participation
The Council wishes to determine whether the wage rates to be paid to those employees of the winning bidder who will be engaged in the provision of the services and which have been allowed for within the winning bid, will meet or exceed the current published Living Wage rates. When submitting bids, Tenderers must take this into consideration and include within their bid submissions the following information:
Details of actual wage rates and an indication of whether these meet or exceed current rates for Living Wage.
Tenderers must note that it is the intention of the Council not to contract any supplier who does not comply with the Living Wage. The evaluation of tenders, so far as it is affected by wage rates, will be confined to the actual wage rates provided for in the tender.
If the bid information discloses that the bid DOES NOT allow for the Tenderer’s employees to be paid wage rates which meet or exceed the current published Living Wage rates, the bid will be disqualified.
- Quality Questions
Please respond to the online Quality Method Statement questions for the contract using the response fields in this template document and upload this as an attachment in response to each online method statement question as required
If you have additional attachments or documents with your response please state this as part of your response, this will need to be in line with the specified word limit.
The Authority will exclude organisations that fail to meet the minimum score req…
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 16 Apr 2026, 12:25 BST
- Last source update
- 16 Apr 2026, 12:25 BST
- Authority reference
DN812955- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-034645- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068415Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 15 May 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 15 May 2026, 12:00 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
16 Apr 2026 → 1 Jul 2026 · 4 dates- Tender notice published189 days ago16 Apr 2026, 12:25 BST
- Clarification questions by160 days ago15 May 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadline160 days ago15 May 2026, 12:00 BST
- Contract starts113 days ago1 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published16 Apr 2026, 12:25 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender