Official UK procurement notice
Compliance Reporting · UK public procurement notice
Authority: DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis contract delivers the UK’s statutory reporting against The Air Quality Standards Regulations (2010) and retained EU law. The UK is required to collect, manage, and report air quality data to demonstrate compliance with statutory limit values, target values, long term objectives and critical levels set for the protection of human health and ecosystems.
This contract involves the coordination of air quality evidence (including measurements from the national monitoring networks and modelled data from Defra’s model(s) (produced under The Modelling Ambient Air Quality (MAAQ) contract) into official dataflows for statutory reporting, accessible files for public consumption and into a formal annual compliance report.
- How the procedure runs: This procurement is being conducted as a Competitive Flexible Procedure in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023. Completion and submission of all documents will be conducted via the Authority’s eSourcing system. Following the evaluation stages 1-5 referenced in the Bidder Pack, the authority reserves the right to reissue the technical evaluation questions, pricing schedule, or any part thereof to the two highest scoring bidders, or any other bidder, for a Best and Final Offer (BAFO). Please note that all bidders will be invited to submit improved responses on the same items. Bidders will have 10 calendar days to review, revise and resubmit their bid via Atamis. There will be a period of 5 calendar days for clarification questions. The exact dates of these periods and deadlines for submission will be shared with the relevant bidders. ! IMPORTANT – This is an optional stage for the Authority to ensure that the Most Advantageous Tender is selected, that the requirement has been fully understood, and that bidders are provided a fair chance to compete where the Authority does not feel ready to award after Stage 5 evaluation. Bidders should submit their best possible tender and price in the first instance, as it is not guaranteed that this stage will be used.
CPV: Air quality management
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£0
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 sub-criteria (2)
- Technical: 60%
- Price: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Technical
- Price
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 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
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 27 May 2025, 10:20 BST
- Last source update
- 19 May 2026, 13:24 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 31 Mar 2026
- Authority reference
C32700- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-006199- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0526a7Find a Tender
- How it runs
This procurement is being conducted as a Competitive Flexible Procedure in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023. Completion and submission of all documents will be conducted via the Authority’s eSourcing system.
Following the evaluation stages 1-5 referenced in the Bidder Pack, the authority reserves the right to reissue the technical evaluation questions, pricing schedule, or any part thereof to the two highest scoring bidders, or any other bidder, for a Best and Final Offer (BAFO).
Please note that all bidders will be invited to submit improved responses on the same items. Bidders will have 10 calendar days to review, revise and resubmit their bid via Atamis. There will be a period of 5 calendar days for clarification questions. The exact dates of these periods and deadlines for submission will be shared with the relevant bidders.
! IMPORTANT – This is an optional stage for the Authority to ensure that the Most Advantageous Tender is selected, that the requirement has been fully understood, and that bidders are provided a fair chance to compete where the Authority does not feel ready to award after Stage 5 evaluation. Bidders should submit their best possible tender and price in the first instance, as it is not guaranteed that this stage will be used.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 20 Feb 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 13 Feb 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
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Submissions must be made via the Authority's eSourcing platform.
Timeline
27 May 2025 → 19 May 2026 · 10 dates- Planning notice published27 May 2025, 10:20 BST
- Market engagement20 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will be inviting proposals to provide the Management of ‘Air Quality’ Data and the Formal Reporting of Air Quality for the ‘Data Management and Compliance Reporting’ contract. This project will be split into two lots, the primary purpose of Lot 1 is to collect, process and store air quality monitoring data from the national monitoring networks, to aggregate this data and calculate statistics, and to make this data available to various parties. The purpose of Lot 2 is to deliver formal reporting against the Air Quality Standards Regulations (2010) and to produce accessible summaries and technical reports of compliance against UK limit values, target values and long-term objectives. This requires producing XML dataflows that adhere to a strict reporting schema. Data is also reported to the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme. A draft specification for this opportunity can be requested via email to [email protected] inbox by referencing this opportunity. Depending on interest received, Defra will hold an online Market Engagement Online Event on the week commencing 30th June 2025 to discuss any technical elements of this project. Please register your interest for this event no later than 20th June 2025. The Authority may contact you to confirm your interest and to discuss your capability to fulfil this requirement. In order to understand the markets appetite and ability to resource and bid for this work, we are requesting you respond to this notice to confirm if you are interested in bidding for this work and that you can meet the requirements outlined above. Please confirm your interest in bidding for this opportunity and/or attending the Market Engagement Online Event by emailing [email protected] no later than 3pm on 20th June 2025. It should also be noted that this notice invites individuals and organisations to express an interest in this exercise only. It is NOT a pre-qualification questionnaire, is NOT part of any pre-qualification or selection process, and is NOT a call for competition.
- Tender notice published274 days ago23 Jan 2026, 13:28 GMT
- Clarification questions by253 days ago13 Feb 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Submission deadline246 days ago20 Feb 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Award decision expected by206 days ago31 Mar 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts206 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
- Assessment summaries sent191 days ago16 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
- Standstill ends178 days ago28 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
- Latest notice published158 days ago19 May 2026, 13:24 BST
Notice history
10 events · 5 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 May 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 May 2025, 10:20 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 May 2025, 10:22 BSTUK2
- Tender notice published23 Jan 2026, 13:28 GMTUK4
- Status changed to active23 Jan 2026, 13:28 GMT
- Procurement method changed23 Jan 2026, 13:28 GMT
- Deadline published: 20 Feb 2026, 15:00 GMT23 Jan 2026, 13:28 GMT
- Contract award notice published17 Apr 2026, 08:53 BSTUK6
- Status changed to complete17 Apr 2026, 08:53 BST
- Contract signature expected30 Apr 2026, 23:59 BSTscheduled
- Contract details notice published19 May 2026, 13:24 BSTUK7
Published amendments (1)
To include email address for responses to be sent to [email protected]
Routine re-releases (5)
- 2025-05: 2 releases · 27 May 2025, 27 May 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air Quality Consultants LtdSME1 May 2026 – 30 Apr 2028 · up to 30 Apr 2029Extensions: 1 year optional extension (2+1) | £236,317same award published again · counted once | 13 Apr 2026standstill to 28 Apr 2026 | Standstill |
| Air Quality Consultants LtdSME | £236,317 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Compliance Reporting · Air Quality Consultants LtdSME
- Signed
- 12 May 2026
- Value
- £236,317
- Period
- 14 May 2026 – 31 Mar 2028 · up to 31 Mar 2029 with extensions
- Status
- active
- Extensions
- (2+1)
- Options
- 1 year optional extension
No agreed KPIs: Project KPIs have been set but will not be required to publish as under £5m.
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3final-stage tenders | 1 | 0 | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Air Quality Consultants LtdAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (5)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender