Official UK procurement notice
Environment Agency Contract for National Tide Gauge Maintenance
Authority: ENVIRONMENT AGENCY (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Environment Agency owns and maintains 42 ‘Class A’ strategic tide gauges, distributed around the UK coastline on behalf of the UK Coastal Flood Forecasting partnership. These are commonly referred to as the UKCFF tide gauges or UK National Tide Gauge Network (NTGN).
- Recurrence: tbc
CPV: Environmental services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The network currently consists of 21 sites in England, 10 in Scotland, 7 in Wales, 2…Renewal
The network currently consists of 21 sites in England, 10 in Scotland, 7 in Wales, 2 in Northern Ireland, 1 in Jersey and 1 in the Isle of Man. The Environment Agency is responsible for and manages all gauges in the network.
Use of the data is not restricted to the operating authority boundary in which a gauge is located, for example both the Environment Agency (England) and Natural Resources Wales (Wales) use the Liverpool tide gauge data in delivering their forecasting services.
These tide gauges are of critical importance in providing flood forecasting, warning, modelling, mapping and operational activities. The primary use of the network is to support the operational flood forecasting activities of the UK Flood Forecasting Authorities. The gauges are used to:
- Provide a strategic overview of real time coastal conditions around the UK.
- Track the progress of coastal surge around the UK waters.
- Develop and calibrate the coastal surge model hosted by the Met Office.
- Produce high quality tide tables for key strategic locations in the UK for flood forecasting.
- Provide high quality archive data sets for use in coastal flood modelling and mapping applications and modelling of extreme sea levels.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · tbc
- First published
- 7 May 2021, 22:55 BST
- Last source update
- 7 May 2021, 22:55 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 7 Jun 2021 – …
- Authority reference
Project_32994- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-010059- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02aebcFind a Tender
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 7 Jun 2021
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 7 Jun 2021, 12:00 BST
Timeline
7 May 2021 → 7 Jun 2021 · 3 dates- Notice published7 May 2021, 22:55 BST
- Submission deadline7 Jun 2021
- Bids opened7 Jun 2021, 12:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Courts of England and WalesReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.