AwardedFind a Tender · award

Framework Contract for marine phytoplankton sample analysis.

Buyer: ENVIRONMENT AGENCY (Defra Network eTendering Portal) →

BuyerENVIRONMENT AGENCY (Defra Network eTendering Portal)

StatusAwarded

DeadlineNot published

ValueValue not published

Published1 Nov 2023

What is being bought

Environment Agency Contract for the laboratory analysis (identification and enumeration) of marine phytoplankton samples collected by the Environment Agency (EA) and Natural Resources Wales

Delivery location

Lot details

Lot 1

Environment Agency Award of Contract for marine phytoplankton sample analysis

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

What is included

Item	Category	Quantity
1	Data analysis services	Not published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 72. The category anchor is Data analysis services (72316000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison set	Procedures	Reported bids per procedure	Named award suppliers	Price evidence
Market: CPV division 72	10,539	2 median · 15.4 average (4,161 of 10,539 with a bid count)	2 average (5,053 of 10,539 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Same buyer	7	Not published	1 average (1 of 7 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Delivery region: UK	3,325	2 median · 33.9 average (1,171 of 3,325 with a bid count)	2.8 average (1,501 of 3,325 with named award suppliers)	Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published

Dynamic purchasing systemNot published

Competitive procurementNot published

Recurring requirementNot published

Procurement method rationaleNot published

Rationale classificationsNot published

Special regimeNot published

Covered byGPA

Submission policyNot published

Selection criteriaNot published

Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published

No-engagement rationaleNot published

Planning documents0

Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

032337-2023-1

Statusactive

SupplierCefas

Contracts

032337-2023-1

Statusactive

Value£750,000

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCID	ocds-h6vhtk-03b339
Latest release ID	032337-2023
Latest release timestamp	Wed Nov 01 2023 15:13:19 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Source	find-a-tender
Official notice URL	Not published
Tender status	complete
Procurement method	open
Procurement method details	Open procedure
Main procurement category	services
Above threshold	Not published
Legal basis	32014L0024
Tender period: start	Not published
Tender period: end	Not published
Expression of interest deadline	Not published
Enquiry deadline	Not published
Award period: start	Not published
Award period: end	Not published
Submission method details	Not published
Submission languages	Not published
Electronic catalogue policy	Not published
Total tender value	Not published
Tender lots in source	1
Tender items in source	1
Tender documents in source	0
Awards in latest release	1
Contracts in latest release	1
Parties in latest release	3

Notice history

Date	Event	Reference
1 Nov 2023	award, contract	032337-2023
1 Nov 2023	award, contract	032314-2023
15 Mar 2023	tender	007608-2023

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON

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Complete JSON history (3 releases)

1 Nov 2023 · 032337-2023 · award, contract

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15 Mar 2023 · 007608-2023 · tender

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Framework Contract for marine phytoplankton sample analysis.

What is being bought

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Categories

Lot details

Lot 1

What is included

Comparable-procurement analytics

Price-outcome signal

Procurement strategy & market signals

Planning & early market engagement

Related procurements

Awards

032337-2023-1

Contracts

032337-2023-1

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