Laboratory Tender - Analytical Services

Agricultural land must be sampled to assess the suitability of the land for the application of Biosolids (treated sewage sludge) or clarification sludge (from water treatment). Sampling for Biosolids applications is required before the initial application and then at intervals of 5, 10 & 20 years. The soil sampling depth and the analysis required will differ between these timeframes.

Sampling for clarification is before individual applications.

We currently take and analyse in the region of 7,000 soil samples per annum with each sample comprising 25 sub-samples taken from an area of up to 5 hectares. Sampling and Analysis needs to comply with the Code of Practice for Agricultural use of Sewage Sludge & Biosolids Assurance Scheme (BAS).

BAS requires soil samples to be collected by competent personnel, recording of the location of each soil sample (including the location of the sub samples), chain of custody, suitable transport and storage and for the analysis to be undertaken by a BAS approved laboratory.

Suppliers will provide an end-to-end service from sample request to supply of analysis results both electronically uploaded to Severn Trent's system (currently QUIS) plus supplier headed reports where required for submission to the Environment Agency

The service comprises:

Soil sampling

Analysis using BAS approved laboratory services

The Labs Analytical Services cover all regulatory requirements for water sampling, testing and analysis for ST and HD. The contract is fundamental to ST/HD as a business to enable wastewater testing, monitoring and retrieving data on our Wastewater & Soils samples.  Lot 2 consists of water testing, sampling and analysis within the following: OSM & UWW, Landfill Monitoring, Trade Effluent & Formal Sampling, Tankered Waste, Investigatory Sample Analysis WWR & Bioresource, Pipeline Assessments, Settled Sewage & Sludge, Capital Schemes.

Severn Trent requires the provision of a planned sampling service, provision and maintenance of the auto samplers and full analysis to fully comply with the Environment Agency's requirements for Operator Self-Monitoring (OSM) and Urban Waste Treatment (UWW) Regulations., along with HACCP & BAS on Sludge.

The Supplier will be responsible for ensuring that all necessary sampling activities are performed to an agreed programme, samples are submitted to the laboratory for analysis and results are communicated in full compliance with stipulated timescales. The Supplier will be responsible to Severn Trent for meeting the requirements and technical specification in respect of the Goods, Services and Works being provided.

na. Additional information: no lot 4 available