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UK Hydrocarbons Monitoring Network 2025-2027

Air quality management
UK
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: ENVIRONMENT AGENCY: "UK Hydrocarbons Monitoring Network 2025-2027". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityENVIRONMENT AGENCYScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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Published history for ENVIRONMENT AGENCY. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
1.3Bids / Report
80% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
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Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
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Coverage: 10 active published awards; 10 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Price reduction compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityENVIRONMENT AGENCY
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published16 Apr 2025, 12:08 BST
Last source update16 Apr 2025, 12:08 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationAir quality management
Delivery area
UK
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-044d01
What is being bought
The networks consist of interdependent elements, split between an automatic and a non-automatic network.<br/>The Hydrocarbon Network Operator is responsible for the management of the network of air pollution monitoring sites throughout the UK for the measurement and assessment of Benzene and volatile organic compounds at automatic sites. The operator will be responsible for upkeep, collection, analysis QA/QC and transfer of data to contractors who have responsibility for wider dissemination of the data.<br/>The objective is to continue delivery and encompass new monitoring using automatic analysers that can measure additional hydrocarbons to align with changes to the pollution climate of the UK.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    16 Apr 2025, 12:08 BST
  2. Buyer information updated
    16 Apr 2025, 12:08 BST
  3. Status changed to complete
    5 Feb 2025, 13:45 GMT
  4. Official notice release published
    5 Feb 2025, 13:45 GMT
  5. Status changed to planned
    26 Mar 2024, 14:42 GMT
  6. Official notice release published
    26 Mar 2024, 14:42 GMT
  7. Buyer information updated
    26 Mar 2024, 14:42 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    The Monitoring contracts team within Survey, National Monitoring has been managing the UK Hydrocarbons Network contract on behalf of DEFRA since April 2016. This procurement is to replace the current contract which has been running for 6 years (1st September 2018 until 31st August 2023) with an additional 1-year extension until August 24, followed by an STA for 6 months ending 31/03/2025.<br/>The networks consist of interdependent elements, split between an automatic and a non-automatic network.<br/>The Hydrocarbon Network Operator is responsible for the management of the network of air pollution monitoring sites throughout the UK for the measurement and assessment of Benzene and volatile organic compounds at automatic sites. The operator will be responsible for upkeep, collection, analysis QA/QC and transfer of data to contractors who have responsibility for wider dissemination of the data.<br/><br/>The retender cost is for 4-year period which is a two-year contract with the option of extending for a further two years.<br/><br/>The objective is to continue delivery and encompass new monitoring using automatic analysers that can measure additional hydrocarbons to align with changes to the pollution climate of the UK.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    16 Apr 2025, 12:08 BST
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 25 Mar 2025, 00:00 GMT · £2,550,514
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Ricardo-AEA Ltd
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£2,550,514 · signed 25 Mar 2025, 00:00 GMT · active
Bid statistics
bids: 1 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

Contracting authority GB-FTS-139654
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  • ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
    buyer

    Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street, London, UK, SW1P 4DF
    procurement@defra.gov.uk
    +44 3459335577

  • Public Procurement Review Body
    mediationBody
    reviewBody
    reviewContactPoint

    N/A, N/A, N/A
    publicprocurementreview@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

  • Ricardo-AEA Ltd
    supplier

    08229264
    The Gemini Building, Harwell, Oxfordshire, Harwell, UK, OX11 0QR
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Planning and rationale
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Procedure rationaleThis is a genuine STA under Regulation 32 of PCR 2015 and complies with clause 9. <br/>Additional ground relevant to new works or services which repeat similar ones<br/>(9) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for new works and services consisting of the repetition of similar works or services entrusted to the economic operator to which the same contracting authority awarded an original contract, provided that such works or services are in conformity with a basic project for which the original contract was awarded following a procedure in accordance with regulation 26(1) and (2), 32(1) and (2).<br/>26.—(1) When awarding public contracts, contracting authorities shall apply procedures that conform to this Part.<br/>(2) Such contracts may be awarded only if a call for competition has been published in accordance with this Part F1..., except where regulation 32 permits contracting authorities to apply a negotiated procedure without prior publication.<br/>32.—(2) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:—<br/>(a)where no tenders, no suitable tenders, no requests to participate or no suitable requests to participate have been submitted in response to an open procedure or a restricted procedure, provided that the initial conditions of the contract are not substantially altered [F1and that—<br/>(b)where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons:— (ii)competition is absent for technical reasons, but only, in the case of paragraphs (ii) and (iii), where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement;