ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

UK

Contact person: Defra Group Commercial

Telephone: +44 3459335577

E-mail: procurement@defra.gov.uk

NUTS: UK

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs

Address of the buyer profile: https://defra-family.force.com/s/Welcome

II.1.1) Title

Reference number: C28478

II.1.2) Main CPV code

90731100

II.1.3) Type of contract

Services

II.1.4) Short description

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.

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

II.1.7) Total value of the procurement

Value excluding VAT: 2 550 513.65  GBP

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition

Justification for selected award procedure:

No tenders or no suitable tenders/requests to participate in response to open procedure

Explanation

This 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;

IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes

IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number in the OJ S:

2025/S 000-003818

Ricardo-AEA Ltd

08229264

The Gemini Building, Harwell, Oxfordshire

Harwell

OX11 0QR

UK

NUTS: UK

The contractor is an SME: No

VI.4.1) Review body

VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained