UK Hydrocarbons Monitoring Network 2025 STA

Concepts

• air quality management
• uk hydrocarbons monitoring network
• air pollution monitoring sites
• uk hydrocarbons monitoring network 2025 sta
• sta
• network
• 2025
• monitoring
• hydrocarbons
• hydrocarbon

Location

United Kingdom:

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Ricardo AEA

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Description

This is a voluntary ex ante transparency (VEAT) notice, indicating that Defra (on behalf of the Environment Agency (EA)) intends to enter into a contract with Ricardo AEA Ltd for UK Hydrocarbons Monitoring Network 2025. 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.Defra intends to award this contract following the expiry of a voluntary standstill period, 10 days from the date of publication of this notice.

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Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 90731100 - Air quality management

Legal Justification

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, the original contract was awarded following an open competitive procedure, in which only one supplier returned a bid.Based on the information detailed below, the conclusion is that Ricardo AEA Ltd is the only supplier able to provide these Services to the Environment Agency. To the best of our knowledge and investigations it is concluded that, given the Supplier’s exclusive rights (IPR) to the software required to ratify the data, and therefore the Services, only the incumbent Supplier can maintain the existing contract with the Environment Agency.- Ricardo has confirmed that they own IP in the software they use under the current contract. Further investigation by Environment Agency and Defra via a call to competition has confirmed that there is no competition amongst any potential suppliers and would not be a valid route to market.- To enable connection between the data collection and Supplier software, it would appear that a new supplier would have to develop their own software package for data ratification and this would critically have a significant disruptive effect on business-as-usual Environment Agency data reporting of Hydrocarbons monitoring measurements for UK requirements (obligations must be met under AQSR regulations).

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