Bespoke soil sampling equipment for England Ecosystem Survey

Concepts

• research and development
• england ecosystem survey
• bespoke soil sampling equipment
• natural england
• england
• assessment surveys
• the equipment
• survey
• equipment
• sampling

Location

United Kingdom:

Description

Provision of bespoke soil sampling equipment that were jointly developed by Natural England, Van Walt (supplier in England) and AMS (manufacturer in the USA). The equipment is required for England Ecosystem Survey soil sampling and assessment surveys.

Total Quantity or Scope

Single Tender Action

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 73200000 - Research and development consultancy services

Legal Justification

Single Tender Action with Van Walt UK under the Public Contract Regulations 2015: Regulation 32 (2) (b) (ii) – the negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public words contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases: - (b) where the works, suppliers or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons: - (ii) competition is absent for technical reasons.Van Walt are the sole supplier of bespoke equipment produced by AMS (a US company). There is no option to source alternative equipment that could maintain consistency with scientific protocols and methodologies undertaken to date. ). The equipment was used in year 1 of the survey. 24 sets of equipment were purchased previously with the value exceeding £200k. They will be used together with new sets as the number of survey teams will be double compared to 2023/24 survey season. This STA relates to the procurement of some additional pieces of this equipment, required to fulfil this year’s survey scope and the three future years, should funding be available. Switching to different equipment would render data collected so far incomparable with new data.

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