# Provision of Operation & Management - UK Eutrophication & Acidification Network

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS](/buyers/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Ricardo Energy and Environment
- Award value: £2,015,365
- Tender value: £2,015,365
- Award date: 1 August 2021
- Published: 13 May 2024
- Contract start: 1 August 2021
- Contract end: 31 July 2026
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 58eff4cf-a0d5-48ee-977d-2eeec3886ee4-750386
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-9bee1503-848b-4276-9d4d-c48d426502c9

## Description

The Environment Agency \('The Authority'\) on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs \(Defra\) and Devolved Administrations is seeking to procure a service provider to manage and operate the UK Eutrophication and Acidification Network, a network of air quality monitoring across the UK\. The UKEAP network consists of four rural air pollution monitoring networks and operation of two UK European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme \(EMEP\) Supersites\. The four networks are the; - Precipitation Network \(Precip-Net\) measuring rain composition across the UK; - National Ammonia Monitoring Network \(NAMN\), measuring ammonia concentrations across the UK; - Acid Gas and Aerosol Network \(AGANet\), measuring acid gas concentrations and inorganic aerosol \(~PM4\) composition; and - NO2 - Net network, measuring indicative NO2 concentrations\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/58eff4cf-a0d5-48ee-977d-2eeec3886ee4-750386)