# OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE TOXIC ORGANIC MICRO POLLUTANTS \(TOMPs\) 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: [Lancaster University](/contract-winners/lancaster-university/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £246,752
- Tender value: £247,000
- Award date: 9 August 2016
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Contract start: 1 October 2016
- Contract end: 30 September 2019
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: cc9f3827-a3f9-4592-a7f1-49ed01eb649e-97340
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-b1569b4b-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

The Authority is looking for a supplier to manage and operate the Toxic Organic Micro Pollutants \(TOMPs\) Network, and analyse, and report on ambient levels of selected Persistent Organic Pollutants \(POPs\) in the UK through monitoring at six sites, to inform policy development on environmental and human exposure to POPs, and to provide information on the sources of POPs in the atmosphere\. The TOMPs Network is responsible for contributing to the monitoring of UK air quality by providing measurement of the air concentrations of POPs at rural and urban locations in the UK\. Monitoring work complements emission inventory work, whilst also providing information on the sources of POP releases into the environment\. The Contractor will manage and operate the TOMPs Network, and analyse and report on the data collected for a period of three years with an option to extend the contract for up to a further one year in a one year increment\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/cc9f3827-a3f9-4592-a7f1-49ed01eb649e-97340)