Expired contract

Evaluation of MicroCarb

Details

Buyer: UK Shared Business Services - UKSBS
Supplier(s): Pye Tait Ltd
Value: £35,800
Duration: 4 months
Topic: Research and development services and related consultancy services
Published: 10 December 2024
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

***** THIS IS AN AWARD NOTICE, NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION ***** This procurement is being concluded following a mini competition under the CCS RM6126 - Research and Insights framework. Brief Description of Requirement MicroCarb is a ground-breaking European satellite mission intended to monitor the atmospheric load of Carbon Dioxide and gauge how much carbon is being absorbed by oceans and forests. MicroCarb is an important mission for the UK and for the international community. It is a pilot for future Agency programmes and as such offers valuable opportunities to learn lessons for future programme design and implementation. Considered a successor to other carbon dioxide missions such as Greenhouse gas Observing Satellite (GOSAT) and Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), the objective of MicroCarb is to monitor the fluxes of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere, oceans and vegetation.

Timeline

Completed: Award date25 November 2024
Completed: Award published10 December 2024
Current notice
Completed: Contract expiry date31 March 2025

About the buyer

UK Shared Business Services - UKSBS is a central government shared services provider whose procurement team runs procurements for public bodies such as UK Research & Innovation. Frameworks hosted by the service, such as one for laboratory consumables, are open to eligible public bodies. Advice on procurement routes and supplier performance sits with the same team. Suppliers to the shared service centre itself have mostly been appointed through Crown Commercial Service frameworks.

Over the past 5 years, most of UK Shared Business Services - UKSBS's contract awards have been in business services, software and information systems and research and development.

Decision makers

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