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MCA - Maritime and Coastguard Agency

Dispersant Testing Requirements

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71900000
Value£326k
Awarded16 Sept 2024
Published17 Oct 2024
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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£326ktotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

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The brief

The UK Government have a legal obligation to respond to pollution events, usually the first port of call is chemical dispersants and therefore it is imperative to ensure the efficacy of this is in line with international standards.

MCA hold approximately 1200 tons of chemical dispersant.

This needs to be tested every 5 years to ensure the efficacy is 50% or higher.

In the last 5 years less than half of our stockpile has been tested, which means we have 716 tons that still require testing, of which some of this has never been tested since its initial purchase (up to 30 years).

MCA have now sorted each lot of dispersant into a batch, so that one from each batch can be tested every 5 years to save cost.

This will equate to roughly 120 tests every 5 years.

The quality of the tests must be consistent with the Warren Springs Laboratory method for testing chemical dispersants.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The UK Government have a legal obligation

The UK Government have a legal obligation to respond to pollution events, usually the first port of call is chemical dispersants and therefore it is imperative to ensure the efficacy of this is in line with international standards.

02

This needs to be tested every 5

This needs to be tested every 5 years to ensure the efficacy is 50% or higher.

03

The quality of the tests must

The quality of the tests must be consistent with the Warren Springs Laboratory method for testing chemical dispersants.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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