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PFAS Developing Targets & Quality Standards

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

Buyer Contact Info

Buyer Name: ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

Buyer Address: Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street, London, UKI32, SW1P 4DF, United Kingdom

Contact Email: procurement@defra.gov.uk

Buyer Name: DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

Status
complete
Procedure
open
Value
49939.14 GBP
Published
14 Oct 2025, 08:32
Deadline
n/a
Contract Start
13 Oct 2025, 23:00
Contract End
28 Feb 2026, 23:59
Category
n/a
CPV
73110000 - Research services
Region
n/a
Awarded To
Jacobs UK Ltd
Official Source
Open Find a Tender

Description

This project, to be completed by February 2026, will review the readily available hazard data for several specific PFAS, required to derive thresholds for human health via consumption of fish and for the protection of aquatic life. Where sufficient relevant and reliable data is available for each of the individual PFAS considered, this will be used to derive interim thresholds for these specific PFAS using the approach outlined in the EQS (Environmental Quality Standards) guidance (EC, 2018 - Guidance No 27 - Deriving Environmental Quality Standards - version 2018.pdf). In the absence of an EQS for these substances, these interim thresholds will be used by the Environment Agency (EA) to contextualise the concentrations of these substances detected from surface water monitoring and present in discharges to water environment to help understand the potential risk associated with the concentrations detected.

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Opportunity Context

Lots

Lot 1 Status: complete

Contracts

Contract Title: PFAS Developing Targets & Quality Standards

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