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Natural Resources Wales

Modules from and membership to the NE Atlantic Marine Biological Analytical Quality Control Scheme (NMBAQC)

Business ServicesCPV 90700000
Value£95,775
Awarded
Published27 Feb 2026
RegionNationwide

£95,775 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded
Environment Agency

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Who to contact
jana.paulova@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£96ktotal contract value
median £195k
this tender£0£5.0m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Environment & Waste band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 11,894 valued Environment & Waste tenders in our corpus.

The brief

All UK Competent Monitoring Authority laboratories and their contractors undertaking sample analysis for statutory marine monitoring programmes are required to participate within an externally run analytical quality control scheme.

The NMBAQC fulfils this role.

The NMBAQC scheme is a quality assurance scheme developed on behalf of the UK competent monitoring authorities (CMAs).

Its principal aim is to provide assessment of marine biological data contributing to UK national or European monitoring programmes.

The NMBAQC scheme provides a source of external Quality Assurance (QA) for laboratories engaged in the production of marine biological data and supporting data (e.g. sediment particle size analysis).

NRW participates in the following modules; Fish Ring Tests (inc. reverse ring test), Rockyshore Macroalgae Ring Test, Opportunistic Macroalgae Ring Tests, Particle Size Analysis Ring Tests, Particle Size Own Sample Test, Benthic Invertebrate Own Sample and Benthic Invertebrate Laboratory Ring Test in order to participate in these modules and access additional resources on the NMBAQC website, NRW must also become a member of NMBAQC.

NRW participates in these modules to provide quality assurance of our marine and coastal data, collected by carrying out surveys and analysis.

These survey and analysis methodologies are assessed to a high national standard by participating in the NMBAQC scheme and provide NRW, and our customers with a high degree of confidence of our data.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

All UK Competent Monitoring Authority laboratories

All UK Competent Monitoring Authority laboratories and their contractors undertaking sample analysis for statutory marine monitoring programmes are required to participate within an externally run analytical quality control scheme.

02

Its principal aim is to provide assessment

Its principal aim is to provide assessment of marine biological data contributing to UK national or European monitoring programmes.

03

NRW participates in these modules to provide

NRW participates in these modules to provide quality assurance of our marine and coastal data, collected by carrying out surveys and analysis.

04

These survey and analysis methodologies are assessed

These survey and analysis methodologies are assessed to a high national standard by participating in the NMBAQC scheme and provide NRW, and our customers with a high degree of confidence of our data.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065e60
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
017949-2026
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