Support for National Air Pollution Control Strategies 2018-2020

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The UK has recently adopted some targets to reduce emissions of five damaging air pollutants (ammonia, nitrogen oxides, non-methane volatile organic compounds, fine particulate matter and sulphur dioxide) by 2020 and 2030; aiming to cut early deaths from air pollution by half. The Government is developing a new Clean Air Strategy, setting out a work plan towards these goals, for consultation in 2018. The new reduction targets support the objectives of the international Gothenburg Protocol and the revised National Emission Ceilings Directive (NECD; (EU) 2016/2284). The Clean Air Strategy will inform the development of the UK National Air Pollution Control Programme (NAPCP, Article 6 of the NECD), which will lay out the detail of how the UK will meet legally binding emission targets for each pollutant. The NAPCP will be established in 2019. In order to assist the Authority in the development of the Clean Air Strategy and the NAPCP, a capability is needed to develop and maintain tools to assess the impact of a wide range of potential national scale policies on air quality with a view to identifying the most cost effective control strategies to achieve compliance with emission ceilings. The Authority has split the work into two lots as the subject-matter and resulting skills and experience required to deliver each lot are recognised to be different. This provides tendering organisations who fulfil the requirements in just one lot to be able to bid for one lot. Tendering organisations may also bid for both lots. The Authority is aware of at least two organisations who can potentially bid for lot 2 but couldn’t bid for lot 1; thus will give room to maximize competition and value for money. The Contractor(s) will be required to establish and actively maintain links between the two lots to take advantage of and to co-ordinate where necessary the sharing of information and the development and application of tools. Contractors will be required to alig