Anglian Water has gone out to tender with a contract  for coastal waters surveys worth an estimated £3. 4 million.

The contract, which will run for three years, is to carry out Quantitative Microbial Source Apportionment (QMSA) and tracer studies to determine the cause of bacteriological failures at designated bathing waters in the Anglian region.

This will include investigation of water company assets and other 3rd party sources of potential contamination including river inputs. The successful supplier will be required to produce a report at each site detailing the faecal indicator levels in the water at each designated sampling point measures to show fluctuations in diurnal patterns and where the likely source of the faecal indicators is coming from.

Anglian Water is looking for expressions of interest from organisations with a number of specific capabilities, including:

• The lab analysis must be undertaken by a UKAS accredited laboratory with the ability to analyse faecal indicator organisms
• Have ISO 17025 or equivalent to cover their analysis and sampling programmes
• The ability to manufacture, deploy and analyse multiple microbial tracers systems to quantify bacteriological travel time and dilution in the marine environment
• The provision of mobile laboratory services is available
• Experience in gaining licences to work in marine environments from the Marine Management Office
• Experienced in marine sampling practices both terrestrial and boat based (to include experience in all matters relating to working on board boats in the marine environment)
• Able to work with water company derived sources of modelling data including marine and sewer hydraulic modelling.

Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 1^st Sptember 2015. Click here to access the tender documentation.