Geophysical surveys will be carried out in mine shafts or boreholes to determine the hydrogeological, geochemical and physical conditions.
Surveys will be required in a wide variety of mine shafts (both coal and metal mines) and boreholes across the UK.
Shafts and boreholes may be up to approximately 1000m in depth and with diameters ranging from approximately 50mm to >5m.
Boreholes and shafts are present in a wide variety of settings including coal mines, metal mines, water boreholes and environmental observation boreholes.
The age and condition of the shafts and boreholes is highly variable and includes dry and flooded conditions, mine gases present/not present, variable geological formations, open hole constructions, metal/plastic lined constructions, concrete/brick constructions and others.
This tender will be operated through our procurement portal InBye
Additional information: Coal Authority tenders are now being undertaken by the Authority's eTender portal InBye, details of how to register are attached to this notice.
Should you wish to participate in any electronic tender exercise you will need to register your company details, which will require the provision of some company information and agreement to terms and conditions to access the system.
Use of the system is free of charge.
In order to register please log on to https://inbye.coal.gov.uk/s2c/
Should you have any difficulties with this procedure, please contact Peter Kobryn - peterkobryn@coal.gov.uk
A flexible pool of technical resources on a Time & Materials (T&M) basis to assist to complete the migration, development and support of its enterprise services to the cloud - sourced via Gcloud 13
Provision of - 5 Premium datacentre licences and 7 standard datacentre licences. Direct Award under Health Trust Europe framework following a benchmarking exercise
The Coal Authority invites you to tender for the provision of Scientific Services to support our Environment Strategy and Sustainability team in the development of novel treatment technologies and the improvement of existing treatment technologies on our schemes. In addition, the Coal Authority undertakes a range of works as part of a Public Safety & Subsidence activities that involve the monitoring and remediation of properties impacted by mining hazards including the build-up radioactive gases.
This framework will be to provide accredited laboratory and monitoring services for the laboratory analysis of water, solids and gases to support core and commercial project and operational activities related to mine water treatment and public safety and subsidence primarily.
It is intended that the framework will be comprised of 2 lots: Laboratory Analysis and Radiological Gas Monitoring.
Additional information: This tender will be operated through our procurement portal InBye. If you have any questions about this opportunity please contact Sarah Kendrick, Procurement Business Partner - sarahkendrick@coal.gov.uk
The Coal Authority invites you to tender for the provision of implementing and providing ongoing support and maintenance for the replacement project management system from PWA to Project Online.
Specifically the Authority is looking to identify a supplier that is able to achieve the following four outline scopes of requirement:
• Deployment and implementation of the new project and programme management software to replace the Authority's current Microsoft in PWA software. This being Microsoft Project Online.
• Migration of the existing data set under PWA
• To provide initial and then ongoing training and support including any system changes and development throughout the life of the contract
• To provide ongoing service management and maintenance of the replacement system
The opportunity is for an initial 3 year period with an option to extend by a further year.
The scope is detailed within the Replacement Project Management System Specification and associated documents and tenderers are advised to read and consider all aspects of the tender document before preparing your tender submission.
The aim of the documents is to outline the minimum requirements needed by the Authority should your organisation be awarded the contract.
All documents are freely accessible on our procurement portal which can be found at this address - https://inbye.coal.gov.uk/s2c/
Please contact Joe Keir - Procurement Business Partner - joekeir@coal.gov.uk if there are any queries.
The Coal Authority invites you to tender for the drilling of a mine water monitoring borehole(s) to assess rising mine water on the surrounding environment at sites at Thornley and Deaf Hill. A review of the mine water block by the Coal Authority in 2020 highlighted the potential for elevated mine water levels at Thornely & Deaf Hill sites. Elevated mine water levels could pose a risk to the drinking water aquifers that overlie the mine workings.
Therefore, the Coal Authority intend to construct a borehole to intersect flooded underground workings. The borehole is to allow monitoring of mine water levels that are thought to be representative of the area.
The Coal Authority (Client) was established by Parliament to undertake specific statutory duties, set out in the Coal Industry Act 1994, associated with licensing coal mining operations; managing property and the historic legacy arising from the ownership of the coal reserves and underground workings; settling subsidence damage claims not falling on coal mine operators and providing access to coal mining information.
The Coal Authority has a legal duty under the Coal Mining Subsidence Act 1991, to repair properties damaged by coal mining subsidence in the five coalfield regions. The works are funded by grant in aid from central government, in order that the Coal Authority can discharge its statutory duty.
The Coal Authority employs over 300 people, based mainly at the head office in Mansfield with some field staff remotely based in order to enable a fast response to incidents in the coal mining areas.
The Coal Authority is funded by grant in aid from the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)
We are publishing this Framework opportunity to retender our Ground Investigation Framework,
The Coal Authority requires the provision of Ground investigation services which includes general items, boreholes, rotary drilling, pits and trenches, sampling, in-situ testing, geophysical testing, instrumentation and monitoring, laboratory testing, chemical testing for contaminated ground and attendance at framework meetings with the Client.
The works required under this framework will be located throughout the British coalfield areas which are split across the following five regions.
• Region 1 - Scotland East and West
• Region 2 - Cumbria / Northumberland / Co.Durham / Durham / Sunderland / Newcastle
• Region 3 - North Wales / Cheshire / Lancashire / Merseyside / North Yorkshire / West Yorkshire
• Region 4 - South Yorkshire / Nottinghamshire / Derbyshire / Leicestershire / Staffordshire / Shropshire / West Midlands / Warwickshire / Herefordshire / Worcestershire
• Region 5 - Somerset / South Gloucestershire / Bristol / South Wales / Pembrokeshire / North Gloucestershire (Forest of Dean)
These regions correspond with the UK Coal Fields. There may also be requirement for Ground Investigation within Mid Wales for examination of Metal mining fields.
The framework scope is the provision of ground investigation works and includes general items, boreholes, rotary drilling, pits and trenches, sampling, in-situ testing, geophysical testing, instrumentation and monitoring, laboratory testing, chemical testing for contaminated ground and attendance at framework meetings with the Client.
Interested parties can register for free ahead via the Coal Authority's Tender Portal Inbye at the following address:
https://inbye.coal.gov.uk/s2c/
Use of the system is Free of Charge but will require some company information and agreement to terms and conditions to access the system.
The Coal Authority invites you to tender for the provision of Ground Stabilisation by Drilling and Grouting Works. The framework will run for four years.
The Framework will comprise of three Lots. The lot structure can be found below. Tenderers may price for all Lots or the Lots of their choice.
Lot One: Drilling and Grouting with unobstructed open access equipment
Lot Two: Drilling with restricted height / restricted access equipment
Lot Three: Drilling and Solution Grouting with restricted height / restricted access equipment
The works required under this framework will be located throughout the British coalfield areas and split across the following five regions.
Region 1 - Scotland East and West
Region 2 - Cumbria / Northumberland / Co.Durham / Durham / Sunderland / Newcastle
Region 3 - North Wales / Cheshire / Lancashire / Merseyside / North Yorkshire / West Yorkshire
Region 4 - South Yorkshire / Nottinghamshire / Derbyshire / Leicestershire / Staffordshire / Shropshire / West Midlands / Warwickshire / Herefordshire / Worcestershire
Region 5 - Somerset / South Gloucestershire / Bristol / South Wales / Pembrokeshire / North Gloucestershire (Forest of Dean)
Interested parties should register at the Inbye Portal and download the documents from the following link
https://inbye.coal.gov.uk/s2c/
Head Office - Manned Security Services which comprises of the 3 main buildings and associated grounds for an initial 3 year period with an option to extend for a further 1 year period.
The service required under this contract shall are;
- Services required 52 weeks a year including bank holidays with the following shift patterns likely to be:
16:30pm - 08:45am Monday to Thursday
16:00pm - 08:00am Friday to Saturday AM.
24 hours at weekends and bank holidays
- Permanent pool of suitably SIA licenced / DBS checked guards with a bank of relief guards that can step-in as and when required.
- Use of relief guards will need to be agreed and there should be no disruption to the service with immediate relief cover to be provided within 1 hour.
Anticipated duties of the guards will include but not limited to:
1. General Manned Guarding and Security Service
2. Patrols (Fixed or static guarding)
3. CCTV / Alarm Monitoring
4. Control of Access / Security Passes
5. Key Holding
6. Emergency Response
7. Reactive Guarding
8. Enhanced Security Requirements
9. Support Service
10. Risk Assessments
Hydrometry Framework
The Coal Authority (TCA) was established by Parliament to undertake specific statutory duties, set out in the Coal Industry Act 1994, associated with licensing coal mining operations; managing property and the historic legacy arising from the ownership of the coal reserves and underground workings; settling subsidence damage claims and providing access to coal mining information.
The Authority is funded by Grant-in-Aid from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). The Authority takes pride in its achievements, quality and motivation of staff, and is focused on delivering its high level objectives sustainably.
Requirement Overview
As part of our work, we require the provision of Hydrometric monitoring services, and are thus seeking to appoint suppliers to a framework which will run for 4 years from August 2024.
Deliverables from this Framework are to provide a service(s) to undertake Hydrometric Monitoring for the Coal Authority, at coal and metal mine sites across the UK.
The Framework will be divided into 6 lots.
1 Options Assessment, design and build
2 Weirs and Flumes
3 Loggers, Water Level Sensors, Rain Gauges, velocity sensors and Water Quality Sensors
4 Spot Flow Gauging and Water Quality Sampling
5 Flow meter verification
6 Hydrometric Monitoring (General Lot)
Framework Users
The primary users will be the Authority's Operations directive. However, other departments, may use the Framework.
This Framework will also be available for use by National Resource Wales (NRW) for similar types of services in relation to current and historic coal and non-coal mining operations.
This contract was awarded for the supply of Interferomatric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technology providing the ability to detect ground movement in the Gateshead area (UK) from satellites. The provision and analysis of InSAR data provides a means of assessing ground stability within the Walker mine block during the Shearlegs Road scheme Project Term.
The contract contains two parts:
Historical archives requirements (Sentinel-1 Two Look Direction):
A once-off baseline level data analysis obtainable from historical Sentinel-1 (S1) data collections for the AOI shown in Section 1.
Ongoing monitoring requirements (TSX One Look Direction)
TerraSAR-X satellite (TSX) high resolution data is to be collected in spotlight mode with 2m raw pixel spacing to deliver outputs with ~2.5-3m product pixel spacing.
Provision of a Network Operations Centre including:
- Fournet service desk
- CISCO Hardware and Software support
- DNS management & Connectivity management
- Proactive Monitoring & Backup
- Service management
and Security Operations Centre including:
- Security related response activity for Cisco Secure Endpoint, including threat investigation, containment and device isolation.
- Security related response activity for Cisco Umbrella
- Security related response activity for Cisco FTD/Firepower
- Security related response activity for Cisco network infrastructure
- Provision of security telemetry
- Production of a monthly threat report,
Undertake a review of the proposed options, to understand the opportunities and constraints in delivering the actual works.
Carry out the removal/ treatment of Japanese knotweed in its entirety via a local burial method including excavation, plant hire, operators, supervisor of works, labour, 2 year monitoring minimum, Japanese knotweed management plan production, waste (if any from site
using the appropriate methods), scope production and guarantees (if any).
The Coal Authority has awarded a contract for the provision of VMWare vSphere Licensing & Support.
This contract was awarded via CCS TePAS 2 Framework following competitive quotation with 5 suppliers.
The Coal Authority has awarded a contract for the provision of VEEAM Backup and Replication Enterprise software.
This contract was awarded via CCS TePAS 2 Framework following competitive quotation with 6 suppliers.
The Coal Authority wish to appoint a contractor to carry out a mine water pumping test in Langwith mine shaft at the former Langwith Colliery, Derbyshire, centred on approximate Ordnance Survey National Grid Reference (OS NGR) SK 529 706.
The aim of the pumping test is to:
• Test the suitability of the mineshaft for pumping;
• Test hydraulic connection to nearby monitoring sites;
• Test the chemistry of the pumped mine water at the site.
• Assess the rate of recharge to the mine workings;
Additional information: eTender Registration Information
Coal Authority tenders are now being undertaken by the Authority's eTender portal InBye, details of how to register are detailed below.
Should you wish to participate in any electronic tender exercise you will need to register your company details, which will require the provision of some company information and agreement to terms and conditions to access the system.
Use of the system is free of charge.
In order to register please log on to https://inbye.coal.gov.uk/s2c/
Should you have any difficulties with this procedure, please contact Sarah Kendrick - sarahkendrick@coal.gov.uk
The despatch, completion and return of tenders will be undertaken electronically.
The Coal Authority has awarded a contract for the provision of standard & higher specification laptops, extended 5 year laptop warranties and replenishment of peripheral stock.
This contract was awarded following receipt of 4 quotations.