Published date: 4 December 2018

Last edited date: 4 December 2018

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 17 December 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Environmental services - 90700000

Location of contract

Scotland

Value of contract

£24,000

Procurement reference

C18-0241-1290

Published date

4 December 2018

Closing date

17 December 2018

Contract start date

3 January 2019

Contract end date

15 March 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

As a first step to develop and implement a UK Plan of Action on incidental bycatch of seabirds in UK waters, an assessment is required of the impact of bycatch on UK seabird populations. To date no comprehensive assessment has been made, so the scale of any "problem" is unclear, as are what management or further monitoring should be sought (if any) and how bycatch should be prioritised in relation to other pressures.

The aims of the Project are:

1. To ascertain whether current levels of bycatch are causing a reduction in population growth rate of marine bird populations;
2. Predict what would happen to population growth rates of marine bird populations in the event that bycatch mitigation measures were deployed across relevant fisheries.

Estimates of overall mortality of marine birds (species by species) occurring within UK marine waters will be provided to the contractor (to be delivered under a separate contract), using estimates of bycatch rates from the Protected Species Bycatch Monitoring Programme and estimates of fishing effort.

The main challenges of this work are incomplete knowledge/understanding in four areas:
A. Magnitude of bycatch
B. Size of the seabird population exposed to risk of bycatch in UK waters
C. Status/demographic parameters of seabird populations
D. Inability to forecast seabird population size into the future

The proposed contract is to account for lack of knowledge and uncertainty around the above parameters, using the general approach of running a range of plausible scenarios, even though we don't know which scenario is closest to reality. This allows us to investigate under which scenarios bycatch would be a problem, requiring for example further monitoring and/or management.

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You are invited by JNCC Support Co (JNCC) to submit a tender for the supply of works or services required under the above project. If interested, you should download and carefully read the documents contained within the zip file or by following the link.http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-7698

About the buyer

Contact name

Dora Iantosca

Address

Monkstone House
City Road
Peterborough
PE1 1JY
England

Telephone

01733 866894

Email

dora.iantosca@jncc.gov.uk

Website

jncc.defra.gov.uk