Published date: 28 January 2025

This notice was replaced on 12 June 2025

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Awarded contract (published 12 June 2025)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Global navigation and positioning systems (GPS or equivalent) - 38112100

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£1,000 to £5,250

Procurement reference

NE280125AETDGPS

Published date

28 January 2025

Closing date

9 February 2025

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

10 February 2025

Contract end date

10 May 2025

Contract type

Supply 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

This contract will provide the GPS tags to be owned by Natural England and to be subsequently loaned out to a third party to study Turtle Doves in the 2025/26 breeding season.

Defra's Agri-environment schemes include both the existing Environmental Stewardship, Countryside Stewardship, and the newer Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and Landscape Recovery. Natural England's Agri-environment team is working closely with farmers and landowners to use the schemes offered by DEFRA to deliver nature recovery at a landscape-scale. Understanding how species respond to Agri-environment actions is crucial to target investment properly.

Turtle doves are a Red-Listed species and a species of European Conservation Concern (Vulnerable). Kent holds one-third of the UK's population and more than any other individual county. The project aims to investigate turtle dove use of agri-environment schemes in the Low Weald area including hedges and scrub creation for nesting and roosting, agri-environment feeding plots, cultivated margins and areas, and ponds, and to evaluate their distribution across agri-environment landscapes. An understanding of the population dynamics of these populations could potentially be generated as an outcome.

To apply for this opportunity you must submit your quotation meeting the requirements detailed in the Request for Quotation (RFQ) attached.
Your response must be sent to elyse.ward@naturalengland.org.uk by 23:59 on 09/02/2025.

If you have any clarification questions linked to this opportunity or the procurement process please submit these via email to elyse.ward@naturalengland.org.uk. Please note that, unless commercially sensitive, both the question and the response will be circulated to all tenderers.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Elyse Ward

Address

9th Floor, International House
Dover Place
Ashford
TN23 1HU
England

Telephone

07990722663

Email

elyse.ward@naturalengland.org.uk