Published date: 1 March 2023

Last edited date: 1 March 2023

This notice was replaced on 1 March 2023

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Opportunity (published 1 March 2023, last edited 1 March 2023)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Environmental services - 90700000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£200,000 to £375,000

Procurement reference

CF-0043900D8d000003VQwdEAG

Published date

1 March 2023

Closing date

3 April 2023

Closing time

10am

Contract start date

1 June 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

An element of the NCEA programme is the England Ecosystem Survey (EES) which is a new method of collecting environmental data. The aim of the EES is to get a true understanding of the condition of England's terrestrial environment, and to do this we need to identify landowners and land users, and secure land access permission to carry out surveys on their land. The surveys, which will be conducted under a separate contracting method to this contract, will collect data relating to habitats, vegetation, peat and landscape as well as soil and water biota eDNA and support Natural England's earth observation programme.
The requirement is split in to two parts:

Part 1 - 2024 Access Permission Contact and Request Process
- Contact and responses for 2024 (940 monads with up to 6 1ha squares within each).
- Gaining access permission for England Ecosystem Survey 2024.
- Expected to be completed by October 2023

Part 2 - 2023 Response and Acknowledgement Process
- Responding to survey participants from 2023
- Will commence October 2023 and will focus on contacting landowners who gave permission for survey in 2023 and thanking them for their participation

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

tNCEA Access Permissions 23/24

  • Opportunity
  • Published 1 March 2023

About the buyer

Contact name

Lucy Coulson

Address

Horizon House, Deanery Road
Bristol
BS1 5TL
GB

Email

lucy.coulson@defra.gov.uk