Published date: 6 October 2016

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Awarded contract (published 24 November 2016, last edited 24 November 2016)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Research consultancy services - 73210000

  • Environmental impact assessment other than for construction - 90711000

  • Pollution tracking and monitoring and rehabilitation - 90730000

    • Services related to oil pollution - 90741000

Location of contract

Scotland

Value of contract

£10,000

Procurement reference

C16-0287-1046

Published date

6 October 2016

Closing date

26 October 2016

Contract start date

7 November 2016

Contract end date

28 February 2017

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

This project aims to evidence possible impacts associated with rock dumping during the decommissioning of oil and gas infrastructure on mobile Annex I sandbanks which are slightly covered by seawater all the time, using North Norfolk Sandbanks and Saturn Reef cSAC/SCI as a case study.
Project Background
The next three decades will see a major decommissioning of UK oil and gas infrastructure with >8,000 platforms, pipelines and wells needing decommissioning around the UK. Within offshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), there are challenges and complexities beyond that of decommissioning activities out with MPAs as the potential impacts of human activities must be assessed against the conservation objectives established and advised by JNCC for the site. There are considerable scientific uncertainties around the impacts associated with the process of decommissioning, none more so than where decommissioning occurs on or near Annex I tidal current (mobile) sandbanks.

Industry, regulators and Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies (SNCBs) alike must comply with obligations set out in environmental legislation, and face individual sets of challenges in understanding potential impacts within MPAs. JNCC's role within national and European legislation is to establish and advise on conservation objectives for MPAs, and with the SNCBs, to provide advice on whether potential impacts associated with human activities may have an adverse effect on protected features or site integrity. Industry faces challenges regarding fulfilling their environmental obligations and regulators need to be able to introduce risk-based procedures for assessing effect in consenting operations. Within MPAs, competent authorities, having considered advice given from the appropriate statutory nature conservation body, must assess the proposed operations against the site's conservation objectives.
Improving our understanding of how decommissioning operations can effect Annex I mobile sandbanks would support the provision of more robust advice to regulators and other interested parties, support site specific and national assessments of impacts and allow competent authorities to undertake a more robust decision-making process.

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You are invited by JNCC Support Co. (JNCC) to submit a tender for the supply of works and services required under the above project.

You should download and read carefully the following documents:
1. Invitation to tender letter (complete proforma)
2. A specification detailing the service required (Annex A).
3. Instructions for tenderers (PS4a). (Please note paragraph 3 in particular.)
4. A set of Terms and Conditions PS6 and PS8.
5. Other documents as detailed below:

PS12 JNCC travel and accommodation rates
PS26 JNCC anti-virus policy document
JNCC Evidence Quality policy
To be eligible for consideration your tender must arrive by 16:00 hours on Wednesday 26 October 2016. Please submit your return by email to the following address: TenderResponse@jncc.gov.uk.
Having considered the requirements of this contract please confirm under signature on the proforma attached to the invitation to tender letter (ITT) that there will be no conflict of interest between this contractual relationship and any other contractual relationship with any other third party and your acceptance of our Terms and Conditions.

Further information can be found here by following the link below:

http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-7314

About the buyer

Contact name

Dora Iantosca

Address

Monkstone House
City Road
Peterborough
PE1 1JY
England

Email

dora.iantosca@jncc.gov.uk

Website

www.jncc.defra.gov.uk