Published date: 19 March 2025

Last edited date: 20 March 2025

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: 4 April 2025, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Beach-consolidation works - 45243400

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£30,000

Procurement reference

RSPBP0056

Published date

19 March 2025

Closing date

4 April 2025

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

21 April 2025

Contract end date

31 March 2027

Contract type

Works

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?

Yes

Description

The RSPB has secured funding to deliver sand and gravel beach recharge in the Blackwater Estuary. The Blackwater Estuary NFM project is funded through the Environment Agency's £25m Natural Flood Management Programme which aims to protect communities from flooding whilst providing benefit to nature and society.

Working with partners, Essex Wildlife Trust and Harwich Haven Authority, the RSPB will create and replenish approximately 6.7 Ha of shingle beach in the Blackwater Estuary to protect coastal flood defences and intertidal saltmarsh, whilst creating habitat for beach nesting birds, the nesting sites of which are increasingly under threat due to climate change induced sea level rise.

One of the requirements of the funding is to undertake monitoring to demonstrate the benefit of Natural Flood Management in reducing flood risk and filling knowledge gaps on the effectiveness of NFM. The RSPB and partners are undertaking a suite of monitoring to demonstrate the flood risk and ecological benefits of beach recharge. This will include the use of miniature buoys to measure and understand changes in hydrodynamic regime following a recharge campaign

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Supplier to compete ITT and additional documents will be accepted.
If you wish to discuss any aspect of this tender prior to submitting a bid, please email james.dunn@rspb.org.uk

About the buyer

Contact name

James Dunn

Address

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
The Lodge
SANDY
SG192DL
England

Email

james.dunn@rspb.org.uk

Website

https://www.rspb.org.uk