Published date: 20 February 2017

Last edited date: 20 February 2017

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: 22 February 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Work environment services - 98342000

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£145,000

Procurement reference

C16 -0291-1095

Published date

20 February 2017

Closing date

22 February 2017

Contract start date

3 April 2017

Contract end date

31 March 2022

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Project Aims
The Goose and Swan Monitoring Programme (GSMP) aims to deliver population estimates and trends both at UK and at site level, in order to assess the status of geese and swans wintering in the UK.
It also provides data and information about those demographic factors (e.g. breeding success) driving those trends: information that informs conservation action.
The outputs will help JNCC and other parts of government to fulfil statutory and international obligations for the conservation of wild birds, and the sites and habitats on which they depend. Data may also be used for adaptive management purposes, informing decisions regarding adaptation of populations to agreed target sizes - agreed within international frameworks as appropriate.
Project Background
The UK supports fourteen populations of geese and migratory swans, and for seven, the UK has particular responsibility as most of the population winters in the UK, or stops-over on migration. The GSMP includes surveys to monitor these populations, collecting data on abundance and demography (e.g. annual productivity as expressed by proportion of young in winter flocks). The species GSMP collects data on are those for which data is most important for conservation and management purposes (listed in the table in section 5).
The GSMP has been a partnership between JNCC, SNH and WWT for many years. WWT coordinates surveys primarily through their relationship with a volunteer network. The data collected are important for assessing both the biological and conservation status of geese and swans and guiding conservation action.
Data from the GSMP are fed into the Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) database, and hence GSMP has linkages to the JNCC, WWT, BTO and RSPB partnership delivering WeBS.
In the future, the work of GSMP will also be linked to a planned project providing cross-taxon support for analysis and development.

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You are invited by JNCC Support Co. (JNCC) to submit a tender for the supply of 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 PS10.
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 22 February 2017. 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-7371

About the buyer

Address

Monkstone House
City Road
Peterborough
PE1 1JY
England

Telephone

01733 562626

Email

dora.iantosca@jncc.gov.uk

Website

jncc.defra.gov.uk