Published date: 21 June 2019

Last edited date: 21 June 2019

This notice was replaced on 2 August 2019

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 2 August 2019)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Ornamental plants, grasses, mosses or lichens - 03441000

  • Bedding plants - 03451100

  • Flower bulbs - 03451200

    • Shrubs - 03451300

    • Trees - 03452000

    • Logging services - 77210000

    • Forestry management services - 77231000

    • Planting and maintenance services of green areas - 77310000

    • Tree pruning and hedge trimming - 77340000

    • Environmental management - 90710000

    • Environmental protection - 90720000

Location of contract

West Midlands, South West

Value of contract

£80,000 to £107,000

Procurement reference

Biodiversity Contract ITT - ERDF Wild Towns

Published date

21 June 2019

Closing date

16 July 2019

Contract start date

30 July 2019

Contract end date

30 September 2021

Contract type

Service 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

ERDF Wild Towns Project

Thanks to a generous contribution from the European Regional Development Fund and a portfolio of other funders, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust are leading the ERDF Wild Towns Project in Gloucestershire, along with our partners Severn Trent Water, Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group South West and Severn Rivers Trust.

Wild Towns will create, connect and enhance green spaces for wildlife in 7 towns across Gloucestershire. This project focuses on improving biodiversity in market towns. In each of these highly contested urban environments, the project will deliver improved ecological networks, enhanced green infrastructure, and natural solutions to water management. These outcomes will be delivered through: the creation of biodiverse grasslands; management of woodlands; removal of in river barriers to fish; creating refuges for key species; and the creation of pond networks.

The project will achieve broad coverage across Gloucestershire. In the Stroud District interventions will take place along the Nailsworth to Stonehouse corridor. In the Forest of Dean, the project will focus around Cinderford and in the Cotswolds, projects will take place in Cirencester, Fairford, Tetbury and Moreton-in-Marsh.

This biodiversity contract represents the heart of this project - delivering the main interventions against which the project will be measured. 35 interventions across the 7 towns are to deliver scrub and woodland management, grassland management and wildflower meadow creation, bat and bird box schemes and more.
Please see the attached Invitation to Tender and send expressions of interest and then completed forms via email to will.masefield@gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk.

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NB Item 28 - Gloucestershire County Council have now taken on the eradication of the Japanese Knotweed in Nailsworth/Stroud, so please do not quote for this item. You can simply write N/A against Item 28.

About the buyer

Contact name

Will Masefield

Address

Reservoir Road
GLOUCESTER
GL46SX
England

Telephone

01451 810853

Email

will.masefield@gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk

Website

https://www.gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk/erdf-wild-towns