Published date: 6 March 2019

Last edited date: 6 March 2019

This notice was replaced on 9 July 2019

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

Awarded contract (published 9 July 2019)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Earthmoving and excavating machinery, and associated parts - 43200000

  • Civil engineering machinery - 43310000

  • Dredging and pumping works - 45252124

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

tender_194625/749571

Published date

6 March 2019

Closing date

28 March 2019

Contract start date

1 October 2019

Contract end date

20 December 2019

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 Hoveton Wetlands Restoration project aims to deliver the restoration of Hoveton Great Broad and Hudson's Bay. This will be achieved through a combination of sediment removal and bio manipulation, restoring them to favourable condition / good ecological status. This has been in a phased approach and this is the third stage.

This project is part of the Bure LIFE Project (LIFE14 NAT/UK/000054) which is financially supported by LIFE, a financial instrument of the European Community. It is also supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Natural England (NE) require a contractor to finish the mechanical movement of sediment from the bed of Hoveton Great Broad and Hudson's Bay, and to achieve an average minimum depth of 1.1m. The sediment moved is now to be used to back fill the already existing areas created by the already 'in place' geo tubes. Two of the in places tubes will also need some smaller geobags filled with sediment and placed on top where they are currently sitting too low in the water. The tubes/bags will then need to be capped with fen vegetation won from another area (already identified) to create new fen habitat.


Nesting birds, starts to happen from April/May onwards so by August to September birds will have stopped nesting. Therefore, NE would allow works to start at the beginning of October 2019 and would need to be finished by 20th Dec 2019.

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About the buyer

Address

Natural England
Peterborough
PE1 1NG
England

Email

Supplier.enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk