Official UK procurement notice
Agricultural and Environmental Advice Services
Authority: Welsh Government
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Welsh Ministers aims to award a contract to enable the commissioning of technical agricultural and environmental advice services to inform policy development and operations. The contract will be used for a wide range of services, from the development of Regulatory Impact Assessments to assess proposed regulatory interventions to the delivery of the helpline to support farms to implement the Control of Agricultural Pollution Regulations and includes the following areas:
-Agricultural pollution, climate change, environment and biodiversity
- Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA Agriculture).
- Agricultural Land Tribunal.
- Plant Health, Invasive Non-Native Species, Pesticides and Biocides, Seeds, Genetically Modified (GM) crops and Wildlife.
- Soils (including Agricultural Land Classification – ALC - and peatlands),
- Agricultural tenancies,
- Agricultural Minimum Wage
- Any other additional agricultural or environmental advice.
Much of the work completed under this contract is vital to ensuring that our statutory duties are met.
CPV: Activity specific environmental auditing services · Agricultural services · Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services · Corporate environmental auditing services · Environmental issues consultancy services · Environmental quality control services · Environmental services · Sectoral environmental auditing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Renewal
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Technical: 70%
- price: 30%
Published award criteria (2)
- Technical: 70
- Price: 30
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 17 Jun 2022, 14:52 BST
- Last source update
- 17 Jun 2022, 14:52 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 18 Jul 2022 – …
- Authority reference
C412/2021/2022- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-016701- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0347e2Find a Tender
Publisher note: NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=122264 Under the terms of this contract the successful supplier(s) will be required to deliver Community Benefits in support of the authority’s economic and social objectives. Accordingly, contract performance conditions may relate in particular to social and environmental considerations. The Community Benefits included in this contract are: Non-core Community benefits are required by all bidders as set out in Section 20 of the Specification. (WA Ref:122264) The buyer considers that this contract is suitable for consortia.
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml ↗
- Submission deadline
- 11 Jul 2022, 14:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 18 Jul 2022, 14:00 BST
Timeline
17 Jun 2022 → 18 Jul 2022 · 3 dates- Notice published17 Jun 2022, 14:52 BST
- Submission deadline11 Jul 2022, 14:00 BST
- Bids opened18 Jul 2022, 14:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria