Official UK procurement notice
Request for Information- England Ecosystem Survey: Vegetation and Landscape Field Data Collection
Authority: NATURAL ENGLAND (Defra Network eTendering Portal)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNatural England are developing a specification for England Ecosystem Surveys: Vegetation and Landscape field data collection <br/>This data shall assist Natural England in developing the specification and to inform a potential procurement strategy. The data required to assist the development of the strategy includes:<br/><br/>- The biogeographical zones your organisation could cover<br/>- Any assumptions that have informed your estimation of how many monads could be surveyed over a three-month period<br/>-Detail on how you would resource the delivery of field surveys<br/>-Supplier capacity to deliver the surveys<br/>- Availability of staff with FISC/BSBI level 3, 4 and above botanical field skills, or equivalent experience<br/><br/>The procurement strategy and route to market is yet to be confirmed, however, the procurement is expected to be advertised before the end of November 2023 with an anticipated Contract start date of March 1st 2024. The data collected from the returned surveys shall be used to inform the requirement, procurement route and any other potential upcoming procurements. <br/><br/>The survey and draft specification is available upon request from dgc.NCEA.Commercial@defra.gov.uk or the attachment on the equivalent Contracts Finder notice. Please return the completed survey by 16:00 November 3rd 2023 to the aforementioned email address. <br/>Please note that this is an Expression of Interest and Request for Information only; a further notice shall be released once the procurement is advertised.
CPV: Environmental services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planning and delivery of quality field surveys of a range of vegetation and landscape…Planned
Planning and delivery of quality field surveys of a range of vegetation and landscape elements at targeted areas within a monad. The aim for 2024-25 is to carry out the surveys in 750 monads in total with an anticipated 250-400 monads contracted via the open tender route. However, this is subject to change. Additional information: Please note that this is an Expression of Interest and Request for Information only; a further notice shall be released once the procurement is advertised.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 24 Oct 2023, 05:40 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Oct 2023, 05:40 BST
- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-031274- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-040e6cFind a Tender
Publisher note: An element of the NCEA programme is the England Ecosystem Survey (EES) which is an ambitious new method of collecting environmental data. The aim of the EES is to get a true understanding of the condition of England’s terrestrial environment and natural capital assets. To achieve this the survey will collect data on attributes of extent condition and connectivity relating to habitats, vegetation and landscape features and landscape character, as well as soil physical and chemical properties and soil and water biota eDNA. It will also collect data to support Natural England’s earth observation programme. Change will be assessed through repeat surveys on a five-year cycle<br/><br/>The basic survey unit is a 1km2 area based on Ordnance Survey National Grid squares, or monads. Each year a new sample of monads will be surveyed through a combined sampling approach of randomly selected squares stratified by ITE land classes, and a proportion targeted to increase the likelihood of covering certain habitat, soil and landscape character types. The baseline sample will be established over the first five-year period.<br/>Following a period of method development, piloting and refinement, the first full field survey took place in 2023, aiming to scale this up in 2024
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
24 Oct 2023 → 27 Nov 2023 · 2 dates- Notice published24 Oct 2023, 05:40 BST
- Tender notice expected27 Nov 2023
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Official documents & specifications
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