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DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS

Pre Planting Ground Preparation

Agriculture & ForestryCPV 77200000
Value£90k
Awarded7 Jun 2015
Published13 May 2015
RegionNorth East
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£90ktotal contract value
median £150k
this tender£0£3.5m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Agriculture, Forestry & Horticulture band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 3,317 valued Agriculture, Forestry & Horticulture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Forestry Commission, North England Forest District wish to establish a contract for ground preparation work in order to deliver a time–bound programme of work as safely and effectively as possible and at optimum value Expressions of interest are sought from suitably experienced and competent contractors to carry out ground preparation work within remote forest blocks across North Forest England District.

The works will need to be completed over 4 months to allow for subsequent operations.

There is an option of a similar quantity in the following year, if operations are completed to a satisfactory standard.

The work is predominantly although not restricted to North Lancashire, North and West Cumbria.

Majority of ground preparation work will be trench/scratch mounding, creating a minimum of 2700 mounds per net hectare, to a uniform pattern.

The contract will also include additional mounding carried out to a number of lower densities with varying layouts.

Other operations to include brash raking, drainage, formation of access tracks and shooting mounds.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Forestry Commission, North England Forest District wish

Forestry Commission, North England Forest District wish to establish a contract for ground preparation work in order to deliver a time–bound programme of work as safely and effectively as possible and at optimum value.

02

The works will need to be completed

The works will need to be completed over 4 months to allow for subsequent operations.

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