CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address

1.2

Address from which documentation may be obtained

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Completed documents must be returned to:

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Tech Tyfu Scaleup Gwasanaethau Arbenigol

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

Tech Tyfu Scale to Success will build on the successes, opportunities and results of the Tech Tyfu pilot scheme to embed vertical farming into the Welsh economy. It will pioneer the use of vertical farming and develop sustainable supply chains for vertically farmed produce. The project will grow high value crops which are of increasing demand locally and in restaurants but are not being grown commercially in the area. The project will develop these into self-sustaining supply chains.

This project will both offer growers opportunities to develop skills in collaborative growing and will facilitate the upscaling of equipment necessary to permanently establish themselves as growers and improve business resilience. This contract relates to the provision of this second feature.

Growers who have participated in the Tech Tyfu pilot project will be the first to be offered the opportunity to design and build new vertical farming infrastructure to increase capacity of their supply chains, and develop self-sustaining, long term routes to market. This contract relates to the designing and building of these new vertical farming systems.

This is an ambitious and multi-facetted project, and will require ongoing technical support from a suitable design engineer with prior experience of designing and building vertical farming systems to carry out the following:

• Work with project staff and growers to design concepts for new vertical farming systems

• Visit sites and farms to determine details and requirements for new infrastructure / new vertical farming systems

• Work with Tech Tyfu staff to procure the necessary materials for proposed infrastructure / new vertical farming systems

• Work with Tech Tyfu staff to construct and install the new infrastructure / new vertical farming systems

Tenders are invited from suitably qualified design engineers, companies or sole traders with prior experience in designing and building vertical farming units to commercial standard. Due to the clients this contract will work with, the ability to speak fluent Welsh is essential for this tender.

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=113159.

The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.

Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.

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Notice Coding and Classification

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Total quantity or scope of tender

£30,000 (inc VAT)

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

A company or consortium can present an application for the work. If it is a consortium, they will need to allocate a leading company.

Please note that the ability to speak fluent Welsh is essential for this contract.

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

N/a

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Time Limits

4.5

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

4.6

Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

(WA Ref:113159)

Relates to the following project/programme financed by EU Community Funds: European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development

The buyer considers that this contract is suitable for consortia bidding.

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Additional Documentation

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Publication date of this notice