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Contract Award Notice

Testing water for eDNA

  • First published: 19 January 2024
  • Last modified: 19 January 2024
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Contents

Summary

OCID:
ocds-kuma6s-127949
Published by:
Freshwater Habitats Trust
Authority ID:
AA82104
Publication date:
19 January 2024
Deadline date:
-
Notice type:
Contract Award Notice
Has documents:
No
Has SPD:
No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:
No

Abstract

Required: supply and analysis of eDNA test kits for up to 80 sites to test for fish and other vertebrates and bivalve molluscs, with a particular emphasis on the detection of freshwater pearl mussel, Margaritifera margaritifera. Please also include in the quotatation (1) the cost of just doing fish and other vertebrates and (2) the cost of just testing for freshwater pearl mussel. For all three options (fish and other vertebrates + bivalves, fish and other vertebrates only, bivalves only) please also show the per site cost to allow adjustments to be made to the final number of sites surveyed on the basis of overall cost. Please provide evidence of experience of previous work detecting freshwater bivalve mussels using eDNA.

Full notice text

CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE – NATIONAL

SERVICES

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address


Freshwater Habitats Trust

Bury Knowle House, North Place, Headington,

Oxford

OX39HY

UK

David Morris

+44 7815103855

dmorris@freshwaterhabitats.org.uk

https://freshwaterhabitats.org.uk

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Testing water for eDNA

2.2

Description of the contract

Required: supply and analysis of eDNA test kits for up to 80 sites to test for fish and other vertebrates and bivalve molluscs, with a particular emphasis on the detection of freshwater pearl mussel, Margaritifera margaritifera. Please also include in the quotatation (1) the cost of just doing fish and other vertebrates and (2) the cost of just testing for freshwater pearl mussel. For all three options (fish and other vertebrates + bivalves, fish and other vertebrates only, bivalves only) please also show the per site cost to allow adjustments to be made to the final number of sites surveyed on the basis of overall cost. Please provide evidence of experience of previous work detecting freshwater bivalve mussels using eDNA.

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

41000000 Collected and purified water
100 UK - All
1000 WALES
1010 West Wales and The Valleys
1011 Isle of Anglesey
1012 Gwynedd
1013 Conwy and Denbighshire
1014 South West Wales (Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion)
1015 Central Valleys (Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf)
1016 Gwent Valleys (Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly)
1017 Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot
1018 Swansea
1020 East Wales
1021 Monmouthshire and Newport
1022 Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
1023 Flintshire and Wrexham
1024 Powys

2.4

Estimated Total Value

37000 GBP

3 Procedure

3.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

4 Award of Contract

4.1

Successful Bidders

4.1.1

Name and Address of successful supplier, contractor or service provider





Naturemetrics

1 Occam Court, Surrey Research Park,

Guildford

GU27HJ

UK

Mike Morris



5 Other Information

5.1

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

N/a

5.2

Date of Contract Award

 30-01-2023

5.3

Number of tenders received

1

5.4

Other Information

(WA Ref:137044)

Relates to the following project/programme financed by EU Community Funds: RDP 2014 -2020 Wales Rural Development Programme

5.5

Additional Documentation

N/a

5.6

Publication date of this notice:

 19-01-2024

Coding

Commodity categories

ID Title Parent category
41000000 Collected and purified water Environment and Sanitation

Delivery locations

ID Description
1017 Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot
1022 Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
1015 Central Valleys (Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf)
1013 Conwy and Denbighshire
1020 East Wales
1023 Flintshire and Wrexham
1016 Gwent Valleys (Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly)
1012 Gwynedd
1011 Isle of Anglesey
1021 Monmouthshire and Newport
1024 Powys
1014 South West Wales (Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion)
1018 Swansea
100 UK - All
1000 WALES
1010 West Wales and The Valleys

Alert region restrictions

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ID Description
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Document family

Notice details
Publication date:
09 January 2023
Deadline date:
23 January 2023 00:00
Notice type:
Contract Notice
Authority name:
Freshwater Habitats Trust
Publication date:
19 January 2024
Notice type:
Contract Award Notice
Authority name:
Freshwater Habitats Trust

About the buyer

Main contact:
dmorris@freshwaterhabitats.org.uk
Admin contact:
N/a
Technical contact:
N/a
Other contact:
N/a

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