CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

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Authority Name and Address

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Address from which documentation may be obtained

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Completed documents must be returned to:

2 Contract Details

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Title

RSPB Lake Vyrnwy Peatland Restoration 2025-26: Pen Bwlan

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Description of the goods or services required

RSPB Cymru is looking to appoint a contractor to deliver works on the Lake Vyrnwy estate as part of an extensive ongoing programme of peatland restoration. The contractor will be working to raise water tables across blanket bog by blocking drainage ditches and gullies with peat or coir dams and reprofiling or tamping the extensive peat hags. Pen Bwlan is 72ha of more fringe peatland, bordering the large hefts of blanket peatland with acid grassland and dry heath elements. Extensive drainage, cutting and historic overgrazing on Pen Bwlan has resulted in the site being unlike any other on the Lake Vyrnwy estate; with peat hags rife and significant peat area lost, leaving only “islands” of peat remaining.

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This summer, the RSPB will release a further 3 separate invitations to tender relating to peatland restoration or surveying, with work completion some time between 01/10/2025 and 15/03/2026. Estimated person days provided WILL change when the invitation to tenders are released and are to be used as guide. Further information will be provided when the invitation to tenders are released. These are as follows:

Eidda Fawr, Migneint - Gully and ditch blocking using peat dams, hag reprofiling, some possible modification of previous work. Estimated person days: 140.

Helfa Isaf, Ffridd Cedig and Mynydd Newydd, Lake Vyrnwy - Gully and ditch blocking using peat dams, hag reprofiling, modification of previous work, possible install of coir logs. Estimated person days: 68.

Cwm Pennant Peat Depth Survey, Llangynog - 706ha site requiring a peat depth survey on a 50x50m grid. Number of peat depth points: 2,266Estimated person days: 25 person days.

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=144212.

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.

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=153438.

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

Summary of work by restoration treatment: Gully Blocking (Peat Dams): 165m.

Ditch Blocking (Peat Dams): 10m.

Hag Reprofiling (~>60cm height): 900m.

Hag Tamping (~<60cm height): 1820m.

Coir log installation: 100, 1m logs

3 Conditions for Participation

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Minimum standards and qualification required

4 Administrative Information

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Type of Procedure

Single stage

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Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

N/a

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Time Limits

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

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Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

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Additional Information

Bidders are strongly recommended to conduct a site visit to better inform their quote. There will be an opportunity for interested parties to visit the project site w/c 04 August 2025.

(WA Ref:153438)

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Additional Documentation

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Publication date of this notice