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

Seagrass Restoration in North Wales

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Description of the goods or services required

BACKGROUND

For the last 2 years WWF UK has been working in partnership with Swansea University and Project Seagrass to demonstrate the feasibility and create a blueprint for large scale seagrass restoration in the UK to support ocean recovery and restore vital ecosystem services provided by healthy seagrass meadows, services that have diminished with the loss of up to 92% of the UK's seagrass over the last century. Our aim is to provide a blueprint for both the physical restoration process, as well as community and stakeholder involvement in the design, implementation and management of seagrass restoration projects. In turn, we believe this will help inform approaches of other coastal habitat restoration projects.

The intention of this contract is to engage a local contractor based in North Wales to work with the project partners to develop a detailed Project Activity plan, meeting NLHF funding specifications, mapping the restoration and engagement work required to deliver 10ha of restored seagrass by 2025.

CONTRACTING PROCESS

Please provide a detailed written quote for the work described above by 15th November 2021. Please include information on your experience to deliver the work. Quotes must not be more than £12,000.

The quote should include any expected travel costs. The contractor will be expected to provide all their own office and communication facilities.

Please email your response to rzanre@wwf.org.uk & sclement@wwf.org.uk

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Notice Coding and Classification

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Total quantity or scope of tender

The contractor will be expected to work closely with WWF, Swansea University, Project Seagrass, PLAS SAC and NWWT to incorporate work to date on stakeholder mapping and initial engagement into project planning and develop a coherent agreed plan for the Project.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES:

The Contractor will work with the project partners to write a project engagement activity plan, the work will include the following three key tasks:

Task 1: Assessment of current situation

Including: assessment of skills and resources of project partners to deliver the plan; review of existing stakeholder and community mapping work and information already available on user groups’ interaction with local coastal habitats and seagrass; identify groups having minimal engagement with seagrass and the barriers to this.

Task 2: Determine Project engagement activities

Identify project audiences; the activities needed to reach these audiences based on the established project outcomes; resources required and costs; monitoring criteria; and long term sustainability considerations of project.

Task 3: Action planning

Develop and write a detailed project engagement action plan. This should include: planned activities in detail; target audiences; project outcomes and measurements; resources needed; costs; timetable; and monitoring plan.

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

Welsh language proficiency would be beneficial.

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

WWFCF021/0073

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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

5.1

Additional Information

CONTRACTING PROCESS

Please provide a detailed written quote for the work described above by 15th November 2021. Please include information on your experience to deliver the work. Quotes must not be more than £12,000.

The quote should include any expected travel costs. The contractor will be expected to provide all their own office and communication facilities.

Please email your response to rzanre@wwf.org.uk & sclement@wwf.org.uk

(WA Ref:115407)

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