Tender Results of Natural England

Scrub Control of Birch & Pine on Fenns Moss-The clearance of birch and pine over 23.13ha of Fenn's Moss. All scrub within the specified height range are to be cut using power tools (no machinery) and brash stacking is only required in section 26. A site visit is highly recommended. The tender deadline is 10am on Monday, 16th January 2023 and must be emailed to Eleana.Will...

Private Investor Research - Urban Greening Accreditation-Natural England requires the services of a contractor to undertake research to grow our understanding of private sector interests in driving forward the greening of urban areas for all the benefits to health and wellbeing, nature and climate. We are exploring a potential new national urban greening accreditation, to create Nature Towns and Nature Cities across England. In summary this work will involve; 1.Identifying the drivers for private sector investors in urban greening (either new o...

Medway Estuary MCZ Intertidal Survey-Responses by email only: Medway Estuary Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) is an inshore site on the Kent coast which was designated in 2013 under the Marine and Coastal Access Act (2009). The MCZ completes the protection of habitats within the Medway Estuary, with its designated broad-scale habitat features, including rare habitats like peat and clay exposures. Natural England seeks to complete evidence gaps in previous Phase 1 and 2 surveys of the intertidal habitats in Medway Estuary MCZ. The sur...

Stock Fence Replacement at Cavenham Heath NNR-Stock-fencing on Cavenham Heath National Nature Reserve. To take down and remove old stock fence. To refence along same line. Approx 2176m

Revision of Natural Englands Historic Parkland Handbook-An 'Historic Parkland Handbook', developed in-house, underpins our parkland work and advice - though remains in draft. It was based on the Natural England commissioned Defra-funded project undertaken by Cookson & Tickner 2013. Associated with this handbook is the 'Historic Parkland Prioritisation Assessment' and a template brief for commissioning Parkland Management Plans. These all require revision to reflect changing priorities, e.g. climate change, tree disease, etc.

Chat Moss Drain Diversion Survey and Report-A survey and a report on the findings, are required for the planned diversion of an existing drainage ditch to enable better hydrological function of linked existing habitat and restoration of former agricultural land.

Evaluation of Natural Englands pilot project: Building species into Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRSs)-Evaluation of the Local Nature Recovery Strategies species pilot project. The key deliverables for this contract are 4-5 online workshops to gather feedback from stakeholders and an evaluation report bringing together the feedback, lessons learned and recommendations. Full details in the RFQ.

Prototyping a centralised system to capture data on projects contributing to the nature recovery network including detailed spatial data on wildlife-rich habitats being created/restored-1) Develop specific recommendations for a centralised system to capture spatial data on projects contributing to the nature recovery network, including detailed spatial data on wildlife-rich habitats being created/restored 2) Construct a working prototype of this system (or parts thereof)

WasteDataFlow Administration and Management-This Project is to manage the collection and validation of data through an existing online survey system known as WDF and host the web and database servers for the online system. The purpose of WDF is to provide good quality timely data on Local Authority Waste Data Collection (formerly known as municipal waste). The requirement incudes the need to collect information on fly-tipping and is here to provide a service while a 'Gov-Tech' Project is undertaken to determine how we collect in...

Scrub Clearance Humberhead Peatlands NNR-Cut down (to be as level with ground as is possible on bunds) any scrub growing on bunds and up to 3 meters off each side. -Stump treat living specimens with Glyphosate that contains dye. -Drag arisings to a cell that is either wet or is obviously going to become wet through winter to avoid arisings becoming a fire source later. Cut up larger silver birch specimens first.