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title: "Framework for Watercourse Maintenance"
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# Framework for Watercourse Maintenance

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/framework-for-watercourse-maintenance-ocds-h6vhtk-065984). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** DfI Transport and Road Asset Management (TRAM): "Framework for Watercourse Maintenance". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [DfI Transport and Road Asset Management (TRAM)](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/dfi-transport-and-road-asset-management-tram-GB-PPON-PYQH-8789-DZPG)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** works
- **Classifications (CPV):** Construction work for water projects, River regulation and flood control works
- **Delivery Location:** UKN, UKN0
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/framework-for-watercourse-maintenance-ocds-h6vhtk-065984#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-065984`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/framework-for-watercourse-maintenance-ocds-h6vhtk-065984#tl-md)

## Description
The Framework for Watercourse Maintenance will encompass five Measured Term Contracts to deliver watercourse maintenance in the following Contract Areas:
A.	WME1 (Armagh);
B.	WME2 (Lisburn and Greater Belfast);
C.	WMW1 (Coleraine);
D.	WMW2 (Omagh); and
E.	WMW3 (Fermanagh).
Within each Contract Area, the works to be undertaken under this Contract may include, but not be limited to, the following Principal Work Activities which are provided by way of example:
A. Maintenance of Watercourses; 
B. Riverbank & Flood Defence maintenance and scrub clearance;
C. Tree felling/removal; and 
D. Provision of labour/plant. 
Further ancillary works may be asked of the successful Supplier such as: 
A. Treatment of aquatic weed/invasive species. 
Within each Contract Area, the successful Supplier will be required to carry out any such works instructed by a Works Order, issued under the provisions of the Contract. Such works will require a standard of works delivery consistent with that defined in the Procurement Documents. Reimbursement to the successful Supplier for such works will be paid generally on the basis of an applicable Schedule of Rates and Prices (SoRP), adjusted in line with permitted price-fluctuation-factor provisions.
For each Contract Area, it is likely that the successful Supplier will be required to work at more than one location at any one time in order to meet the requirements of the programme of work for each Contract Area.
Successful Suppliers will be expected to have sufficiently skilled and available resources necessary to meet the requirements of such a programme and will be required to include in its rates and prices for the inevitable peaks and troughs that will be inherent in any such programme. Such peaks and troughs may result from a variety of circumstances, not all within the control of the Department.  
The financial limits for individual Works Orders under this Contract shall generally be between £1 – £250,000 GBP.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 45240000, 45246000
- **Delivery regions:** UKN
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 30/09/2026 to 30/09/2030

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F015784-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-02-20T15:34:54.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T18:22:01.054Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-065984