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Passive Acoustic Monitoring Equipment

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Official notice
Published value
£341,000
Submission deadline 26 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Forestry Commission: "Passive Acoustic Monitoring Equipment". Published status: complete. Published value: £341,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 26 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityForestry CommissionScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
Closed
26 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£341,000
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Published-to-award variance
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Competition Density
6.2Bids / Report
2.6% of reports have one bid
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Payment Terms
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Coverage: 142 active published awards; 39 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityForestry Commission
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published15 Apr 2026, 14:12 BST
Last source update15 Apr 2026, 14:12 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationNot published
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-060431
What is being bought
Forestry England have completed a tender for a supply contract for four hundred (400) Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) units with Full Spectrum Ultrasonic and Audible monitoring capability. This is to provide biodiversity data as part of the monitoring programme across our suite of Wild Area project sites. This will inform progress towards our nature recovery objectives and our management planning. The wild area project sites are large and remote with difficult terrain. So the PAM units to be autonomous, accurate, robust and low maintenance, with a high power source and data storage capacity to facilitate long recording periods with minimum maintenance and data downloading requirements during the spring and summer monitoring periods.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    15 Apr 2026, 14:12 BST
  2. tender value changed
    13 Mar 2026, 09:21 GMT
  3. Status changed to complete
    13 Mar 2026, 09:21 GMT
  4. Official notice release published
    13 Mar 2026, 09:21 GMT
  5. Submission deadline changed to published date
    13 Mar 2026, 09:21 GMT
  6. Published value updated to £341,000
    26 Jan 2026, 15:53 GMT
  7. Status changed to active
    26 Jan 2026, 15:53 GMT
  8. Official notice release published
    26 Jan 2026, 15:53 GMT
  9. Submission deadline changed to 26 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT
    26 Jan 2026, 15:53 GMT
  10. Published value updated to £311,000
    13 Jan 2026, 09:16 GMT
  11. Status changed to planning
    13 Jan 2026, 09:16 GMT
  12. Official notice release published
    13 Jan 2026, 09:16 GMT
  13. Buyer information updated
    13 Jan 2026, 09:16 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    complete
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    15 Apr 2026, 14:12 BST
  2. Submission deadline
    26 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT
  3. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  4. Contract active
    Signed 26 Mar 2026, 00:00 GMT · £297,279
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Wildlife Acoustics Inc.
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£297,279 · signed 26 Mar 2026, 00:00 GMT · active
Contract period: 26 Mar 2026, 00:00 GMT — 30 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Forestry Commission

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PLRM-7846-HGLG
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  • Forestry England (for and on behalf of the Forestry Commission)
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PLRM-7846-HGLG
    620 Bristol Business Park, Bristol, UKK12, BS16 1EJ, GB
    commercial.services@forestryengland.uk
    0300 067 4000

  • Wildlife Acoustics Inc.
    supplier

    GB-PPON: PHVQ-5667-VVMG
    3 Mill and Main Place Suite 110, Maynard, US, 01754-2657, US
    mona@wildlifeacoustics.com
Documents (1)
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