Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Dead Wild Bird Avian Influenza Surveillance
Authority: Defra Network eTendering Portal
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAPHA requires the Contractor to carry out the provision of Dead Wild Bird AI
Surveillance and other Wildlife health activities across a number of Specified
Reserves in Great Britain on behalf of the Authority in accordance with sections 2
and 3.
Service A - Dead Wild Bird AI Surveillance
To assess the occurrence of AI viruses in Dead Wild Waterbirds on mainland Great
Britain by Surveillance at the Specified Reserves.
Service B - GB Wildlife Disease Surveillance Partnership (GB WDSP)
To contribute to British Wildlife Health Surveillance as a member of the GB Wildlife
Disease Surveillance Partnership.
Service C - Ad hoc Advice
To contribute ornithological and Wildlife Health advice and fieldwork on an ad hoc
basis within the mainland GB Specified Reserves and any third-party sites in close
proximity where requested. Any work commissioned on third party sites would be
subject to a Change Control Note for an additional payment, to be agreed with the
Authority before any work is undertaken.
CPV: Environmental monitoring other than for construction
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 12 Apr 2022, 11:17 BST
- Last source update
- 12 Apr 2022, 11:17 BST
- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-009701- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-032c82Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
No tenders or no suitable tenders/requests to participate in response to restricted procedure; The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons
- Published justification
The Contractor is in a unique position in having reserve wardens who have historically collected waterbird carcasses as part of the organisation's long-term wildlife health monitoring programmes. The contractor manages nine important wetland reserves in the UK with eight of these based in England and Wales and one in Northern Ireland. All samples for this project will be collected from the England and Wales Locations.
A fundamental requirement of the contract is to sample wild bird carcases across mainland GB where there are known large bird gatherings (i.e. at wildlife reserves), APHA has already explored other organisations that have a similar portfolio of reserves and established that WWT is uniquely placed as they have (a) the portfolio of reserves with an appropriate GB coverage, (b) the staff with trained expertise to swab and sample the carcases at each site, and (c) the scientific expertise to provide APHA with specialist advice that they do not possess in house.
The WWT sites have a large range of wild bird species coming through their sites which provide a good insight into AIV prevalence as wild populations migrate in and out of Great Britain. Continuing to carry out surveillance across the same sites which are currently monitored via the outgoing contract will also provide the benefit of consistency and comparison of trends with previous years
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Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust New Grounds Slimbridge Gloucestershire GL2 7BTSME | £196,226 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 009701-2022-1 · Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust New Grounds Slimbridge Gloucestershire GL2 7BTSME
- Signed
- 1 Apr 2022
- Value
- £196,226
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- DefraReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the noticeOfficial documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.