Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-04-26
Buyer: Natural Resources Wales
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 45246000: River regulation and flood control works | 45246410
Submission deadline: 2018-05-30
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NRW is seeking to award a framework for the maintenance, repair, improvement or betterments to existing structures, on land near or in marine or river environments, as identified by NRW. Maintenance of these assets is essential in ensuring NRW fulfils its statutory objectives to protect the public, enhance the natural environment, whilst complying with Health, Safety and Environmental legislation.
Work will consist of hard engineering services for NRW related assets; this may be a structural, land or water requirement but predominately it will be on existing flood defence structures. The Contractors will be required to assess, plan and deliver minor hard engineering services as described in the scope of works by the Project Manager.
Work will consist of soft engineering services for NRW related assets; this may be a structural, land or water requirement but predominately it will be on existing flood defence structures. The Contractors will be required to assess, plan and deliver minor soft engineering works / maintenance services as described in the scope of works by the Project Manager. Works may include flood defence repair, bank revetment repair, bank stabilisation, river restoration services, weir improvements, penstock, fish pass and trash screen related services and culvert maintenance.
NRW is seeking to award a framework for the River Channel Maintenance to be carried out within Main River Watercourses throughout Wales. Works will include, In-channel vegetation clearance and recurring maintenance work that relates to landscaping and in-river obstruction management. Activities include such work as grass / weed cutting clearance within the watercourse either by mechanical or manual means, invasive species control, de-silting of the channel and blockage removal either carried out routinely or reactive.
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Under the terms of this contract the successful supplier(s) will be required to deliver Community Benefits in support of the authority’s economic and social objectives. Accordingly, contract performance conditions may relate in particular to social and environmental considerations. The Community Benefits included in this contract are:
The delivery of Community Benefits through procurement activity is a stated aim of the Welsh Government as highlighted in the Wales’s Procurement Policy Statement 2015. Community Benefits or ‘social requirements’ fall into 6 main categories and are designed to ensure that wider social and economic issues are taken into account when tendering contracts, these are shown below:
Bidders must list any Community Benefits they may be able to provide if they were to be successful in gaining a place on this framework. This is a non-core element of the tender, and therefore will not be scored.