Tender

Severn Estuary Recreation Mitigation Strategy

  • Monmouthshire County Council

UK4: Tender notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-007789

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-04e93d

Published 4 March 2025, 11:10am

Scope

Description

Monmouthshire County Council invites quotations from suitably qualified and experienced consultants to produce a Severn Estuary Recreation Mitigation Strategy to support the Replacement Local Development Plan following the Habitats Regulations Assessment for the plan.

Total value (estimated)

  • £20,000 excluding VAT
  • £24,000 including VAT

Below the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 24 March 2025 to 29 August 2025
  • 5 months, 6 days

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 90712300 - Marine conservation strategy planning
  • 90712400 - Natural resources management or conservation strategy planning services

Contract locations

  • UK - United Kingdom

Participation

Conditions of participation

REQUIREMENTS

The key requirements of the brief are as follows:

i. Early and ongoing consultation with relevant stakeholders

ii. Review of evidence from 2020 visitor surveys, review of NRW data relating to functionally linked land, where information is available. Suitable review of literature from similar, representative mitigation schemes.

iii. To review scope for delivery of SANG on sites proposed for allocation within 12.6km of the Severn Estuary and a description of what these should aim to achieve including, where appropriate minimum requirements.

iv. Development of Strategic Access Management and Monitoring (SAMM) to include costed mitigation proposals towards the management of adverse recreational effects on the Severn Estuary European Marine Site and relevant functionally linked land.

v. A "per dwelling" contribution requirement for relevant development sites within the Core Catchment area of 12.6km (see tables 5 and 6.in the HRA).

vi. To make recommendation(s) on an organisational model to operate and implement mitigation projects and review their success or otherwise.

Particular suitability

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)

Submission

Enquiry deadline

12 March 2025, 5:00pm

Tender submission deadline

17 March 2025, 5:00pm

Submission address and any special instructions

Submission via sell2wales only https://sell2wales.gov.wales/.

Tenders may be submitted electronically

Yes

Award criteria

This table contains award criteria for this lot
Name Description Type Weighting
Quality Criterion

QUALITY 70% Quality will be measured against the following criteria which have been weighted according to relative importance as follows:

Q1 Please demonstrate how your proposed methodological approach...

 Quality 70.00%
Cost Criterion

Consultation and data gathering

Production of a mitigation strategy report

 Price 30.00%

Procedure

Procedure type

Below threshold - open competition

Documents

Associated tender documents

https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Assets/NoticeBuilder_FileDownload.aspx?id=327901

Tender Brief

https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Assets/NoticeBuilder_FileDownload.aspx?id=327906

HRA-of-the-Monmouthshire-RLDP-Deposit-Plan

https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Assets/NoticeBuilder_FileDownload.aspx?id=327913

Deposit RLDP

https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Assets/NoticeBuilder_FileDownload.aspx?id=327922

RLDP Proposals map

https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Assets/NoticeBuilder_FileDownload.aspx?id=327923

Wales Coast Path HRA

Contracting authority

Monmouthshire County Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PMQT-2889-YGXR

County Hall

Usk

NP15 1GA

United Kingdom

Email: katestinchcombe@monmouthshire.gov.uk

Website: http://www.monmouthshire.gov.uk

Region: UKL21 - Monmouthshire and Newport

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government

Devolved regulations that apply: Wales