Scope
Reference
Morridge Hill Country Habitat Restoration Tender
Description
Morridge Hill Country (MHC) is one of DEFRA's Landscape Recovery Projects and is located within the South West Peak of the Peak District National Park. It is an ambitious landscape scale project with nature recovery at its heart.
Whilst the area is already relatively biodiverse compared to other parts of the country, there are significant opportunities here to restore ecosystems and increase resilience to change, and in doing so providing many additional benefits.
As part of the 20-30 year vision for MHC we are exploring opportunities to:
• diversify currently species-poor and depleted vegetation, including grasslands, mires, heaths etc.
• restore a more natural hydrologically functioning landscape.
We are therefore seeking updated vegetation survey of the extent and condition of the in-bye land across c.865ha together with Hydrological study and associated field survey. These surveys will inform recommendations for habitat restoration across the landscape (Opportunity mapping reports).
Scope and requirements for each site:
1) Updated survey of the extent and condition of vegetation types currently present across the area
• Across the sites, map the current extent and type of the vegetation together with supporting habitats such as open water.
• Boundaries of the main vegetation types in each field should be recorded and registered with the appropriate NVC code.
2) Hydrological study and field survey :
A: Study
• Review of existing surveys;
• Review of the hydrogeology/soils;
• Review existing data pertaining to drainage;
• Sub surface drains;
• Wetness index.
B: Field survey
• Undertake field survey of all hydrological features identified through the desk review process.;
• Each feature should be given a unique mapped identifying code;
• Individual parameters for each feature should be recorded as shown in the example spreadsheet provided at Appendix B or as otherwise agreed;
• Undertake soil profile augers/probes where considered necessary;
• Undertake soil moisture and compaction measurements (e.g soil penetrometer) where considered necessary;
• Undertake any pH and conductivity measurements where considered necessary.
3) Opportunity mapping document:
Brief opportunity mapping report for each site. This should pull together all the above information to identify opportunities for habitat restoration to include:
• Likely outcomes on Proposed Hydrological regime and how this will differ from the current situation (including completed spreadsheet Appendix B*);
• Specifications for suggested works and methodology;
• Likely changes to vegetation, species composition and condition with reference to NVC types where appropriate;
• Details and specification for all methods proposed for introduction of plant species;
• Identify any additional benefits to the works;
• Steps in the process to such a recovery;
• Likely impacts on the site and surrounding land;
• Consider partial restoration scenarios and likely outcomes;
• Schedule of works and Costings to achieve the above.
Maps:
• Map to show wetland conceptualisation plan showing likely influence of works and locations and type of hydrological interventions;
• Before and after maps to show water supplies and drainage networks-includes routes of water into and out of areas;
• Map to show current habitat types (with NVC notation);
• Map to show potential habitat change as result of proposals;
• Map to show where areas could be planted or seeded with 'missing' plant components relative to the target vegetation type including higher plants and sphagnums;
• Constraints map
• Map showing any infrastructure required to enable landscape management.
Timescales
This is a time sensitive project, we are looking for this work to be completed as soon as possible. All surveys must be completed by the 30th September 2025.
Draft reports must be provided by 15th October 2025
Final report must be provided by 30th October 2025
All other outputs (data) associated with the Brief must be provided by 30th October 2025 (the Target Completion Date).
Please see the Invitation to Tender Brief and associated documents for further details
Total value (estimated)
- £50,000 excluding VAT
- £60,000 including VAT
Below the relevant threshold
Contract dates (estimated)
- 7 June 2025 to 30 October 2025
- 4 months, 24 days
Main procurement category
Services
CPV classifications
- 90700000 - Environmental services
Contract locations
- UKD - North West (England)
- UKE - Yorkshire and the Humber
- UKF - East Midlands (England)
- UKG - West Midlands (England)
Participation
Particular suitability
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
Submission
Enquiry deadline
21 May 2025, 11:59pm
Tender submission deadline
30 May 2025, 5:00pm
Submission address and any special instructions
Submission
Tenders must be submitted by e mail to Tenders@peakdistrict.gov.uk
By 17.00pm 30th May 2025
The following, and only the following, must be used in the subject line:
REF: 'Morridge Hill Country' Habitat Restoration Tender
Please see link to the Tender Notice at
https://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/looking-after/about-us/open-government/tenders
Tenders may be submitted electronically
Yes
Award criteria
The successful tenderer will be selected based on an evaluation using the criteria set out below.
1. Price (40% of the total score value);
2. Quality criteria (60% of the total score value):
• Experience and Capability to undertake the works
• Proposed methodology
Weighting calcualtion:
Price (40%)
40 x (Lowest Tender Price)/(Tenderer X's Price)
Quality criteria 1 -
Experience and Capability to undertake the works (30%)
6 x score (see methodology at Appendix 6 of the Invitation to Tender)
Quality criteria 2 -
Proposed methodology (30%)
6 x score (see methodology at Appendix 6 of the Invitation to Tender)
Supporting information
Please provide brief supporting documentation/text regarding:
Responses to the Quality criteria above should be provided with the Form of Tender. Responses should address the following:
• Explain in detail how you will undertake this work and any equipment you will use. Please provide information to demonstrate knowledge, experience and understanding of the Brief (Section 1). You should set out how you will record the necessary information and any recording templates that you will use. You should set out the most effective and efficient approach of collecting and providing this data.
• Supporting information to demonstrate successful experience of similar work, including examples of previous work.
Procedure
Procedure type
Below threshold - open competition
Documents
Associated tender documents
https://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/looking-after/about-us/open-government/tenders
Tender notice including associated documents
Contracting authority
Peak District National Park Authority
- Public Procurement Organisation Number: PRMG-9537-GCRD
Aldern House, Baslow Road
Bakewell
DE45 1AE
United Kingdom
Region: UKF13 - South and West Derbyshire
Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government