Contract

UXO Surveying and Risk Mitigation Services

  • Natural Resources Wales
  • Snowdonia National Park Authority/Awdurdod Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri
  • Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority
  • Brecon Beacons National Park Authority

F03: Contract award notice

Notice identifier: 2024/S 000-028031

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0453f4

Published 3 September 2024, 9:03am



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

Natural Resources Wales

Nrw Office

Buckley

CH7 3AJ

Contact

Cathryn Mackinlay

Email

cathryn.mackinlay@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk

Telephone

+44 7929853740

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKL - Wales

Internet address(es)

Main address

http://naturalresourceswales.gov.uk

Buyer's address

https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0110

one.1) Name and addresses

Snowdonia National Park Authority/Awdurdod Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri

Penrhyndeudraeth

Gwynedd

LL48 6LF

Email

parc@eryri.llyw.cymru

Telephone

+44 1766770274

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKL12 - Gwynedd

Internet address(es)

Main address

http://www.eryri.llyw.cymru

Buyer's address

https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA22451

one.1) Name and addresses

Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority

Llanion Park

Pembroke Dock

SA72 6DY

Email

info@pembrokeshirecoast.org.uk

Telephone

+44 1646624800

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKL14 - South West Wales

Internet address(es)

Main address

http://www.pembrokeshirecoast.org.uk

Buyer's address

https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA22450

one.1) Name and addresses

Brecon Beacons National Park Authority

Plas y Ffynnon, Cambrian Way

Brecon

LD3 7HP

Email

enquiries@beacons-npa.gov.uk

Telephone

+44 1874624437

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKL24 - Powys

Internet address(es)

Main address

http://www.beacons-npa.gov.uk/

Buyer's address

https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0501

one.2) Information about joint procurement

The contract involves joint procurement

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

one.5) Main activity

Environment


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

UXO Surveying and Risk Mitigation Services

Reference number

106132

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 71510000 - Site-investigation services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

Establishment of a framework for UXO surveying and risk mitigation services for NRW and its named partners.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)

Value excluding VAT: £500,000

two.2) Description

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

  • 71313410 - Risk or hazard assessment for construction
  • 71351500 - Ground investigation services
  • 71351720 - Geophysical surveys of archaeological sites

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKL - Wales
Main site or place of performance

All of Wales

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

The purpose of the requirement is to establish an efficient procurement route for all of NRW business as usual (BAU) work, strategic projects and NRW's partners named within this notice for UXO surveying and risk mitigation services. NRW is lead beneficiary or project partner in multiple habitat conservation and restoration projects several of which contain areas of UXO risk.

Services may be required on multiple large scale conservation projects across Wales. Sites could be a range of terrains including but not limited to bogs, sand dunes, marshland and will typically be sensitive sites including National Nature reserves, (NNRs), Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) or Special Areas of Conservation (SACs).

Typically conservation work will include ground penetration work including erecting fence lines for managed grazing, installation of dip wells and groundworks.

Many sites will be on 3rd party owned land and may have challenging access and other site constraints.

A range of techniques will have to be employed in surveying including but not limited to drones, hand held magnetometers, peat probes.

Due to the nature of UXO surveying it is difficult for NRW to estimate the value of this framework. For the purposes of establishing this framework we estimate spend in a range of 100,000GBP and 500,000GBP. NRW does not guarantee any level of expenditure under this framework.

Participating Organisations are:

Natural Resources Wales

Brecon Beacons National Park Authority

Snowdonia National Park Authority

Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority

two.2.5) Award criteria

Quality criterion - Name: Quality / Weighting: 40

Price - Weighting: 60

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

four.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system

The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number: 2024/S 000-012940


Section five. Award of contract

Contract No

106132

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

22 July 2024

five.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 6

Number of tenders received from SMEs: 5

Number of tenders received from tenderers from other EU Member States: 0

Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 6

Number of tenders received by electronic means: 6

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: Yes

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

RPS Energy

Riverside Court, Beaufort Park

Chepstow

NP165UH

Telephone

+44 1291621821

Fax

+44 1291627827

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UKL21 - Monmouthshire and Newport
The contractor is an SME

No

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

IGNE UXO LIMITED

Unit 2 Phocle Park Business Village, Upton Bishop

Ross On Wye

HR97XU

Telephone

+44 7738890817

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME

Yes

five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)

Total value of the contract/lot: £500,000


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

(WA Ref:144123)

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

High Court

Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand

London

WC2A 2LL

Telephone

+44 2079477501

Country

United Kingdom