Closed tender

Invitation to Tender for the Undertaking of a Marine Litter Survey 2025

Details

Topic
Research services
Published
5 November 2024
Submission
13 December 2024

Tender description

The Department is required to undertake a Marine Litter Survey for 2025. This is required to be done as part of Ireland’s commitments under the OSPAR Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), the aim of which for EU marine waters to achieve ‘good environmental status’ (GES) by 2020. One of the MSFD’s qualitative descriptors for GES is that ‘properties and quantities of litter do not cause harm, to the coastal and marine environment’. Litter on five beaches is to be monitored on four occasions during 2025. The data from these surveys will form part of Ireland’s contribution to the OSPAR beach litter monitoring programme. The successful tenderer shall undertake beach litter monitoring surveys at the five designated beaches in accordance with OSPAR beach litter monitoring protocols.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published5 November 2024
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date13 December 2024

About the buyer

The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage sets national policy on housing, planning and heritage, and buys through its own procurement team. Frameworks, live contracts and guidance come from the Office of Government Procurement. Procurement rules follow the National Public Procurement Policy Framework and EU directives. Awarded public contracts are published under the Freedom of Information Publication Scheme.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage's contract awards have been in waste, cleaning and environmental services, architectural and engineering services and agricultural and horticultural services.

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