Expired contract

Aquatic plant surveys and assessment of ditches and drains at the Ouse Washes Protected Site, Cambridgeshire

Details

Buyer: Natural England
Supplier(s): Adler and Allan Limited
Duration: 7 months
Topic: Surveying services
Published: 24 July 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

This survey is being sought by the West Anglia Area Team for monitoring of the aquatic plant component of the vascular plant assemblage (VPA) SSSI feature and the wetland plant assemblage Ramsar feature at the Ouse Washes SSSI in Cambridgeshire. This will require Common Standards Monitoring surveys of the ditches across the washland and specific aquatic vascular plant species in the Counter and Delph drains in order to follow the SSSI Monitoring Specification for the Ouse Washes SSSI. The surveys must be carried out over summer 2025 with the final report submitted at the end of February 2026. Extensive experience in identification of aquatic vascular plants is required for this project over this 2500ha site. ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published24 July 2025
Current notice
Completed: Award date24 July 2025
Completed: Contract expiry date27 February 2026

About the buyer

Natural England is a non-departmental public body, and buys through its own eSourcing portal for organisations wanting to work with it. Registration on the portal is free, and suppliers can browse live opportunities without commitment. Contract awards and the documents behind them are published separately on Contracts Finder, the government's central register for public sector contract opportunities and awards. Procurement queries can be directed to Natural England's own procurement support team, or to Defra's central procurement contact, depending on the enquiry. Successful bidders must supply a Dun & Bradstreet DUNS number before a contract is confirmed.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of Natural England's contract awards have been in research and development, waste, cleaning and environmental services and architectural and engineering services.

Relevant CPV codes

71355000 · Surveying services

Decision makers

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