Closed tender

DAERA - Forest Service - GROUND PREPARATION ON FOREST SERVICE LANDS

Details

Buyer: Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
Value: £1,700,000
Topic: Forestry services
Published: 22 December 2025
Submission: 4 February 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

DAERA Forest Service established a Framework Agreement to appoint a list of Suppliers to carry out ground preparation across Forest Service sites in Northern Ireland. The services required are divided into 3 work areas as follows: • Ground Preparation of Restock and Afforestation sites • Mulching • Ground Preparation of Peatland or other sites. Within each, there are 4 county groupings: (a) Down / Armagh; (b)Antrim / Derry; (c) East Fermanagh / Tyrone; and (d) West Fermanagh. Therefore, there are 12 Lots in total for the Framework Agreement.

Timeline

Completed: Tender published22 December 2025
Current notice
Completed: Submission date4 February 2026

About the buyer

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs is one of Northern Ireland's nine executive departments, and buys as a central government body. Procurement spans IT, professional services, research, facilities management and construction.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs's contract awards have been in agricultural and horticultural services, agricultural machinery and software and information systems.

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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