Supply of Timber for Groyne Replacement Programme 2017/18

Tender description

Important information - PLEASE READ The deadline for submitting your response to this contract opportunity is 31 March 2017 at 14:00. Suppliers interested in this opportunity should click on the ‘Register interest in this opportunity’ button in the top right of the screen. If you are not already logged into the system, you will be required to log in before you can ‘Register interest in this opportunity’. New users to the system must register first to obtain a user name and password before returning to this opportunity. Once suppliers have registered their interest they can access the full tender documentation automatically from ‘My Activities’ on the home page. There is a guide for using the Supplying the South West system within the attachments section of this advert. Please follow the guide from page 34 on ‘How to Access Tender Documents through Supplying the South West’ within the attachments section to the right which provides a step-by-step screen shot of how to access the tender documents. The documents shown within the attachments section of the advert are watermarked as Read-Only. These Read-Only documents should only be used to confirm if this is an opportunity that you wish to bid for and they are not a full list of all of the tender documents available. Please do not complete these tender documents as they are Read-Only. To access the full tender documents, please click on the ‘Register interest in this opportunity’ button in the top right. As soon as you have done this, you will be able to access the full tender documents by following the guide ‘How to Access Tender Documents through Supplying the South West’. Bournemouth Borough Council requires the Supply of Timber to be used in the Council’s Groyne Replacement Programme in the winter of 2017/18. Timber groynes on Bournemouth’s beach are subject to high loading forces, abrasion and degradation by marine borers, specifically gribble. There are limited timbers that are suitable for use in the groyne structure. All timber will be supplied compliant with the UK Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) publication ‘Timber Procurement Policy (TPP), Timber Procurement Advice Note, Sixth Edition, March 2016’. All Timber to be supplied must come from a TPP-compliant source. The Council has split the requirements for the 2017/18 supply of timber into nine lots. The timber species required and timber delivery deadline by Lot are identified in the tender documents. Please express an interest in the tender documents to view the full requirements for the supply. A notice was sent to the European Journal regarding this opportunity on 24 February 2017. Keywords: Timber, Groyne, Bournemouth