Technical inspection services

Tender description

The Forestry Commission intend to award a framework principally for the provision of a Plant Health Inspection Service for controlled wood, wood products and bark entering Great Britain from abroad in order to protect Britain’s woodlands and trees from harmful pests and diseases. Some survey work is also included in the framework. This lot is for the plant health inspection service of controlled wood products into the principle ports of Inverness, Aberdeen and Montrose. The contract area includes the following local government districts- Highland, Moray, Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen City, Angus. This lot is for the plant health inspection service of controlled wood products into the principle ports Grangemouth and Greenock. The contract area includes the following local government districts- Perth and Kinross, Fife, Stirling, Dundee City, Clackmannanshire, West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow City, Falkirk, South Lanarkshire, West Lothian, City of Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian, Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire and South Ayrshire, North Ayrshire and Inverclyde. This lot does not include any port inspection work. The lot is principally for placing, preparing and maintaining Protected Zone plot traps. The contract area includes the following local government districts- Highland (and excludes any work associated with Phytophthora ramorum Licensing and Audit inspections in the Highland area), Moray, Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen City, Angus, Perth and Kinross, Stirling, Fife, Dundee City, Clackmannanshire, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow City, Falkirk, West Lothian, City of Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian, East Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, South Ayrshire, Scottish Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Inverclyde and North Ayrshire. The lot area includes the following local government districts — Argyll and Bute, North and South Ayrshire, Inverclyde, West Dunbartonshire, Stirling, Perth and Kinross, Highland. The only areas where Phytophthora ramorum Licensing and Audit inspections will be carried out are Argyll and Bute and Highland. This lot is for the plant health inspection service of controlled wood products into the principle ports around the Dee river estuary and Liverpool. The contract area includes the following unitary authority areas — Carlisle, Allerdale, Copeland, Eden, South Lakeland, Lancaster, Craven, Wyre, Ribble Valley, Blackpool, Fylde, Preston, South Ribble, Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn, Rossendale, Burnley, Pendle, Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, West Lancashire, Liverpool, Knowsley, St. Helens, Halton, Warrington, Trafford, Salford, Manchester, Tameside, Stockport, Chorley, Sefton, Wirral, Wigan, Oldham, Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, Kirklees, Cheshire East, Chester West and Chester, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Conwy, Isle of Anglesey, Gwynedd, Calderdale and Wrexham. This lot includes the plant health inspection service of controlled wood products into the principle ports of Teesport, Seaham, Hartlepool, Port of Sunderland and the Port of Tyne. The contract area includes the following unitary authority areas — Northumberland, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Stockton on Tees, Middlesbrough, South Tyneside, Gateshead, Sunderland, County Durham, Hartlepool, Redcar and Cleveland, Darlington, Scarborough, Ryedale, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire. This lot includes the plant health inspection service of controlled wood products into the principle ports of Hull, Barrowhaven, Flixsborough, Grove, Keadby, Grimsby, New Holland, Goole, and Immingham. The lot area includes the local government districts of North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, City of Kingston Upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, York, Selby, Doncaster, West Lindsey, East Lindsey, North Kesteven South Kesteven, Lincoln. This lot includes the plant health inspection service of controlled wood products into the principle ports of Tilbury, London Gateway and Thamesport. This lot involves the plant health inspection service of controlled wood products into the principle ports of Felixstowe and Harwich. This lot involves plant health inspection service of controlled wood products into the principle ports of Poole, Southampton and Shoreham. The lot area includes the following counties of: West Sussex, Hampshire, West Berkshire, Oxfordshire (part only), Dorset (part only, Wiltshire (part only), Greater London (part only). This lots includes the plant health inspection service of controlled wood products into the principle ports of Portbury, Cardiff, Newport, Swansea, Barry and Avonmouth. This lot includes the plant health inspection service of controlled wood products into the principle ports of Plymouth, Par, and Fowey. There are no principle ports in this contract as the lot is land locked. This area has not previously been the subject of a Forestry Commission contract for plant health inspection work and is a new geographical lot for this framework. Anticipated work includes: — Phytophthora ramorum processor authorisation visits and audits, — Inspection of imports of firewood at the first point of destination under the statutory notification scheme for firewood, — Inspections of export goods in relation to issuing export phytosanitary certificates, — Visits to logistic premises to check compliance of imported wood packaging materia.