Environmental engineering consultancy services

Tender description

For Yorkshire Water to comply with our regulatory duties under the Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP) and Water Industry Act (1991) a number of services are required to deliver on these duties. These include: — Aquatic Ecological Surveys, — Terrestrial Ecological Surveys, — Aquatic Environmental Assessments, — River Restoration design and build. The above requirements are split across multiple lots. The Lot aims to cover the following: Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecological Surveys: — Survey data provision, — Recommendations based on surveys, — Will inform future investment and help us meet our regulatory duties, — Survey type examples: Fish, Macroinvertebrate, macrophytes, invasive species, invasive specis, otter, water vole, great crested newt, badger, — Fish tagging investigations, — Pollution incident response and reporting. Aquatic Environmental Assessment: — Provision of Drought Plan and Water Resources Management Plan according to Water Industry Act (1991), — Will meet our regulatory duties, — Primarily desk based. Relies on secondary data collected via Lot 1 +/ 2, — Regular client liaison meetings, — Analysis of environmental data, modelling, — Stakeholder engagement (EA, NE) on behalf of client, — Report production, — Public consultation, — EARs, — SEAs, — Screening, — EMP, — HRA + WFD assessment. Awarded entity will need to be able to coordinate work that is spread across Aquatic Surveys, Terrestrial Surveys and Aquatic Assessments (eg. organising survey permissions, providing summary reports, programmes, financial reporting across all activities) The Lot aims to cover the following: Aquatic Ecological Surveys: — Survey data provision, — Recommendations based on surveys, — Will inform future investment and help us meet our regulatory duties, — Survey type examples: Fish, Macroinvertebrate, macrophytes, invasive species, invasive species, otter, water vole, great crested newt, — Fish tagging investigations, — Pollution incident response and reporting. The Lot aims to cover the following: Strategic biodiversity assessment: — Production of corporate biodiversity strategy, — Production of biodiversity metrics and survey standards. Terrestrial Ecological Surveys: — Survey data provision, — Recommendations based on surveys and production of Habitat Management Plans, — Will inform future investment and help us meet our regulatory duties, — Survey type examples: invasive species, otter, water vole, great crested newt, birds, bat, badger, etc. The Lot aims to cover the following: Aquatic Environmental Assessment: — Provision of Drought Plan and Water Resources Management Plan according to Water Industry Act (1991), — Will meet our regulatory duties, — Primarily desk based. Relies on secondary data collected via Lot 1 +/ 2, — Regular client liaison meetings, — Analysis of environmental data, modelling, — Stakeholder engagement (EA, NE) on behalf of client, — Report production, — Public consultation, — EARs, — SEAs, — Screening, — EMP, — HRA + WFD assessment. The Lot aims to cover the following: River Restoration design and build: — Provision of river restoration design and build services, — Will help us meet our WINEP duties. Health and Safety CDM regulation must be adhered to when executing these works; it has been required that the supplier will need to undertake the role of the Principle Designer and Principle Contractor for the scope described above.