Dam construction work

Tender description

The objective of this contract is to deliver a suite of works on 9 upland Sites in the South Pennines SAC. The sites are split into 4 packages of work. The aim of this works suites are to stabilise and revegetate bare peat, restore hydrology, and increase biodiversity on the sites. The works comprise the following tasks: 1) Supply delivery and storage of materials as required; 2) Forwarding of materials and equipment including airlifting; 3) Installation of stone dams; 4) Installation of peat dams; 5) Installation of peat bunding; 6) Re-profiling of hags and gully sides; 7) Installation of timber dams; 8) Installation of heather bales into gullies and peat pans; 9) Spreading of heather brash on bare peat; 10) Spreading of lime, seed, and fertiliser; 11) Cutting of vegetation; 12) Planting of sphagnum plug plants, sedge and dwarf shrub plug plants; 13) Rhododendron clearance; 14) Stock fencing; 15) Application of glyphosate and dwarf shrub seed; 16) Removal of waste materials. 1) Stone dams 750 kg stone 600 dams; 2) Peat dams 209; 3) Peat Bunding ha 118; 4) Rhododendron clearance ha 22; 5) Sphagnum planting Ha 300; 6) Fencing (12 stiles, 3 field gates) metres 3036; 7) Hand application lime seed and fertiliser ha 0.4; 8) Supply Brash Bags 85; 9) Glyphosate spraying ha 36; 10) Dwarf shrub plug planting Ha 36; 11) Dwarf shrub seeding Ha 36; 12) Removal of waste materials. 1) Heather bales 1476; 2) Timber dams 68; 3) Peat dams 24; 4) Reprofiling metres 40; 5) Molinia cutting ha 4; 6) Heather cutting ha 10,6; 7) Sphagnum planting Ha 344; 8) Hand application lime seed and fertiliser ha 3.7; 9) Supply brash bags 745; 10) Dwarf shrub plug planting Ha 41; 11) Removal of waste materials. 1) Stone dams 750 kg stone 112; 2) Heather bales 396; 3) Timber dams 32; 4) Hand application lime seed and fertiliser ha 3,63; 5) Supply brash bags 741; 6) Removal of waste materials. 1)Stone dams 750 kg stone 482 2) Heather bales 1 428; 3) Timber dams 48; 4) Heather cutting Ha 0,1; 5) Hand application lime seed and fertiliser ha 7,39; 6) Supply of brash 1508 bags; 7) Reprofiling metres 290; 8) Removal of waste materials.