Environmental services

Tender description

The EPA is seeking ecological expertise and technical support in the areas of work and associated requirements specified below. Tenderers are required to demonstrate that they can provide personnel with the necessary skills, expertise and experience to meet the requirements in the indicative list of tasks set out below in each lot tendered. Each tenderer should provide for suitably qualified, experienced and competent candidates. The place of work will be in any of the EPA Regional Inspectorates in Dublin, Castlebar, Cork or Monaghan. It is anticipated that the primary place of work for lot 1 will be in the EPA Dublin Regional Inspectorate. Depending on the nature of the technical expertise and services being sought contractors may also be in a position to provide the expertise and or service from their company’s place of work. Contractors may also be asked to support EPA teams, or to undertake independently, monitoring of WFD water bodies. Framework agreement for the provision of monitoring and ecological technical support to the Environmental Protection Agency. It is expected that up to a maximum of three suitably qualified candidates may be required, at any given time, to provide the technical office-based services outlined in this tender. It is also anticipated that contractors will need to provide sampling support to EPA teams in undertaking the lake component of the national surface water monitoring assessment programme. Typically this will involve providing a sampling assistant to support an EPA field ecologist in each EPA team deployed to the field. It is anticipated that approximately 60 to 80 days of field sampling assistance, in total, will be required to support at least four separate EPA field teams. Suitably qualified tenderers may be required to undertake sampling in transitional and coastal waters and to deliver samples to an EPA laboratory. It is anticipated that approximately 30 to 60 days field sampling will be required per year. It is expected that up to a maximum of two additional suitably qualified candidates may be required, at any given time, to provide the services outlined above at one of the EPA regional inspectorates.