Invitation to Tender for the Undertaking of a Marine Litter Survey 2021

Tender description

The Department is required to undertake a Marine Litter Survey for 2021. This is required to be done as part of Ireland’s commitments under the OSPAR Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). One of the MSFD’s qualitative descriptors for GES is that ‘properties and quantities of litter do not cause harm, to the coastal and marine environment’. For comparison purposes, four beaches have been continually monitored on four occasions per annum and form Ireland’s contribution to the OSPAR beach litter monitoring programme. The litter survey is undertaken in accordance with OSPAR beach litter monitoring protocols. The successful tenderer shall undertake beach litter monitoring surveys at the four designated beaches.