Agricultural and Environmental Advice Services

Tender description

The Welsh Ministers aims to award a contract to enable the commissioning of technical agricultural and environmental advice services to inform policy development and operations. The contract will be used for a wide range of services, from the development of Regulatory Impact Assessments to assess proposed regulatory interventions to the delivery of the helpline to support farms to implement the Control of Agricultural Pollution Regulations and includes the following areas: -Agricultural pollution, climate change, environment and biodiversity - Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA Agriculture). - Agricultural Land Tribunal. - Plant Health, Invasive Non-Native Species, Pesticides and Biocides, Seeds, Genetically Modified (GM) crops and Wildlife. - Soils (including Agricultural Land Classification – ALC - and peatlands), - Agricultural tenancies, - Agricultural Minimum Wage - Any other additional agricultural or environmental advice. Much of the work completed under this contract is vital to ensuring that our statutory duties are met. We envisage the contract will be 4 years in length and valued at approximately GBP 2,000,000 over the full contract term, GBP 500k per annum. We anticipate the contract notice will be published in June 2022 and the e-tender will be managed through eTender Wales. Bidders should register their interest through this sell2wales notice. Lot 1: The Welsh Ministers aims to award a contract to enable the commissioning of technical agricultural and environmental advice services to inform policy development and operations. The contract will be used for a wide range of services, from the development of Regulatory Impact Assessments to assess proposed regulatory interventions to the delivery of the helpline to support farms to implement the Control of Agricultural Pollution Regulations and includes the following areas: -Agricultural pollution, climate change, environment and biodiversity - Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA Agriculture). - Agricultural Land Tribunal. - Plant Health, Invasive Non-Native Species, Pesticides and Biocides, Seeds, Genetically Modified (GM) crops and Wildlife. - Soils (including Agricultural Land Classification – ALC - and peatlands), - Agricultural tenancies, - Agricultural Minimum Wage - Any other additional agricultural or environmental advice. Much of the work completed under this contract is vital to ensuring that our statutory duties are met. We envisage the contract will be 4 years in length and valued at approximately GBP 2,000,000 over the full contract term, GBP 500k per annum. We anticipate the contract notice will be published in June 2022 and the e-tender will be managed through eTender Wales. Bidders should register their interest through this sell2wales notice.