Natur am Byth Conservation grazing - Delivery phase

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Natur am Byth is Wales’ flagship Green Recovery project. It unites nine environmental charities with Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to deliver the country’s largest natural heritage and outreach programme to save species from extinction and to reconnect people to nature. Natur Am Byth will lead the way to nature recovery by showing how all the people of Wales and our most endangered and threatened wildlife can flourish together through delivering an ambitious programme of conservation management and inclusive outreach activity at both landscape and seascape scale, nationally and locally, across Wales. A successful delivery stage application to the NLHF was awarded to the partnership in June 2023, thus allowing the partnership to move on to the current ‘Delivery Phase’ which will continue until August 2027.Implementation of conservation grazing activity and training is a critical theme of the programme, with a number of key sites and species reliant on improvements to grazing practices and increased awareness of key stakeholders. Six of the ten partners in Natur am Byth are specifically focusing on grazing as a conservation management tool, namely:Bumblebee Conservation Trust (lead)Butterfly ConservationBuglifeRSPBNRWPlantlifeBumblebee Conservation Trust are the procurement lead for this contract, with selection and appointment the shared responsibility of a contract management commitment comprised of staff from the six partners list above.Quotes are invited from consultants to support six programme partners and the wider Natur am Byth programme on the following outputs:Contract Output 1 – site based conservation grazing implementationContract Output 2 – advice on events & trainingContract Output 3 – programme impact and legacy recommendationsThis main focus of this contract is the provision of site advisory work throughout our delivery phase estimated at 75 days split over five project areas, including follow-up site visits and help with implementation of advice and support to landowners.To undertake this contract you will be expected to:a. undertake site visits to identified locations at Montgomeryshire, Pen Llŷn ac Ynys Môn, Pembrokeshire, Gower, Vale of Glamorgan, and Bridgend.b. meet with relevant Natur am Byth partnership staff and (where required) landowners, tenants and local stakeholders.c. Work with project partners to outline grazing management requirements for species interests, as informed by the development grazing reports and learning from the delivery phase since September 2023.d. Where requirements of different species conflict, provide recommendations to achieve balance/diversity.e. Undertake contract review meetings with the contract lead (Bumblebee Conservation Trust) and other representatives from the relevant NaB partners.f. Prepare written work and recommendations in line with the contract milestones.Potential suppliers must submit a completed Invitation to Quote (ITQ), ITQ document attached to this notice. The ITQ provides potential suppliers with sufficient information to enable them to compile a comprehensive quote that meets our requirements for the delivery of the goods, services or works described. Unless required specifically to do so, bidders are not required to submit any other information. Please note that any additional information supplied by bidders that was not requested will be disregarded.Maximum (NET) budget available GDP37,000 (exclusive of VAT).This is a fixed budget in line with external funding agreements.Price (including VAT plus T&S costs) will be considered as part of the competitive award of contract.Contract ends June 2027Maximum of three year contract duration (36 months)