RSPB Lake Vyrnwy Peatland Restoration 2025-26: Pen Bwlan

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  "buyer": {
    "id": "org-11",
    "name": "RSPB"
  },
  "date": "2025-07-15T15:42:18Z",
  "id": "ocds-kuma6s-153438-release-153438",
  "initiationType": "tender",
  "ocid": "ocds-kuma6s-153438",
  "parties": [
    {
      "address": {
        "locality": "Cardiff",
        "postalCode": "CF11 9AB",
        "streetAddress": "RSPB Wales, Castlebridge 3, 5-19 Cowbridge Road East, "
      },
      "contactPoint": {
        "name": "Julia Harrison",
        "telephone": "+44 2920353000"
      },
      "id": "org-11",
      "name": "RSPB",
      "roles": [
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    "additionalClassifications": [
      {
        "description": "Construction work",
        "id": "45000000",
        "scheme": "CPV"
      },
      {
        "description": "Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services",
        "id": "77000000",
        "scheme": "CPV"
      }
    ],
    "awardPeriod": {
      "endDate": "2025-09-03T00:00:00Z"
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    "communication": {
      "atypicalToolUrl": "http://www.sell2wales.gov.wales"
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    "description": "RSPB Cymru is looking to appoint a contractor to deliver works on the Lake Vyrnwy estate as part of an extensive ongoing programme of peatland restoration. The contractor will be working to raise water tables across blanket bog by blocking drainage ditches and gullies with peat or coir dams and reprofiling or tamping the extensive peat hags. Pen Bwlan is 72ha of more fringe peatland, bordering the large hefts of blanket peatland with acid grassland and dry heath elements. Extensive drainage, cutting and historic overgrazing on Pen Bwlan has resulted in the site being unlike any other on the Lake Vyrnwy estate; with peat hags rife and significant peat area lost, leaving only \u00e2\u0080\u009cislands\u00e2\u0080\u009d of peat remaining.______________________________________________________________________This summer, the RSPB will release a further 3 separate invitations to tender relating to peatland restoration or surveying, with work completion some time between 01/10/2025 and 15/03/2026. Estimated person days provided WILL change when the invitation to tenders are released and are to be used as guide. Further information will be provided when the invitation to tenders are released. These are as follows:Eidda Fawr, Migneint - Gully and ditch blocking using peat dams, hag reprofiling, some possible modification of previous work. Estimated person days: 140.Helfa Isaf, Ffridd Cedig and Mynydd Newydd, Lake Vyrnwy - Gully and ditch blocking using peat dams, hag reprofiling, modification of previous work, possible install of coir logs. Estimated person days: 68.Cwm Pennant Peat Depth Survey, Llangynog - 706ha site requiring a peat depth survey on a 50x50m grid. Number of peat depth points: 2,266Estimated person days: 25 person days.NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=144212.The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=153438.The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.\n\nBidders are strongly recommended to conduct a site visit to better inform their quote. There will be an opportunity for interested parties to visit the project site w/c 04 August 2025.(WA Ref:153438)",
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        "dateModified": "2025-07-15T15:42:19Z",
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        "format": "application/pdf",
        "id": "ocds-kuma6s-153438-document-153438-JUL527207-1",
        "title": "Map of site locations of all possible tenderable RSPB Cymru peatland work 2025 to 2026",
        "url": "https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Notice/Download/DocumentDownload.aspx?id=JUL527207\u0026idx=1"
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        "id": "ocds-kuma6s-153438-document-153438-JUL527207-2",
        "title": "Invitation to tender. Return this via Sell2Wales",
        "url": "https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Notice/Download/DocumentDownload.aspx?id=JUL527207\u0026idx=2"
      },
      {
        "dateModified": "2025-08-22T15:29:23Z",
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        "id": "ocds-kuma6s-153438-document-153438-JUL527207-3",
        "title": "Please submit your tender using the updated file \"invitationtotender_Pen Bwlan FINAL V2\". ",
        "url": "https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Notice/Download/DocumentDownload.aspx?id=JUL527207\u0026idx=3"
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    "mainProcurementCategory": "works",
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    "submissionMethodDetails": "http://www.sell2wales.gov.wales",
    "tenderPeriod": {
      "endDate": "2025-08-25T08:00:00Z"
    },
    "title": "RSPB Lake Vyrnwy Peatland Restoration 2025-26: Pen Bwlan"
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