UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

Crown Estate Scotland intends to appoint an independent consultant to act as the Operators Panel Manager (OPM) for the Scottish Wave and Tidal Operators Agreement. The OPM will chair and manage the Operators Panel, coordinate Operators, and oversee business‑as‑usual functions of the unified Agreement (in place since October 2024). Key tasks include reinstating and chairing the Panel(s), managing technical work programmes, supporting the ongoing review and consolidation of the Agreements, coordinating technical workstreams (TWG/WWG), monitoring progress of model‑development projects such as UPSTREAM and TEAMER, and reviewing Operator Adverse Impact Assessments.

The aim of this contract is to implement a framework agreement whereby Crown Estate Scotland have access to a number of competent contractors who can deliver the following across Northeast Scotland (Glenlivet Estate and Fochabers Estate) and South Scotland (Applegirth Estate and Whitehill Estate); - Ground preparation work including site access, mounding, drainage, forest roads, laybys and passing places. - Tree planting services to support the restock of future harvesting or windblow clearance works. This will contribute to the delivery of the annual forestry restocking programme and ensure compliance with our legal restocking obligations Market consultation is an important part of the procurement process and gives us an opportunity to consider your specialist opinion and expertise. As such we are requesting all interested suppliers complete the below survey by COB '23rd October 2025'. https://www.cognitoforms.com/ScotlandExcel1/OnBehalfOfCrownEstateScotlandGroungPreparationAndTreesPlantingFramework

Crown Estate Scotland (CES) operates an outsourced business model for a significant part of its property management functions across its Rural, Coastal, Commercial, Salmon Fishing Rights, Minerals and Mines Royal property portfolios. Currently there are a series of contracts in place with firms of Managing Agents (MA’s) with specialist property management skills, capacity and experience, some of which are due to end in March 2026. Crown Estate Scotland is undertaking a pre-market engagment exercise and has prepared a series of questions for parties capable of providing managing agent services for its Rural and Commercial Property portfolio’s ahead of the tendering process. By answering these questions your organisation will assist Crown Estate Scotland develop its approach to re-tendering our Managing Agents contracts for our rural and commercial property portfolio. Please find the questions at this link: https://forms.office.com/e/d0AGdXxmzT a Word document is also to attached to this notice containing the hyperlink. Please note, the services to which this PIN relates may have a lotting structure. However, II.1.6) of this notice indicates that it is not divided into lots. To be clear, this simply means that this PIN notice is not divided into lots. However, the relevant contracts to which this PIN relates may be divided into lots.

This prior information notice (PIN) no. 2 is to request feedback from interested parties regarding their views on aspects of our tender, together with potential alterations to applicable Terms & Conditions.

This prior information notice is to inform the market that Crown Estate Scotland intends to publish a procurement in order to seek a supplier/service provider to provide a replacement Property Management / Asset Management System to support operation management and strategic goals and to provide related services to ensure the successful transition to the new system and ongoing development, maintenance and support services. As part of the pre-procurement process Crown Estate Scotland is seeking views and information from the market in connection with the required services procurement strategy and scope of the Contract.