UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

DAERA - Local Rural Community Support Service Programme for the Fermanagh and Omagh District Council area

The Department are seeking a contractor for the Printing, production and delivery of Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (DAERA) MC2 (Movement Control) and SG2(Sheep and Goats) Movement Non Carbon Required (NCR) serialised books on behalf of IRM Branch within Veterinary Service Animal Health Division. Movement notification documentation will be required to be supplied to DAERA Direct Offices at 12 different locations. The delivery of the documentation must be completed twice a year, normally no later than the last working day of April and the last working day of October, but deliveries of documentation books to individual sites outside of those periods may be requested by DAERA. The contract will run for three years from September 2022 to September 2025, with two deliveries to each of the twelve sites in all years unless otherwise requested.

DAERA requires a Contractor to use remote sensing techniques to ensure compliance and control for: 1. Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) eligibility (Higher applications); and 2. Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) eligibility. DAERA has used Control with Remote Sensing (CwRS) as the primary control for area based schemes since 2012 and its processes are business as usual functions. The Contractor will be required to comply with these processes.

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), Department for Communities (DfC), Department for Infrastructure (DfI), and their associated agencies (the Client), are seeking to appoint a Contractor for the provision of Cyber Security Services to support the IT information risk assurance and accreditation processes. The scope of this contract will cover the provision of Cyber Security Services for Systems and Applications supporting the Client business operations. Please refer to document ID 4274797 - Specification for more information on this requirement.

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has a requirement for vehicle/ SPS seal checks at the GB ports of Cairnryan, Loch Ryan, Birkenhead and Heysham within the operating area of the existing ferry operators from 1 April 2023. The services will be provided through four Lots as set out below. One Contractor will be appointed for each Lot. For each Lot, the contract will commence from 1 April 2023 for one year with five options to extend for any period up to, and including, one year each. DAERA is offering the opportunity for Tenderers, by appointment, to attend a site visit at each port on the dates and times stated within the Specification.

DAERA requires Contractor(s) to provide services to: • collect the infected or suspected cattle from farms or other notified locations and transport them to their slaughter establishment. • slaughter infected or suspected cattle within 24hours of arrival to the slaughter facility; and • arrange for the disposal of any unfit/condemned meat/carcases (transport to and disposal at suitable rendering plant(s). This contract is divided into three (3) Lots: • Lot 1 – The Western Region will cover the Omagh, Dungannon, and Enniskillen; • Lot 2 – The Northern Region will cover the Strabane, Coleraine, Ballymena, and Mallusk; • Lot 3 – The Eastern Region will cover the Newtownards, Armagh and Newry

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) requires a contract for the supply and delivery of 3 insulated proprietary freezer-containers and 1 insulated proprietary container. The Client requests that they are delivered by 25th August 2023 but they must be delivered no later than 8th September 2023. It is anticipated that this Contract will commence on delivery of the containers. The initial contract period is 3 years and there are three options to extend for any period up to, and including, twelve months each.

Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) Inland Fisheries (IF) require a tracked amphibious utility vehicle. This machine will be fitted with a fully demountable moveable mast and associated lifting gear capable of suspending a hydraulic post driver. This amphibious vehicle will need to be of an appropriate size that it can be legally towed on a trailer behind a 4x4 vehicle as per UK vehicle/trailer regulations. The successful supplier will provide onsite induction training and provide a 2-year warranty/1000hr of operation for equipment supplied.

DAERA (the Buyer) is seeking to establish a contract with a Supplier to provide genetic and genomic evaluations, benchmarking services, and associated customer support services for the Northern Ireland Bovine Genetics Programme. The main objectives of this programme are to create an integrated bovine data platform via a managed solution which will deliver and future-proof the functionality to provide genetic and genomic evaluations, benchmarking services, and associated customer support services, to the Bovine Genetics Programme and additionally provide flexibility to exploit the use of new technology where this provides benefit to the programme. The initial contract period is for 5 years with two optional extension periods of 2 years each and a further optional extension period of 1 year. For further details regarding the requirement, please refer to document entitled “ID 4881595 – Mid-Tier Schedule 02 (Specification)”.

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has a requirement for a Supplier to provide a detector dog and handler, on a full-time basis to assist Veterinary Service, a specific business area within DAERA, in the targeting of products of animal and plant origin at Northern Ireland (NI) airports and ports and parcel handling locations.

Forest Service wishes to invite tenders for the Supply and Delivery of Spare Parts for Plant and Equipment. Forest Service anticipates establishing a multi-Lot Contract(s) with suppliers for the provision of these parts. Forest Service currently carries out servicing and repair of a range of plant and plant machinery at two Workshops (see section 6.2). In order for the fleet to effectively operate Forest Service must procure spare parts to service and repair the fleet items that they maintain. The aim of this Contract(s) is to enable Forest Service to establish call-off arrangements for the Supply and Delivery of Spare Parts for Plant and Equipment to various locations across Northern Ireland. It is intended that, via this arrangement, Forest Service will be able to source all Spare Parts necessary to enable the effective repair and maintenance of the fleet of machinery / plant vehicles. The overall objective is to deliver value for money and cash releasing savings for each organisation. The Contract(s) will be structured into 12 Lots based on Plant type. A Contractor will be awarded for each Lot.

Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs have a requirement for the provision of buses to CAFRE. This requirement is divided into 3 Lots; one Lot for each college campus as follows:- • Lot 1 - Greenmount Campus, 45 Tirgracy Road, Muckamore, Antrim, County Antrim, BT41 4PS • Lot 2 - Loughry Campus, 76 Dungannon Road, Cookstown, County Tyrone, BT80 9AA • Lot 3 - Enniskillen Campus, Levaghy, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, BT74 4GF The Contract will remain in place for an initial period of 3 years with two optional extension periods of 12 months each

DAERA is seeking to establish a contract for the supply of Official Veterinarian (OV) services to deliver official controls and official activities in various locations throughout Northern Ireland. The OVs will be considered as the Supplier’s key personnel throughout the lifetime of the Contract. This is solely a services contract, there will be no opportunity for employment with the Buyer through this Contract.

The CAFRE Soil Carbon Coring Project has been developed by technologists at CAFRE to obtain a field level baseline of soil carbon stocks, soil nutrient and carbon properties at the five CAFRE estate farms in Northern Ireland. The project will provide CAFRE with a dataset that can be used for the delivery of innovation projects and industry demonstration on the management of soil carbon stocks and soil sequestration rates across a wide array of soil types, land uses and management practices. The project objectives are to - provide a detailed accurate measurement, analysis and establishment of a dataset of soil carbon stocks on active agricultural soils and on non-active agricultural/farmland soils at an individual field and subsequent whole farm level at each CAFRE farm centres - sample, analyse and report on broad soil nutrient and carbon properties at 0 – 7.5 cm depth on grassland areas and 0 – 15 cm on arable areas at an individual field and subsequent whole farm level at each CAFRE farm centre.. CAFRE wishes to establish a contract for a Supplier to provide a stratification and sampling plan, in-field sampling, lab analysis and reporting of soil carbon stocks. In addition, the supplier will provide the provision of sampling for broad soil nutrient analysis, and soil carbon properties from across the CAFRE estate farms, which are to be analysed by NRM Cawood Laboratories. For further information please see the Specification document.

The Buyer requires seven Multiparameter Sondes for the high-resolution monitoring of the main Lough Neagh inflow and outflow rivers as part of a larger commissioned E and I project. The Supplier must also deliver the equipment prior to 31st March 2025. Warranty must also be provided, and further details are detailed with the document titled “ID 5674399 Specification”. This competition is being managed in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) and run using the Accelerated Open procedure. This is due to the urgent nature and the overarching DAERA-AFBI project which is expected to commence 2025. The aim of selecting this procedure is to ensure the items are delivered before the end of the financial year to allow the DAERA-AFBI Lough Neagh project to commence.

ID 5343015 DAERA Veterinary Service Animal Health Group – The Provision of the Transportation and Care of Seized Farmed Animals, and Disposal of Animal By-Product from Seized Animals

***PRE-MARKET ENGAGEMENT EXERCISE*** ***PLEASE NOTE: The Pre-Market Engagement Questionnaire can be accessed in the Cft Documents area*** The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs through the Forest Service presents this opportunity for wind energy developers to engage in the assessment of forest areas on its estate, which are of interest to the sector for future wind energy generation. This opportunity recognises the potential for Forest Service forests to contribute to meeting the requirement for 80 per cent electricity consumption from renewable sources by 2030, as set out in the Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022. This exercise aims to gather information from the wind energy sector on the forest areas that have the greatest potential to contribute to wind energy generation and should be considered for development. Responses from the wind energy sector will inform the Forest Service approach to the market opportunity and any subsequent, competitive procurement processes. This exercise is being used to determine the potential for any possible future contracts and their estimated value. Input from the renewable energy sector will provide a service to Forest Service in order to inform an approach to any subsequent go to market opportunity. This market sounding does not guarantee the commencement of a commercial competition resulting in monetary income or future outlay. **PLEASE NOTE: ALL COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRES MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA THE MESSAGING FUNCTION on eTendersNI, BEFORE 15:00 on the date specified below under 'Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate'.

Within DAERA the Veterinary Service Animal Health Group has an Identification, Registration and Movement (IRM) Branch that monitors compliance with the legislative requirements for animal identification and movement recording. The Cattle Identification (Notification of Births, Deaths and Movements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 require herd Keepers to notify the movement of animals on to and off their farms. To facilitate this DAERA provides movement notification documentation for the use of the Keepers concerned. IRM Branch determines the need for replacement stocks by monitoring the usage of notification documents and ordering sufficient stocks to support the continued operation of that system. Please see CFT documents for full details of the requirements.

DAERA is seeking to establish a ranked contract for the supply and delivery of Brucellosis testing kits for blood sampling of cattle in Northern Ireland. Brucellosis is a significant zoonotic disease in Northern Ireland and has been successfully eradicated from the national cattle herd with Official Brucellosis Freedom status attained from the EU in 2015. Blood sampling of high risk animals is a statutory requirement in addition to approved surveillance sampling of the national herd to prove continued disease freedom. Please see CFT documents for additional information.