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SE Shared Services

ESPH SB Ashdown Forest Special Protection Area (SPA) Monitoring Strategy and Visitor Survey (ESPH132) - AWARD

Environment & WasteCPV 90700000 77231500 90713000 90712200 90711500
Value£30k
Awarded27 Apr 2016
Published1 Jun 2016
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£30ktotal contract value
median £195k
this tender£0£5.0m

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The brief

Wealden District Council are seeking to appoint suitably qualified and experienced consultants to devise an Ashdown Forest SPA monitoring strategy that will assist Wealden and other local authorities in identifying a long-term monitoring Framework to understand bird populations at Ashdown Forest and to assess the success of SANGs and access management at the SPA.

The successful consultant shall also be required to devise and undertake a visitor survey at Ashdown Forest to provide evidence to inform the Wealden Local Plan and the application of the avoidance and mitigation strategy for Wealden and other relevant local authorities.

In broad terms, the work required to be undertaken includes the following: (1) To generate and compile up-to-date and credible visitor use data to determine visitor access patterns and recreational use at Ashdown Forest SPA. (2) To devise an Ashdown Forest SPA monitoring strategy.

These two projects are inter-linked in that the visitor survey methodology will form part of the SPA avoidance and mitigation monitoring strategy. **This project has now been awarded**

Requirements

What the notice asks for

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The successful consultant shall also be required

The successful consultant shall also be required to devise and undertake a visitor survey at Ashdown Forest to provide evidence to inform the Wealden Local Plan and the application of the avoidance and mitigation strategy for Wealden and other relevant local authorities.

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In broad terms, the work required

In broad terms, the work required to be undertaken includes the following:.

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