Provision of Dead Wild Bird Avian Influenza Surveillance

Concepts

• gb wildlife disease surveillance partnership
• environmental monitoring
• dead wild bird
• provision of dead wild bird
• british wildlife health surveillance
• surveillance
• dead wild waterbirds
• provision of dead wild bird avian influenza surveillance
• member of the gb wildlife disease surveillance partnership
• avian influenza

Location

London

Description

APHA requires the Contractor to carry out the provision of Dead Wild Bird AI Surveillance and other Wildlife health activities across a number of Specified Reserves in Great Britain on behalf of the Authority in accordance with sections 2 and 3. Service A - Dead Wild Bird AI Surveillance To assess the occurrence of AI viruses in Dead Wild Waterbirds on mainland Great Britain by Surveillance at the Specified Reserves. Service B - GB Wildlife Disease Surveillance Partnership (GB WDSP) To contribute to British Wildlife Health Surveillance as a member of the GB Wildlife Disease Surveillance Partnership. Service C - Ad hoc Advice To contribute ornithological and Wildlife Health advice and fieldwork on an ad hoc basis within the mainland GB Specified Reserves and any third-party sites in close proximity where requested. Any work commissioned on third party sites would be subject to a Change Control Note for an additional payment, to be agreed with the Authority before any work is undertaken.

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 90711500 - Environmental monitoring other than for construction

Indicators

• Award on basis of price.

Legal Justification

The Contractor is in a unique position in having reserve wardens who have historically collected waterbird carcasses as part of the organisation's long-term wildlife health monitoring programmes. The contractor manages nine important wetland reserves in the UK with eight of these based in England and Wales and one in Northern Ireland. All samples for this project will be collected from the England and Wales Locations. A fundamental requirement of the contract is to sample wild bird carcases across mainland GB where there are known large bird gatherings (i.e. at wildlife reserves), APHA has already explored other organisations that have a similar portfolio of reserves and established that WWT is uniquely placed as they have (a) the portfolio of reserves with an appropriate GB coverage, (b) the staff with trained expertise to swab and sample the carcases at each site, and (c) the scientific expertise to provide APHA with specialist advice that they do not possess in house. The WWT sites have a large range of wild bird species coming through their sites which provide a good insight into AIV prevalence as wild populations migrate in and out of Great Britain. Continuing to carry out surveillance across the same sites which are currently monitored via the outgoing contract will also provide the benefit of consistency and comparison of trends with previous years

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