ID 5623675 - DAERA - CAFRE - ESTABLISHMENT SOIL CARBON STOCKS BASELINE AT THE CAFRE FARMS

Concepts

• belfast
• technical testing and analysis
• soil
• soil carbon stocks
• soil nutrient
• broad soil nutrient
• active agricultural soils
• soil types
• soil sequestration rates
• carbon properties

Location

Northern Ireland:

Description

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

Total Quantity or Scope

- 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.

Renewal Options

This Contract is for an initial period of 12 months with 1 optional extension period of up to 12 months

CPV Codes

• 71600000 - Technical testing, analysis and consultancy services
• 71610000 - Composition and purity testing and analysis services
• 71620000 - Analysis services
• 71621000 - Technical analysis or consultancy services
• 71900000 - Laboratory services
• 14212400 - Soil

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Options are available.
• Renewals are available.

Other Information

– 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. ** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** Contract Monitoring. Contract monitoring: the successful contractor’s performance on the. contract will be regularly monitored... Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a. contractor. fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified. time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in construction. and procurement delivery (CPD) for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within. the specified period, this may be considered grounds for termination of the contract at your expense as provided for in the Conditions. of Contract. In lieu of termination, CPD may issue a Notice of Written Warning or a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance.. A supplier in. receipt of multiple Notices of Written Warning or a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance may, in accordance with The Public Contracts. Regulations 2015 (as amended), be excluded from future public procurement competitions for a period of up to three years. The. Authority expressly reserves the rights: (I). not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication. of this notice; (II). to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering Competition; (III). to award (a). contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the [services] covered by this notice; and (IV). to award contract(s) in stages and in no circumstances. will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates