Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Natural England · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- The Environment Partnership (Tep) Limited SME
- Value
- £125,019.43
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Survey services (CPV 79311000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 040932-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date22 Apr 2026
- Published5 May 2026Published 13 days after the contract date
Description
The purpose of this contract is to: <br/> <br/>• Determine and describe the location(s) and quality of: <br/><br/>• Assemblages of breeding birds – Upland moorland and grassland with water bodies <br/><br/>• Aggregation of breeding birds – Golden Plover<br/><br/>• Aggregation of breeding birds – Curlew<br/><br/>• Aggregation of breeding birds – Merlin<br/><br/>• Aggregation of breeding birds – Twite<br/><br/>• at the following sites:<br/>• South Pennine Moors SSSI<br/><br/>• Make an overall condition assessment of the feature using standardised survey methods.<br/>• Record details of any ‘pressures’ observed at the site which may impact on the condition of the monitored feature(s) <br/>• Suggest where current management is working and, where it is not, why that might that be.<br/>• Make comments on the monitoring specification <br/> <br/>South Pennine Moors SSSI – Background Information<br/><br/>South Pennine Moors SSSI is outstandingly important for its extensive upland habitats and …
About the supplier
The Environment Partnership (Tep) Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07745159).