Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Forestry England for and on behalf of The Forestry Commission · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Arbonaut Oy Ltd SME
- Value
- £170,871.06
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Architecture & engineering · Surveying services (CPV 71355000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 045355-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date11 Apr 2025
- Published1 Aug 2025Published 112 days after the contract date
Description
The work under this contract will produce outputs for a LiDAR-based forest inventory. This involves LiDAR data collection with accompanying field sampling for calibration, and all aspects of data processing to produce forest inventory estimates. Data capture will take place in Forestry England managed forests across England totalling 46,725 ha. There are 2 main regions: New Forest and Yorkshire. The contract may be extended to include a further 2 regions - Devon and/or Cannock – dependent on budget availability.
About the supplier
Arbonaut Oy Ltd: every public contract they have won.