Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Natural England · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Pathtrack Limited SME
- Value
- £4,535
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Global navigation and positioning systems (GPS or equivalent) (CPV 38112100)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
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- Timeline
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- Contract date17 Feb 2025
- Published28 May 2025Published 100 days after the contract date
Description
This contract will provide the GPS tags to be owned by Natural England and to be subsequently loaned out to a third party to study nightingales in the 2025/26 breeding season. Defra's Agri-environment schemes include both the existing Environmental Stewardship, Countryside Stewardship, and the newer Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and Landscape Recovery. Natural England's Agri-environment team is working closely with farmers and landowners to use the schemes offered by DEFRA to deliver nature recovery at a landscape-scale. Understanding how species respond to Agri-environment actions is crucial to target investment properly. Nightingale is a red-listed species of conservation concern in the UK. Kent holds a significant proportion of the UK's Nightingale population, more than other individual counties. This project aims to investigate Nightingale use of agri-environment schemes in the Low Weald area, including hedgerow and scrub creation, field margins and ponds. It will focus on t…
About the supplier
Pathtrack Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 05876606).