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Contract Notice

​ANGLESEY FENS FOR ALL, FOREVER PROJECT ​CORSYDD MÔN i BAWB, AM BYTH PARTNERSHIP SCHEME EVALUATION

  • First published: 07 June 2024
  • Last modified: 21 June 2024

Contents

Summary

OCID:
ocds-kuma6s-142076
Published by:
North Wales Wildlife Trust
Authority ID:
AA80047
Publication date:
07 June 2024
Deadline date:
15 July 2024
Notice type:
Contract Notice
Has documents:
No
Has SPD:
No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:
No

Abstract

Introduction: North Wales Wildlife Trust are currently seeking an evaluation and monitoring expert for a contracted role to independently conduct process and impact evaluations of our two-year development project, Corsydd Môn/ Anglesey Fens For All, Forever (AFFF). We invite tenders from evaluation experts to offer formative evaluation and monitoring services throughout the project's 2-year development phase. This will include the development of a tailored framework to assess this development phase of the project, as well as helping shape plans for a delivery phase for the project that we will be seeking further funding for. Background to the project: The Anglesey Fens’ long-term future is severely threatened by issues of water quantity/quality, habitat fragmentation/degradation and the impacts of climate change. There is an urgent need for landscape-scale collaborative behaviour-changing engagement and action. To ensure long-term sustainability, the Anglesey Fens need to be surrounded by complementary, connected natural habitats and local communities who care for them. This National Lottery Heritage Fund Corsydd Môn/Anglesey Fens for all, Forever project will work with farmers, foresters and local communities to create an exemplar region for catchment-sensitive farming; landscape-scale conservation practice; improving catchment-scale water quality; and helping communities sustainably improve their local economy and wellbeing. The project’s key themes are: Using internationally recognised designated sites as a base from which to improve the wider area’s grassland, wetland and heathland vegetation. Facilitating major changes to farming practices to address both the climate and nature emergencies and enhance ecological resilience: establishing wildlife corridors and buffer zones; changing cropping and grazing practices at a large scale; and improving the critical water supply and chemistry regimes which feed the Fens. Developing a participatory activity plan with the community and tailoring the project to support underrepresented groups/new audiences: ensuring that the Fens benefit the community and become a specific destination for a diverse spectrum of visitors. This will include an extensive engagement programme; multi-user access improvements; and educational resources for everyone from primary schoolchildren to postgraduate researchers. Establishing a wide local partnership to co-produce, steer, deliver and evaluate the project: ensuring that new ways of working and learning encourage much wider participation (e.g. via social prescribing, digital storytelling, art and traditional skills). Why are we evaluating? The AFFF Partnership and the External Evaluator will follow National Lottery Heritage Fund guidance to provide objectivity, independence, and expert skills for mid-term and summative evaluation. The evaluator will ensure data collection, analyse outcomes, and produce reports with practical recommendations for decision-making and advocacy. This data will inform this development phase and help establish the need for, and potential focus of, a delivery phase that we would seek funding for. As an example, some key elements of this development phase include: Volunteer upskilling and training activities Site visits, events, workshops and presentation days A pilot outdoor wellbeing social prescribing project Stakeholder mapping Pilot programme to support people to overcome barriers to participation The co-production of project elements with a community representative steering group School engagement and citizen science projects Structural survey assessments for potential capital works linked to site access Marketing and communications and audience development plans for the sites To apply please upload a current CV, CVs, or organisation summary along with an outline of your proposed approach (no more than 4 pages) via the Sell 2 Wales postbox.

Full notice text

CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

SERVICES

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address


North Wales Wildlife Trust

Living Landscapes , Llys Garth, Bangor,

Bangor

LL57 2RT

UK

Neil Dunsire

+44 1248351541

neildunsire@nwwt.org.uk

https://www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk
https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales
https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales

1.2

Address from which documentation may be obtained


North Wales Wildlife Trust

Living Landscapes , Llys Garth,

Bangor

LL57 2RT

UK

Neil Dunsire

+44 7951572355

neildunsire@nwwt.org.uk

https://www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk

1.3

Completed documents must be returned to:


North Wales Wildlife Trust

Living Landscapes , Llys Garth, Bangor,

Bangor

LL57 2RT

UK

Neil Dunsire

+44 7951572355

neildunsire@nwwt.org.uk

https://www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

​ANGLESEY FENS FOR ALL, FOREVER PROJECT ​CORSYDD MÔN i BAWB, AM BYTH PARTNERSHIP SCHEME EVALUATION

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

Introduction:

North Wales Wildlife Trust are currently seeking an evaluation and monitoring expert for a contracted role to independently conduct process and impact evaluations of our two-year development project, Corsydd Môn/ Anglesey Fens For All, Forever (AFFF). We invite tenders from evaluation experts to offer formative evaluation and monitoring services throughout the project's 2-year development phase. This will include the development of a tailored framework to assess this development phase of the project, as well as helping shape plans for a delivery phase for the project that we will be seeking further funding for.

Background to the project:

The Anglesey Fens’ long-term future is severely threatened by issues of water quantity/quality, habitat fragmentation/degradation and the impacts of climate change. There is an urgent need for landscape-scale collaborative behaviour-changing engagement and action. To ensure long-term sustainability, the Anglesey Fens need to be surrounded by complementary, connected natural habitats and local communities who care for them.

This National Lottery Heritage Fund Corsydd Môn/Anglesey Fens for all, Forever project will work with farmers, foresters and local communities to create an exemplar region for catchment-sensitive farming; landscape-scale conservation practice; improving catchment-scale water quality; and helping communities sustainably improve their local economy and wellbeing.

The project’s key themes are:

Using internationally recognised designated sites as a base from which to improve the wider area’s grassland, wetland and heathland vegetation.

Facilitating major changes to farming practices to address both the climate and nature emergencies and enhance ecological resilience: establishing wildlife corridors and buffer zones; changing cropping and grazing practices at a large scale; and improving the critical water supply and chemistry regimes which feed the Fens.

Developing a participatory activity plan with the community and tailoring the project to support underrepresented groups/new audiences: ensuring that the Fens benefit the community and become a specific destination for a diverse spectrum of visitors. This will include an extensive engagement programme; multi-user access improvements; and educational resources for everyone from primary schoolchildren to postgraduate researchers.

Establishing a wide local partnership to co-produce, steer, deliver and evaluate the project: ensuring that new ways of working and learning encourage much wider participation (e.g. via social prescribing, digital storytelling, art and traditional skills).

Why are we evaluating?

The AFFF Partnership and the External Evaluator will follow National Lottery Heritage Fund guidance to provide objectivity, independence, and expert skills for mid-term and summative evaluation. The evaluator will ensure data collection, analyse outcomes, and produce reports with practical recommendations for decision-making and advocacy. This data will inform this development phase and help establish the need for, and potential focus of, a delivery phase that we would seek funding for.

As an example, some key elements of this development phase include:

Volunteer upskilling and training activities

Site visits, events, workshops and presentation days

A pilot outdoor wellbeing social prescribing project

Stakeholder mapping

Pilot programme to support people to overcome barriers to participation

The co-production of project elements with a community representative steering group

School engagement and citizen science projects

Structural survey assessments for potential capital works linked to site access

Marketing and communications and audience development plans for the sites

To apply please upload a current CV, CVs, or organisation summary along with an outline of your proposed approach (no more than 4 pages) via the Sell 2 Wales postbox.

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=142076.

The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.

Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

79419000 Evaluation consultancy services
1011 Isle of Anglesey
1012 Gwynedd

2.4

Total quantity or scope of tender

The maximum funding allocation for this contract is: £12,000 + VAT

The evaluation and monitoring consultant will:

Provide facilitated support to the AFFF Project Manager and the Partnership to embed evaluation processes throughout the delivery of the development phase.

Work with the Partnership and Scheme Manager to continually monitor data to check whether a programme or project is reaching its goals and to generally assess how it is delivering against plans.

Produce an evaluation framework for the delivery phase of the project based on information gathered in this development phase.

Create and tailor quantitative and qualitive data capture tools to fit the project's needs.

Work with the partnership to ensure that quantitative data on demographics/socio-economic status for local population and target beneficiaries from appropriate /secondary sources is routinely collated and analysed alongside in relation to AFFF delivery.

Provide face-to-face ‘critical friend’ support throughout the delivery stage.

Ensure relevant data and evidence is being collected and analysed to meet National Lottery Heritage Fund requirements and the requirements of other funders as necessary.

Provide creative action-centred evaluation for delivery stage with stakeholder groups, using a suite of professional formative evaluation tools that will inform the project learning and strategy development

Provide regular updates on the progress of the work and to attend quarterly Steering Group meetings of the Partnership, with allowances for additional contact when needed.

Help collate data and evaluation materials for interim reports and reviews that incorporate feedback from stakeholders and observations on key successes, outputs and improvement recommendations that will inform both the remaining development phase and the intended delivery phase.

Produce a summative evaluation report identifying successes, outputs, and outcomes against the development phase's key purposes and objectives.

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

We are looking for someone with:

Experience of undertaking evaluation of complex partnership programmes, ideally including direct experience of evaluation of National Lottery Heritage Fund projects;

Knowledge of the National Lottery Heritage Fund objectives;

Experience of facilitation and running participative workshops;

A broad knowledge and understanding of evaluation frameworks and tools and an understanding of how they can be adapted or developed to best fit the needs of this project;

Demonstrable knowledge of Welsh policies and practice in relation to wellbeing, public participation and natural heritage;

Experience of working in collaboration using online applications such as MS Teams and Sharepoint;

The ability to run a contract for the duration of the AFFF Development stage programme - concluding in early summer 2026;

Monitoring and evaluating of the project will ensure quality, understand impacts and beneficiaries, meet funder requirements, determine goal attainment, and identify strengths and weaknesses. It serves as a professional development tool, strengthens accountability, informs the legacy, and aids evidence-based advocacy.

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

N/a

4.3

Time Limits

Time-limit for receipt of completed tenders
    01-07-2024  Time  12:00

Estimated award date
 05-07-2024

4.5

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

EN  CY 

4.6

Tender Submission Postbox

The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

If you have any additional support or access requirements with your application, please contact:

neildunsire@nwwt.org.uk or call 01248 351541

(WA Ref:142076)

The buyer considers that this contract is suitable for consortia bidding.

5.2

Additional Documentation

5.3

Publication date of this notice

 07-06-2024

Coding

Commodity categories

ID Title Parent category
79419000 Evaluation consultancy services Business and management consultancy services

Delivery locations

ID Description
1012 Gwynedd
1011 Isle of Anglesey

Alert region restrictions

The buyer has restricted the alert for this notice to suppliers based in the following regions.

ID Description
There are no alert restrictions for this notice.

Document family

Notice details
Publication date:
07 June 2024
Deadline date:
15 July 2024 00:00
Notice type:
Contract Notice
Authority name:
North Wales Wildlife Trust
Publication date:
06 August 2024
Notice type:
Contract Award Notice
Authority name:
North Wales Wildlife Trust

About the buyer

Main contact:
neildunsire@nwwt.org.uk
Admin contact:
neildunsire@nwwt.org.uk
Technical contact:
N/a
Other contact:
neildunsire@nwwt.org.uk

Further information

Date Details
21/06/2024 14:27
Notice date(s) changed
The Deadline date was changed from 01/07/2024 12:00 to 15/07/2024 09:00.

Updated requirements detailed in the advert
21/06/2024 14:42
Further detail, option to extend contract + additional info required (methodology statement)
Corsydd Môn/Anglesey Fens for all Forever! is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund and The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. Thanks to National Lottery players we are seeking an evaluator for the project initially in the 2 year development phase, but with an option to extend that contract to cover an additional delivery phase (up to 5 years) if we are successful securing further funding.

To apply please upload a current CV, CVs, or organisation summary along with an outline of your proposed methodology (no more than 4 pages), these should be qualitive and quantitive and should include:
• Your chosen method for evaluation
• An outline of what groups would be included in the research
• How the methodology links with wider aims of the North Wales Wildlife Trust and of The National Heritage Lottery Fund
• Any ethical considerations
• How you will share the findings internally
• How we would communicate the findings to the public
• What will make the evaluation a success
• What if things do not go as well as expected?

Both the CV / organisation summary docs and the methodology doc should be uploaded via the Sell 2 Wales postbox.

The maximum funding allocation for this contract is: £12,000 + VAT

The evaluation and monitoring consultant will:

Provide facilitated support to the AFFF Project Manager and the Partnership to embed evaluation processes throughout the delivery of the development phase.

Work with the Partnership and Scheme Manager to continually monitor data to check whether a programme or project is reaching its goals and to generally assess how it is delivering against plans.

Produce an evaluation framework for the delivery phase of the project based on information gathered in this development phase.

Create and tailor quantitative and qualitive data capture tools to fit the project's needs.

Work with the partnership to ensure that quantitative data on demographics/socio-economic status for local population and target beneficiaries from appropriate /secondary sources is routinely collated and analysed alongside in relation to AFFF delivery.

Provide face-to-face ‘critical friend’ support throughout the delivery stage.

Ensure relevant data and evidence is being collected and analysed to meet National Lottery Heritage Fund requirements and the requirements of other funders as necessary.

Provide creative action-centred evaluation for delivery stage with stakeholder groups, using a suite of professional formative evaluation tools that will inform the project learning and strategy development

Provide regular updates on the progress of the work and to attend quarterly Steering Group meetings of the Partnership, with allowances for additional contact when needed.

Help collate data and evaluation materials for interim reports and reviews that incorporate feedback from stakeholders and observations on key successes, outputs and improvement recommendations that will inform both the remaining development phase and the intended delivery phase.

Produce a summative evaluation report identifying successes, outputs, and outcomes against the development phase's key purposes and objectives, by June 2025. To be included in the delivery phase bid.

Be willing to continue this work (for an additional fee) if NWWT are successful in securing delivery phase funding. The delivery phase will potentially run from 2026-2031.

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