CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

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Authority Name and Address

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Address from which documentation may be obtained

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Completed documents must be returned to:

2 Contract Details

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Title

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

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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.

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Notice Coding and Classification

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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

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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

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Type of Procedure

Single stage

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Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

N/a

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Time Limits

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

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Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

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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.

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Additional Documentation

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Publication date of this notice