Nursery Notification Scheme: Invitation to Quote
Invitation to Quote documentation for the Nursery Notification Scheme.
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The aim of the work being tendered is to provide the Forestry Commission with costed options for a Nursery Notification Scheme (NNS), which will inform UK seed suppliers and tree growers of forthcoming woodland creation and restocking projects, and allow them to prepare tree stock accordingly. The NNS will focus on forestry trees, will be developed from 2021, and will meet the needs of:
- trade associations representing major tree nurseries, smaller tree nurseries and tree seed suppliers, in order to provide sufficient visibility and certainty so that they can grow the types and quantities of trees that will be required
- major forestry contractors involved in woodland creation, the Forestry Commission and Defra, in order to ensure sufficient supply of the types and quantities of trees required to supply woodland creation and tree planting projects coming forward.
The period for the Invitation to Quote will open on Monday 11 January and will run until 5pm on Friday 22 January.
The Forestry Commission will be holding an information webinar for prospective applicants at 11.30am on Friday 15 January 2021.
Please contact steve.fowkes@forestrycommission.gov.uk to request the Invitation to Tender documentation and register for the webinar.
Background
Government has committed to planting 30,000ha of new woodlands across the UK each year by the end of this parliament. The £640m Nature for Climate Fund announced in the March 2020 budget will support these ambitions for tree planting in England.
The programme of work being developed to support the delivery of the Nature for Climate Fund has identified that to support government ambitions, there needs to be a significant increase in the UK production of tree planting material, to decrease the reliance on imports. This anticipated new woodland creation, alongside sustainable forest management of existing woodlands requiring restocking of harvested sites, will benefit from more accurate matching of supply and demand for seeds and trees.
The Nursery Notification Scheme (NNS) will inform UK seed suppliers and tree growers of forthcoming woodland creation and restocking projects and allow them to prepare tree stock accordingly.