Environmental monitoring other than for construction (Норвегия - Тендер #48062773)

Norwegian breeding birds monitoring – Monitoring 2024 - 2025

The procurement concerns the coordination of a contact network with bird observers for Norwegian breeding birds monitoring 2024 and 2025. The procurement also includes bird registrations by data collection, reports, and quality assurance via the internet to a national database at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research.

The procurement concerns the coordination of a contact network with bird observers for Norwegian breeding birds monitoring 2024 and 2025. The work involves follow-up of a national network of 492 fixed assessment areas that were established in 2005-2013 with the goal of registering and reporting at least 85% of the assessment areas a year. Field work is mainly carried out in the period from the end of May until the beginning of July. The counts will be carried out by counting birds for 5 minutes at each of a maximum of 20 counting points for each area. The procurement also includes data collection, reports, and quality assurance via the internet to a national database at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research.

The Norwegian Environment Agency intends to enter into a contract with BirdLife Norge for coordination and data collection in the Norwegian breeding birds monitoring programme. It is a prerequisite for the project that there is very large capacity to register birds nationwide (c.f. 492 assessment areas) at the same time (approx. from the end of May until the beginning of July). Each locality where birds shall be registered at a maximum of 20 counting points in the same visit, has a 14 day period in which the registrations can be made. Many of the assessment areas are difficult to access. All counting shall be carried out at the same time by people who have good competence in recognising birds by appearance and birdsong.g With our knowledge of the market, BirdLife Norge, with its network of bird observers distributed over the whole of Norway, is the only real actor that has sufficient competence and local knowledge to carry out the bird registrations. There is also a responsibility for training the observers so as to ensure uniform execution over the whole of Norway. Based on the above, we believe that this procurement can only be made at one supplier in the market, c.f. the public procurement regulations, §13-4b.