NRW upcoming contracts - Procurement pipeline 2025-26
| Category | Contract Title | Brief Description of the requirement | Expected award date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Operations | Forest Surveys- Production, Thinning, Tree Planting Density and Attribute Surveys | Production and Thinning Surveys- Valuation of clearfell crops for timber sales including boundary marking. Tree Planting density survey- monitoring of restocking at year 1 and 5. Attribute Survey- rolling survey of year 20 crops across the WGWE. |
04/07/2025 |
| Land Management | Arboricultural, Chainsaw Services and Tree Safety Framework 2024 to 2028 | Framework to provide all aspects of tree surgery work within the land managed by Natural Resources Wales | 12/07/2025 |
| Corporate Services | Parliamentary Agents Framework | Ability to be able to instruct Parliamentary Agents in relation to Parliamentary, legislative interpretation and related issues, particularly but not exclusively in relation to legislation specific to Wales. | 02/07/2025 |
| Forest Operations | Services relating to overhead powerlines | Management of powerlines over timber haulage routes in forestry | 04/10/2025 |
| Facilities and Assets | Purchase of Modular buildings | Replacement of two porta cabin buildings at Tan Lan | 30/09/2025 |
| Land Management | Peatlands Restoration Framework 2025 | Development of a purchasing framework for Peatland restoration groundworks. This will replace the current framework that comes to an end in December 2024 | 06/07/2025 |
| Land Management | Land Management Framework 2026-2030 | The purpose of this framework is to provide All Wales land management teams with the resource to manage the general maintenance programme of work predominantly within NRW managed land (local forestry areas, recreational areas, visitor centres and NNR’s). This framework could also be used for NRW funded projects if appropriate. This is for low value, planned and reactive maintenance work that is being carried out by different teams at their different locations throughout Wales. The contractors will be required to carry out a range of activities in different areas of the NRW estate, and possibly other non-NRW land if required. These can include forestry areas, recreational areas, Visitor centres, National Nature Reserves, and land managed by NRW. | 20/01/2026 |
| Instrumentation, Monitoring Equipment and Services | Fisheries Monitoring Equipment Framework 2025 - 2029 | Purchase through various lots of monitoring equipment for fisheries monitoring across Wales | 01/11/2025 |
| Corporate Services | Regulatory/Auditing Training Framework | To development and deliver a range of training courses for NRW Regulatory staff to undertake Audits of externally managed sites to ensure they comply with regulation and legislation. Must have the ability to update and refresh course content in line with changes in legislation. | 01/05/2025 |
| Corporate Services | First Aid Contract | Framework for First Aid training | 01/04/2026 |
| Corporate Services | 4x4 Driver framework | Staff who use 4x4 vehicles for work need training in on and off road to ensure safety | 04/01/2027 |
| Instrumentation, Monitoring Equipment and Services | Topographic Survey Kit | This procurement exercise is to purchase new Topographic survey kit to support flood asset data improvements for North and South West flood teams. It will replace 10 year old poor performing kit in the North, and bring onboard the latest techniques and technology. | 18/07/2025 |
| Environmental and Marine Services | Development Planning Framework Agreement | Provide expert technical advice to NRW's Development Planning Advice Service to inform our responses as statutory consultee to the planning application, IC, NSIP and development plan processes (and associated environmental assessments). In addition; develop and deliver guidance and training to support delivery of our statutory consultee role. | 01/09/2025 |
| Environmental and Marine Services | Wales Air Quality Incident Response Monitoring Service | Supply of the Air Quality Monitoring Service in Wales, to support the work of the Wales Air Quality Cell (WAQC). The WAQC, in specified incidents, facilitates the co-ordination, collection, collation and interpretation of air quality data to inform action to protect public health and the environment. | 31/01/2026 |
| Fleet Management | Fleet Plant & Equipment SIMAR/Sell 2 Wales/90927 | Provide the Service, Inspection, Maintenance & Repair of NRW Plant & Equipment assets | 15/06/2026 |
| Laboratory Services | NRWAS Fume Extraction and LEV - Inspection and Maintenance Contract | 4 year contract required for the annual test and inspection of fume cupboards, LEV, and extraction systems at NRW Analytical Services. Contract will include annual remedial works/maintenance, biennial deep clean, supply and fitting of filters as required, and breakdown call-outs, including spare parts. | 01/11/2025 |
| Laboratory Services | Laboratory Consumables | Laboratory consumables for routine analysis. | 01/06/2026 |
| Laboratory Services | Framework for the purchasing, servicing and repair of Hand Held meters and Water Quality Sondes | Tender for the framework for the purchasing of consumables/chemicals/instrumentation for Hand Held Meters and Water Quality Sondes. Previously we have used the EA framework but this FW does not support our requirements now at the laboratory. | 01/07/2026 |
| Corporate Services | Wellbeing Initiatives for NRW staff | We want a supplier to be able to provide wellbeing initiatives for staff such as wellbeing, mental health etc. | 16/06/2025 |
| Corporate Services | Consultancy for Business Transformation | Wide ranging consultancy required for Business Transformation | 02/06/2025 |
| Laboratory Services | Specialist Analytical Services for NRW | Contract for analyses outsourced to a third-party laboratory. Analysis required by Freshwater and Marine Monitoring programmes, including Biota and Sediment, which cannot be delivered internally by NRWAS due to scale or complexity. | 01/10/2026 |
| ICT | Customer PLATFORM Delivery Services | Find a partner to help deliver a customer platform, starting with Marine licencing and expanding | 01/07/2025 |
| Land Management | Inspection of Tips in Land Hazards and Spoil Tips Wales | To provide routine inspection currently know land hazards and spoil tips within the South Wales Land in our care and provide inspection and categorization on spoil tips as found by ongoing mapping programme | 01/10/2025 |
| Hydrometry & Telemetry | All Wales Hydrometry and Telemetry Site Maintenance Framework | All aspects of site maintenance of hydrometric and telemetry sites across Wales divided into 2 Lots ( North and South) | 01/04/2026 |
| Laboratory Services | Purchase of 3 GC analysers | Purchase of 3 GC analysers | 19/05/2025 |
| Forest Operations | Direct Production harvesting services | This framework is required to allow FO to acquire timber harvesting services across Wales. It should be broad and allow all types of harvesting, enabling FO teams to tailor the services tendered for around the constraints/specification of the felling coupe. | 11/02/2026 |
As part of our transparency and open data standards we publish a procurement pipeline to assist suppliers in planning and preparing for forthcoming procurements.
All requirements will be advertised through the Sell2Wales website.
The pipeline is reviewed every 6 months and published dates may be subject to changed and information is indicative only.
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