The Birds Unit, of the Scientific Advice and Research Directorate of the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) intends to invite submissions from companies/organisations and sole traders with relevant expertise and capability to establish a multi-supplier framework agreement for the delivery and provision of a variety of bird surveys, monitoring, and research/guidance.

delivery of surveys or monitoring programmes, with surveys undertaken by the contractor’s professional field staff, NPWS staff, and/or skilled volunteers; • The design and delivery of specialised bird surveys or sampling strategies (e.g. using drones, thermal imagers, stratified sampling techniques

, deployment of GPS-tracking telemetry devices, conservation/detection dogs, etc.); • Desk- and/or field-based studies to include some or all of the following aspects: the design of surveys, monitoring programmes or research projects; colle