Department of Housing Local Government and Heritage

This service will provide assistance to NPWS regional staff with extinguishing fires and with water provision. The successful tenderer will be expected to give priority and precedence to the requirements of the NPWS in the case of firefighting. They will be required to coordinate with NPWS staff and other firefighting bodies as appropriate in order to protect members of the public, nature and assets under the management of the NPWS. A Bambi bucket can be provided by the NPWS if required. It is expected that, due to flight restrictions, firefighting will be limited to daylight hours only. Standby is required 7 days a week. Core standby times are expected to cover the majority of daylight hours, e.g. at least a standard 8 hour day. Response time should be within 30 minutes of call out max during core stand-by times. (i.e. 30 minutes from call-out to being in the air) Response times should be less than 120 minutes of call out in daylight hours outside these core stand-by times. (i.e. 120 minutes from call-out to being in the air)

Expert Field Support for NPWS Birds Unit's Monitoring and Research Programmes

The purpose of this request for quotation is to procure a specialist survey of the Shetland Pondweed Potamogeton rutilus in Kindrum Lough, Co. Donegal, and to conduct preliminary searches for the species in other suitable coastal lakes in the county. Potamogeton rutilus was discovered in Kindrum Lough in mid-August 2025 (N.F. Stewart, pers. comm.). This was the first record for the species in Ireland. Potamogeton rutilus is a submerged macrophyte of unpolluted, mesotrophic (i.e. moderate-alkalinity) lakes that occurs in Scotland and across northern Europe (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Poland etc.) (Preston, 2026; Schou et al., 2023).

The purpose of this request for quotation is to procure a specialist survey of aquatic plants in marl lakes and turloughs in the Burren area of Co. Clare and south-east Galway. The aim is to improve recording of aquatic plants in these habitats, generally, and to target specific rare species, particularly Nitella tenuissima, in order to further elucidate their ecological requirements. The survey will target known sites for Nitella tenuissima, as well as other potential sites for the species. It will combine revisits to marl lake and turlough sites studied by Roden et al. (2020), Goodwillie (1992) and others, with exploration of smaller lakes and pools that have no previous records for aquatic plants. Surveyors may also target other freshwater habitats in the study area, particularly karst streams and rivers.

The purpose of this request for quotation is to procure a specialist pilot study of the vegetation of the Habitats Directive Annex I lake habitat, Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains (Littorelletalia uniflorae), EU habitat code 3110.

The purpose of this request for tender is to procure a specialist monitoring survey of the Habitats Directive Annex I lake habitat Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp., EU habitat code 3140.

The Department is seeking to procure expert project management and other professional services for different elements of the management, conservation and restoration of the protected raised bog and blanket bog networks across Ireland. The successful applicant will have responsibility for managing several sites designing, preparing for and overseeing restoration infrastructure works and associated stakeholder engagement and consultation.

Marsh Fritillary Survey South-western Ireland

The Department is seeking to procure expert project management and other professional services for different elements of the management, conservation and restoration of the protected raised bog and blanket bog networks across Ireland. The successful applicant will have responsibility for managing several sites designing, preparing for and overseeing restoration infrastructure works and associated stakeholder engagement and consultation.

The LIFE on Machair Project of Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, is looking for suitable person to protect breeding waders on machair habitat, through the Nest Protection Officer (NPO/Predation Risk Management) role. This CFT relates to Nest Protection in the three different operational areas of Lot 1. Donegal, Lot 2. North Mayo and Achill, and Lot 3. South Mayo and Connemara. The aim of the nest protection programme is to minimise predation of wader eggs and chicks to thus facilitate the maintenance and recovery of breeding wader populations in project sites.