DfI Rivers Directorate Framework for Watercourse Maintenance
- Buyer
- DfI Transport and Road Asset Management (TRAM)
- Value
- £13,100,000
- Closes
- 10 December 2026
- Where
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
The Department for Infrastructure's Rivers Directorate is setting up a four-year framework for watercourse maintenance and flood defence work across Northern Ireland. The work is split into five geographic lots, and each lot will have one primary supplier and one reserve supplier who take on individual jobs called off under measured term contracts.
What the buyer wants
• Be appointed as the primary or reserve supplier for one or more of the five geographic lots (Lisburn and Greater Belfast, Coleraine, Omagh, Armagh and Fermanagh). • Carry out watercourse maintenance, riverbank and flood defence maintenance, scrub clearance, tree felling or removal, provision of labour and plant, and treatment of aquatic weed and invasive species. • Complete individual works orders of up to £250,000 (excluding VAT) over the four-year term, with a possible extension of up to 12 further months.
Lots
- WME1 (Lisburn and Greater Belfast)
- WMW1 (Coleraine)
- WMW2 (Omagh)
- WME2 (Armagh)
- WMW3 (Fermanagh)
Requirements
What could rule a small business out: The notice does not set out eligibility criteria, but the scale is significant: each lot is worth between £2.16m and £2.76m (excluding VAT) over four years, with individual orders of up to £250,000, so a small firm would need the capacity and financial standing to deliver work at that scale and to be chosen as one of only two suppliers for its lot.
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How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
Where to apply
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Questions about this tender? Email the buyer at TRAMprocurement@infrastructure-ni.gov.uk.
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