# Ground Preparation Framework Agreement

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [FORESTRY COMMISSION](/buyers/forestry-commission/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: E Dodd and Sons
- Award value: £2,265,000
- Tender value: £2,265,000
- Award date: 11 April 2016
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Contract start: 3 May 2016
- Contract end: 31 March 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 02e8d674-112c-4826-8cb2-8c2a622c67c3-98393
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-bbc1cefe-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

We have awarded a framework agreement for Ground Preparation of previously harvested sites of which the majority of work will be trench mound ditch & dollop to a uniform pattern of 2750 mounds per hectare\. In addition we require trench mound ditch and dollop to a number of lower densities, site drainage, brash raking, formation of access tracks and shooting mounds\. We are awarding this framework agreement for a period of four years with break points available at the end of years two and three\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/02e8d674-112c-4826-8cb2-8c2a622c67c3-98393)