RIV_2600432 Berm transition asset maintenance

Between 2021 and 2026, CRC installed more than 250,000 native plants into strategic riverine sites across the region. These plantings have established quickly with many in an excellent position to continue growing well into the 2026 season. This contract seeks to employ a supplier to continue spray maintenance and upkeep of our planted assets. If works can be delivered and reported as specified then following successful contract review, the work will be extended for an additional year. This contract will be awarded in three schedules: Southern, Central and Northern sites. A supplier may respond to all schedules or select schedules. The contract may be awarded to different suppliers for the northern, central or southern schedules. Our assets are a series of extensive native plant installations placed beneath and near the canopy of flood protection trees and in scour bays on the berm spaces managed by CRC. They are located amongst many other assets including flood protection vegetation, stop banks, groynes, access tracks, fences and gates. All of this will need to be navigated in the delivery of this work. Our plantings are intentionally structured to get both the best growth out of the planted units as well as facilitating recruitment of wild native plants into the asset. It is intended that in several years our assets will blend into the surrounding areas with wild seedlings moving both into and out of them. Furthermore, they will provide the first examples of structured native flood protection in functional arrangements in New Zealand. Monitoring and observation will continue to assess their performance in years to come.