Felixstowe Hydrocycle Ltd is an innovative, farmer led, water supply and management company working in partnership with the Environment Agency, the Local Authority and Drainage Board to bring sustainably sourced fresh water supplies onto the Felixstowe Peninsula. Felixstowe Hydrocycle Ltd has been formed by 5 local farmers to install a 12km pipeline to allow the recycling of drainage water back to farm reservoirs. The business has been successful in securing a 2Seas ERDF grant to help finance the project. This grant is called "FRESH 4 C'S" and in this Felixstowe Hydrocycle Ltd is partnered by Belgium and Dutch companies, as well as Suffolk County Council, Environmental Agency
What the buyer wrote
This contract covers the installation of a water transfer system from a lagoon close to an IDB drainage pump at the northern end of the Kings Fleet to reservoir filling hydrants on land between the Kings Fleet and Bucklesham. For this project Felixstowe Hydrocycle Ltd has been formed and is funded by five members of the local farming community and an EEC grant. Local authorities including Suffolk County Council, Anglian Water, IDB, Suffolk Wildlife, English Nature, and ESWAG have an interest in this scheme as a means to better use, to the benefit of the whole of the local community, land drainage water which would otherwise be lost to the sea. The system design comprises:- Twin abstractio…
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- What the buyer calls it
- Felixstowe Hydrocycle Ltd is an innovative, farmer led, water supply and management company working in partnership with the Environment Agency, the Local Authority and Drainage Board to bring sustainably sourced fresh water supplies onto the Felixstowe Peninsula. Felixstowe Hydrocycle Ltd has been formed by 5 local farmers to install a 12km pipeline to allow the recycling of drainage water back to farm reservoirs. The business has been successful in securing a 2Seas ERDF grant to help finance the project. This grant is called "FRESH 4 C'S" and in this Felixstowe Hydrocycle Ltd is partnered by Belgium and Dutch companies, as well as Suffolk County Council, Environmental Agency
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- works
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 14 Jun 2020
- Work ends
- 31 Jan 2021
Who the buyer named
John Partick was the named contact on this notice.