Ruahine Forest Park Pest Control and Bait Station Maintenance Contract

Under the services of this contract all landowners/Occupiers within the Ruahine PCA who farm adjacent to the Ruahine Forest Park will pay $1.00 per hectare as their annual possum maintenance costs and the principal (HBRC) will pick up all other costs associated with this project. The contractor will invoice each landowner/occupier directly for their possum maintenance cost of $1.00 per hectare.

This project boundaries the Ruahine Forest Park on its western boundary, Horizons Regional Council on its southern boundary and the Ruahine Extension PCA on its northern boundary. The contractor will service all 1,662 bait stations within this project once with Double strength Brodifacoum, 213 ferafeed paste and 4 to 6 feratox pills per bait station.

All bait stations at time of servicing that need replacing will be replaced as well. The contractor will re-service all 958 bait stations within a 500-meter buffer of the Ruahine Forest Park a minimum of 9 weeks after the first service round. If the landowners wish to have their remaining bait stations serviced, this cost will be on the landowner.

The contractor will supply a full break down of cost and materials for this project. The Hawke�s Bay Regional Council will supply the contractor with the GPS�d coordinates of all bait station locations for this project. The Contractor will supply all materials, double strength brodifacoum, 213 ferafeed paste and feratox.

HBRC requires that all bait stations be maintained in a safe and useable standard, replacing bait stations and loosening brackets where required. The council will carry out a site visit with the contractor to ensure that all work undertaken meets the required standard. The contractor will be responsible for obtaining a MOH consent for this project.

A copy of the MOH application and consent will be supplied to the principal prior to starting this project. All track logs, bait stations and signage locations will be forward to the principal electronically in map source format (gdb and GPX) format at the completion of each service round. The contractor shall submit a maintenance report annually, this report will outline any ongoing recommendations for this project.

The contractor will set up a complaint register which will be forwarded to HBRC at the completion of this project. All landowner enquiries and concerns are to be dealt with as and when received by the contractor.