Published date: 8 September 2021

Last edited date: 10 September 2021

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 8 October 2021, 10am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research consultancy services - 73210000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£400,000 to £800,000

Procurement reference

tender_283224/995749

Published date

8 September 2021

Closing date

8 October 2021

Closing time

10am

Contract start date

19 October 2021

Contract end date

28 October 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Defra's E.L.M. requires provision of two separate flexible contracts with suppliers with agricultural and ecological expertise required for
1). developing payment rates and,
2). the independent verification of the calculated rates.
The tender will establish 2 separate call-off contracts for Lot-1 (consisting of sub lot-1A and Lot-1B) of the tender and Lot-2 of the tender.
The separate contracts are to assure independent objectivity of the verification process in lot-2.
Both contracts will each be for a maximum duration of 4 years in total (2-years initially, followed by of 2 possible 1-year extensions).
A high-level description of the lots are as follows:

LOT-1: Payments Data, Calculations and bespoke ad hoc research
- Lot-1A) Technical support for the calculation of E.L.M. payment rates consisting of,
- The production of new building blocks that are needed for E.L.M actions, with clear sources of data and assumptions. Primarily this will be national averages, but some local/bespoke building blocks will be required.
- Generate assumptions, in collaboration with Defra specialists, needed for payment calculations on how an E.L.M action affects a particular farming system.
- Construct payment calculations, using our payments calculator and ensure our model can be scaled up in size for new payment calculations.

- Lot-1B) Provide support to E.L.M. payment policy development through bespoke research projects, as specified and agreed between E.L.M. and the supplier throughout the contract.

LOT-2: Verification of Payments Data (calculated by the contractor awarded lot-1A).
An independent consultancy to provide assurance on the data, assumptions and payment calculations produced in lot-1A) to ensure they stand up to scrutiny from the main bodies interested in the technicalities of our payment calculations.

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The Defra Commercial team will host a market engagement event on Tuesday the 14th of September at 11:05am - 12:05pm.
The meeting link is as follows: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:[EMAILMATCH_0]/0?context={"Tid":"770a2450-0227-4c62-90c7-4e38537f1102","Oid":"423bde3e-85a5-4b36-a590-2aa9350a5763"}

About the buyer

Address

DEF 2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
England

Email

jonathan.rosenfeld@defra.gov.uk