Published date: 9 January 2017

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: 13 January 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research consultancy services - 73210000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£1

Procurement reference

ENV6001010R - ENVUrban Demonstrators - UWM

Published date

9 January 2017

Closing date

13 January 2017

Contract start date

25 January 2017

Contract end date

31 March 2017

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Not applicable

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Collaborative and integrated management of the urban water environment can yield multiple benefits including reduced flood risk, improved water quality and enhanced community well-being through engagement with green-blue spaces. With the growth of catchment partnerships across England, the framework now exists to drive forward such collaborative working and with it cost-effective delivery. More needs to be done, however, to engage certain key stakeholders within the urban environment, particularly 'local authorities' (Local Government, planners, transport departments, Local Enterprise Partnerships etc.) to convey not only the benefits to them of such collaborative engagement but also the importance of sustainable management of water resources to economic growth and regeneration.

The catchment based approach (CaBA) provides the mechanism to undertake local authority engagement at a national scale. Backed with targeted high quality communications resources that capture the growing number of collaborative urban delivery case studies, such engagement could encompass a series of regional workshops.

These four to five workshops would bring together key stakeholders, including local authorities, to drive knowledge exchange and the building of capacity across a range of issues including strategic targeting and design of interventions, opportunities for collaboration, current barriers to delivery and funding. These collaborative workshops and accompanying guidance literature would be complemented by direct engagement with both national (e.g. LGA) and umbrella organisations such as CaBA urban working group. Roll-out of the national engagement programme would fully exploit the expertise currently provided by the select few local authorities who are currently engaged with the catchment based approach.

These workshops will be written up to provide case studies to illustrate the benefits from this work. The work will be delivered in liaison with the CaBA urban working group. The benefits from the previous workshops have been written up and are available here: http://urbanwater-eco.services/project/urban-demo-workshops/

This fixed contract would deliver 4-5 workshops and disseminate the outputs. Work would start in January and be completed by the end of March 2017.

More information

Attachments

Additional text

To apply please respond to the attached Invitation to Quote and associated documents. Instructions on what information we require you to provide is in Section 4 of the following Request for Quotation document.

Your response should be returned to the following email address by 5pm on the 13th January 2017 - antonia.scarr@environment-agency.gov.uk

Please confirm, by email, whether you intend to submit a quote. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me. Mrs Antonia Scarr antonia.scarr@environment-agency.gov.uk.

About the buyer

Contact name

Antonia Scarr

Address

Environment Agency
Ergon House, Horseferry Road
London
SW1P 2A
England

Telephone

07867905126

Email

antonia.scarr@environment-agency.gov.uk

Website

www.gov.uk/environment-agency