Published date: 27 October 2021

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 4 August 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Environmental services - 90700000

  • Environmental management - 90710000

Location of contract

SW1P 3JR

Value of contract

£205,638

Procurement reference

tender_279919/1009074

Published date

27 October 2021

Closing date

4 August 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

4 October 2021

Contract end date

30 September 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Background
Defra, working with agencies and MHCLG, is delivering an innovative nutrient trading pilot project in the Solent area over two years (2020-2022). The Solent is home to a range of nationally and internationally important habitats and bird species for which it has been designated. However, many of these sites are in unfavourable condition due to excess nutrients (particularly nitrogen) in the water from a range of sources, including agriculture and wastewater. NE has advised local planning authorities that demonstrating 'nutrient neutrality' (i.e. zero net impact on nitrogen pollution of the protected sites for 80+ years) is a way of allowing development to proceed, while ensuring it does not further damage the condition of the protected site features. This can be achieved through various means, including by securing proportionate nitrogen reduction elsewhere in the catchment by taking land out of intensive agricultural use and creating habitat for wildlife. NE has published a 'nutrient neutral' method and calculator and actively advises local authorities and developers.

There is an estimated backlog of at least 5,500 houses (at least partly due to nitrogen pollution) across the Solent catchment awaiting planning permission; a lack of offsite mitigation has meant some developments have struggled to demonstrate 'nutrient neutrality'. The Authority is piloting a nutrient trading process to enable developers and local planning authorities in need of nitrogen pollution mitigation solutions to connect via an online platform with farmers and land managers able to provide such solutions. For example, farmers who are willing to take some of their land out of intensive agricultural production and commit it to woodland or wetland for at least 80 years. The pilot, funded through Government's Shared Outcomes Fund, will test the feasibility and cost effectiveness of this approach, using a trading process, and explore how multiple benefits for people and nature

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Trading Platform Contract for Solent Nutrient Trading Pilot Project

  • Opportunity
  • Published 14 July 2021

Attachments

Award information

Awarded date

31 August 2021

Contract start date

4 October 2021

Contract end date

30 September 2022

Total value of contract

£205,638

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Wessex Water Ltd, (trading as "EnTrade")

Address

Claverton Down Road, Claverton, Bath. Bath & North East Somerset, BA2 7WW

Reference

Companies House number: 02366633

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Defra

Address

Nobel House, 17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR
England

Telephone

00

Email

DGCEnquiries@defra.gov.uk

Website

http://defra.bravosolutions.co.uk