Published date: 30 September 2025

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


Closing: 24 September 2025, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Social research services - 79315000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£93,105

Procurement reference

CF-0544800D8d000003VQwdEAG

Published date

30 September 2025

Closing date

24 September 2025

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

25 September 2025

Contract end date

30 June 2026

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Authority are looking for a collaborative research partnership with expertise across the environmental, social and economic challenges that face Landscape Recovery (LR).  
The partnership will tackle research at a scheme level through collaborative research-policy-practice partnerships. This will draw on the vast data that are already being collected by the LR projects as part of their Monitoring and Evaluation requirements and enable learning from the experiences of the varied stakeholders.
There is no competition for the research topic area expertise offered by The Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery (LCNR) at University of Oxford

Award information

Awarded date

25 September 2025

Contract start date

25 September 2025

Contract end date

30 June 2026

Total value of contract

£93,105

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

University of Oxford

Address

Research Services
Wellington Square,
Oxford OX1 2JD

Reference

None

About the buyer

Contact name

Lindy Macnamee

Address

17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR
UK

Telephone

01392661000

Email

lindy.macnamee@defra.gov.uk