Published date: 25 January 2018

This notice was replaced on 26 January 2018

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 26 January 2018)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Business analysis consultancy services - 72221000

  • Project management consultancy services - 72224000

  • Miscellaneous business and business-related services - 79900000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

tender_158617/646434

Published date

25 January 2018

Closing date

13 November 2017

Contract start date

13 November 2017

Contract end date

31 March 2018

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

To take an innovative Landscape Exchange Networks (LENS) approach to delivering NE's objectives to restore ecosystem health to the Hampshire Avon catchment.
The specific objectives are to:
- Identify business interests and the motivation for those businesses to invest in the ecosystem health of the Hampshire Avon
- Establish a business network within the Hampshire Avon landscape that will bring about both the resources to deliver the restoration of ecosystem health and the long term cultural shift in the ways businesses operate that will reduce their supply chain impacts on the Natural Capital of the river for the long term.
- Produce a joint development plan for the core businesses to invest in the natural environment of the Hampshire Avon catchment.
- Establish a framework for this business network to actively engage with the Hampshire Avon Partnership that is primarily composed of government, NGO interests and water companies.

These objectives will be delivered by trialling an operational phase of the LENS approach (developed by 3Keel and Nestle to Proof of Concept stage in the Eden catchment in Cumbria and the Cam Ely and Ouse catchment in Cambridgeshire and further developed by David Burton NE) enabling the approach to be co-developed by NE and adopted as a mainstream government incentive in the Defra group post Brexit programmes for resilient landscapes and the farmed environment.

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About the buyer

Address

Natural England
Peterborough
PE1 1NG
England

Telephone

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Email

Supplier.enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk