Published date: 9 July 2024
Last edited date: 18 July 2024
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Contract summary
Industry
Research consultancy services - 73210000
Location of contract
United Kingdom
Value of contract
£40,000
Procurement reference
ENVWLB00281R(a)
Published date
9 July 2024
Closing date
2 August 2024
Closing time
5pm
Contract start date
19 August 2024
Contract end date
6 December 2024
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Competitive quotation (below threshold)
The buyer selects a group of potential suppliers to invite to tender.
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
The Environment Agency's National Framework for Water Resources explores England's long-term water needs, setting out the scale of action needed to ensure resilient supplies and an improved water environment. By 2050, if no action is taken, 5 billion extra litres of water per day will be needed for public water supply alone to address future pressures.
To prepare for such changes in water availability in the future, water companies are looking at ways to improve public water supplies (PWS) and reduce demand. The National Framework has also moved us towards strategic regional planning, where five regional groups made up of water companies and other sector water users form regional plans to build water resources resilience.
Non-PWS abstractors face the same pressures as water companies to meet future demands, whether from population growth, new developments, or our changing climate. We need to ensure water is available for new housing developments, food security, the technology sector, low carbon power generation and industry to secure economic growth, mitigate water scarcity and drought. We must also ensure that water is used sustainably so that the environment is protected.
The National Framework has a renewed focus on improving multi-sector planning for future water needs. So far, aside from PWS, the focus has been on the agriculture and energy sectors due to a natural progression of previous water resources planning and work. Now we need to take stock of other water using sectors to review their vulnerability to water scarcity and improve their level of resilience.
This project aims to independently engage key water using sectors and assess the impact of water scarcity on each of those sectors.
This will:
• effectively support the aim of the National Framework for Water Resources;
• aid multi-sector planning and local engagement of non-PWS sectors;
• help ensure non-PWS sectors are appropriately targeted and engaged with the water resources planning process;
• provide a picture of the challenges different sectors face in a changing water environment.
About the buyer
Contact name
Izzy Ashcroft
Address
Lateral
Leeds
LS11 9AT
England
Telephone
02030258796
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