Published date: 22 August 2019

This notice was replaced on 23 December 2019

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Awarded contract (published 23 December 2019)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Environmental services - 90700000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

tender_215430/793969

Published date

22 August 2019

Closing date

17 September 2019

Contract start date

1 October 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2020

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

Requirement
An evaluation of the Countryside Stewardship (CS) agreement scale monitoring project is required to understand the effectiveness and reliability of the CS baseline methodologies used, identify potential improvements and provide guidance for future surveying.

Objectives
1. Evaluate how CS baseline monitoring fits within the context of broader AES, species and environmental monitoring?
2. Evaluate CS baseline methods.
3. Evaluate the overarching design of CS baseline monitoring.
4. Evaluate the appropriateness of the data collection, data format and data storage.
5. Future improvements for CS monitoring and identify improvements which can be used to inform future Environment Land Management (ELM) baseline monitoring design and delivery.

More information

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About the buyer

Address

Defra
London
SW1P 3JR
England

Telephone

00

Email

network.procurement@defra.gsi.gov.uk