Published date: 4 October 2019

Last edited date: 4 October 2019

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 16 October 2019

Contract summary

Industry

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Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£25,000 to £40,000

Procurement reference

SC190003

Published date

4 October 2019

Closing date

16 October 2019

Contract start date

1 November 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2020

Contract type

Supply 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

The Environment Agency wants to ensure that catchments in England are resilient to a range of pressures, both now and in the future. The Environment Agency is currently exploring how it can use resilience in a practical way and understand how we define and measure catchment resilience. Resilience might be an inherent property of or an aspiration for a catchment and might be measured by a catchments ability to recover or bounce back from a disturbance.

Resilience maybe framed according to the function(s) of the catchment or elimination (reduction) of problems. Pathways to resilience may include avoiding a disturbance, increasing resistance to a disturbance or enhancing recovery to the disturbance. It may be explored using single or multi-metric approaches or an assessment of the drivers of problems.

There are no well-defined measures of catchment resilience and this project is intended as a trial to understand how different properties of catchments make them more or less resilient to the prevailing pressures and the expected future pressures. The results are expected to identify transferable knowledge to improve resilience elsewhere and also to understand if this kind of approach is helpful for catchment managers.

This project is one of a number of studies exploring different aspects of resilience. The specific focus of this project is to explore the potential for identifying opportunities to increase resilience locally through investigations designed to elucidate the pressure-response relationship in catchments with real-world problems.

More information

Attachments

Additional text

To apply please respond to the attached Request for Quotation and associated documents. Email your response to matt.charlton@environment-agency.gov.uk. Tenders to be received no later than midday on Wednesday 16 October 2019.

About the buyer

Contact name

Dr Matt Charlton

Address

Environment Agency
Horizon House, Deanery Road
Bristol
BS1 5AH
England

Telephone

07584187531

Email

matt.charlton@environment-agency.gov.uk