Published date: 5 April 2022

Last edited date: 5 April 2022

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Approach to market date: 4 July 2022

Contract summary

Industry

  • Environmental improvement works - 45262640

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West

Value of contract

£10,000

Procurement reference

tender_302265/1058515

Published date

5 April 2022

Approach to market date

4 July 2022

Contract start date

5 September 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Government has committed more than £750 million for a Nature for Climate Fund,
which includes programmes of peat restoration and tree planting. As part of this, Natural
England is delivering a competitive grant scheme; the Nature for Climate Peatland Grant
Scheme (NCPGS). The NCPGS will contribute to bringing landscape scale restorative
action to degraded upland and lowland peatlands across England over four years, from
2021 to 2025.
There are two key targets for the NCPGS, which are linked directly to the delivery of the
England Peat Action Plan. They are to:
- undertake restorative action on 35,000 ha of degraded peat in England by March 2025, putting the sites on a trajectory to recovery
- reduce emissions from peat by 9 Mt CO2e cumulatively by 2050

Through the NCPGS, the government intends to invest over £50 million in peat restoration by 2025. There are two separate grants in the NCPGS:
- Restoration Grants
- Discovery Grants

Restoration Grants fund capital works to restore peatland on a landscape scale. They can fund up to 75% of costs, and in exceptional cases up to 85%. The window for applications to the 2022 Restoration Grant is due to open in April and will run for 8 weeks.

You can find out more about the Restoration Grant in the 'NCPGS Restoration Grant Guide for Applicants', a copy of which is provided as an Annex of the Discovery Grant Invitation to Apply (ITA) pack. Final details of the 2023 Restoration Grant will be confirmed prior to the 2023 application window.

Discovery Grants fund work to unlock barriers to peatland restoration and prepare projects to apply for Restoration Grants in future rounds. It is expected that if you receive a Discovery Grant, you will bid into the final Restoration Grant round in 2023. Discovery Grants can cover up to 100% of costs.

Peatland restoration includes works to raise the water table or reinstate peat-forming vegetation. Barriers to restoration may be from any aspect of a project, such as:
- the physical and historic nature of peatland sites
- partnership working
- development and securing of private finance

This may include, but is not limited to, funding to:
- build capacity and capability in new or nascent peat partnerships
- engage new partners or landowners
- explore opportunities for private investment funding
- develop site understanding, including baseline monitoring, hydrological and ecological surveys, or historic environment assessments.

Funding timeline
The second window for Discovery Grant applications is due to open in May and run for 8
weeks. Discovery Grants awarded in late summer 2022 will be offered until March 2023.
This is to prepare projects for Restoration Grant applications in 2023.
There is no minimum or maximum limit to the size of projects: we anticipate applications of
up to £100,000 and the amount bid for should be proportionate to the expected planning
costs for a Restoration Grant project.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Catherine Hacker

Address

2 Marsham Street,
London
SW1P 4DF
England

Telephone

07557173521

Email

CATHERINE.HACKER@DEFRA.GOV.UK