Published date: 21 March 2019

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 23 January 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Environmental services - 90700000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£79,975

Procurement reference

tender_195532/754750

Published date

21 March 2019

Closing date

23 January 2019

Contract start date

22 February 2019

Contract end date

30 September 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund (CSFF) provides funding for individuals or organisations (e.g. a farmer or NGO/Private Company) to bring farmers, foresters and other land managers together to work cooperatively for environmental improvements at the landscape scale, within a defined area. This is an integrated cooperative approach that can cover land under existing Agri-environment and forestry/woodland agreements, common land and land not currently covered by a scheme. It builds on the principles of partnership working to deliver environmental benefits, as demonstrated by various initiatives, including farm clusters and the farmer-led Nature Improvement Area.


1) To review and test the proposed monitoring and evaluation framework and indicators developed in the draft CSFF Monitoring and Evaluation Phase 1 report.
2) To carry out a data collation exercise of all facilitation fund data, to include FF plans, applications, CS priorities, annual and quarterly reports and CS and Agri-Environment scheme agreements and options.
3) To apply the finalised monitoring and evaluation framework to carry out an analysis across of all 98 groups in receipt of CSFF funding, and the CS and Agri-environment scheme applications and agreements resulting from those groups.
4) To carry out a more detailed evaluation and analysis including spatial analysis and mapping on a selection of 26 groups as case studies. The case study selection will be agreed with NE to cover themes such as resource protection. The evaluation will also include an online survey to gather additional social and economic data.

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Award information

Awarded date

22 February 2019

Contract start date

4 March 2019

Contract end date

30 September 2019

Total value of contract

£79,975

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Fera Science Ltd

Address

Sand Hutton, York, North Yorkshire, YO41 1LZ, UNITED KINGDOM

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Natural England
Peterborough
PE1 1NG
England

Telephone

00

Email

supplier.enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk