Published date: 18 December 2020

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


Closing: 27 November 2020, 12am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research consultancy services - 73210000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£35,600

Procurement reference

tender_254828/913318

Published date

18 December 2020

Closing date

27 November 2020

Closing time

12am

Contract start date

18 December 2020

Contract end date

26 March 2021

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

Defra's Environmental Land Management scheme will need to calculate payment rates for farmers, foresters and other land managers undertaking environmental activities. This requires new data and the development of evidence based-assumptions on income from agricultural activities and additional costs incurred by farmers, foresters and other land managers.
These will form what this specification refers to as the 'building blocks' of the payment rate calculation. A desk-based exercise is required to collate the necessary data, forecast the values, and provide clear documentation of sources and assumptions on how these values were arrived at.

To calculate payments rates for the 2024 environmental land management scheme, we want to build an in-house payments model, with complete transparency in payment calculations and the ability to refine them as the scheme develops. The building blocks data will ensure that payments rates are an accurate and up-to-date reflection of the income foregone and costs incurred by land managers for undertaking environmental activities.
To do this, we need to update the building blocks from the Countryside Stewardship payment rates from 2013, which are now out of date. We also need new evidence consistent with current market data and forecasted for an appropriate period.
We also want to improve and enhance our understanding of the data and underpinning assumptions sitting behind the building blocks, so that these can be used optimally in setting the final payment rates.

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Award information

Awarded date

11 December 2020

Contract start date

18 December 2020

Contract end date

26 March 2021

Total value of contract

£35,600

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

The Anderson Centre

Address

Old Bell House, 2 Nottingham Street, Melton Mowbray, Liecestershire. LE13 1NW

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

17 Noble House
London
SW1P 3JR
England

Email

mark.chamberlain@defra.gov.uk