Published date: 17 September 2021

Last edited date: 4 November 2021

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


Closing: 28 July 2021, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£500,000

Procurement reference

tender_271229/998439

Published date

17 September 2021

Closing date

28 July 2021

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

13 September 2021

Contract end date

12 March 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

This project concerns the design and delivery of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) Pilot. The SFI is one of the schemes being developed within the Environmental Land Mangement (E.L.M.) Programme.

Piloting is key to ensuring that we develop an E.L.M. programme capable of delivering against its objectives, as specified in the E.L.M. Outline Business Case (OBC). Piloting supports these objectives in several ways, enabling us to:

- Test and refine processes at scale, ensuring that they are suitable for Full Roll-out. Pilot monitoring will inform several strands of scheme design and development, including live changes to the user service; scheme policy design and delivery; and communications to pilot participants and wider stakeholders.

- Explore different aspects of the user and administrator experience in the context of a fully operational scheme, thereby contributing to co-design of a final preferred solution.

- Build-on proof of concept work via the E.L.M. Tests & Trials (T&T), triangulating conclusions from T&T projects and testing them on a different cohort

Farmers were invited to join the SFI pilot via an initial Expression of Interest (EOI), launched on 15th March 2021, with pilot agreements going live from 1st October 2021. The SFI pilot will run through to the launch of the full Environmental Land Management programme on 1st October 2024.

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Award information

Awarded date

9 September 2021

Contract start date

13 September 2021

Contract end date

12 March 2025

Total value of contract

£467,575

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

ICF Consulting Services Ltd

Address

Riverscape, 10 Queen Street Place, London, Greater London, EC4R 1BE, UNITED KINGDOM

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Elena Harris

Address

17 Nobel House
London
SW1P 3JR
England

Email

elena.harris@defra.gov.uk