Published date: 30 March 2023

This notice was replaced on 25 April 2023

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Awarded contract (published 25 April 2023)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

Location of contract

SW1P 3JR

Value of contract

£13,100

Procurement reference

CF-0052500D8d000003VQwdEAG

Published date

30 March 2023

Closing date

1 March 2023

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

9 March 2023

Contract end date

30 May 2023

Contract type

Not applicable

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 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is seeking to procure a Contractor to provide a set of criteria which will be used by the Collaboration of Offshore Wind Strategic Compensation (COWSC) programme to determine whether measures can be considered ecologically viable strategic compensation.

As the number of offshore wind farms increase, it is likely that it will become progressively more difficult to identify and deliver suitable compensatory measures on a project-by-project basis and/or
within individual site envelopes. To address this problem, the Government intends for developers to deliver Strategic Compensatory Measures across projects and organisations. This could include measures delivered by a group of developers or measures that can only be delivered by
Government (e.g., enhanced management of existing Marine Protected Areas or the designation of new Marine Protected Areas).

The Government intends to create a Library of Measures that will be available to developers when completing their consent applications to help them identify ecologically viable strategic compensation measures.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Producing a set of criteria to be used to determine whether measures can be considered ecologically viable strategic compensation

  • Awarded contract
  • Published 29 March 2023

Award information

Awarded date

9 March 2023

Contract start date

9 March 2023

Contract end date

30 May 2023

Total value of contract

£13,100

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Howell Marine Consulting

Address

23 Hauxley Links
Low Hauxley
Morpeth NE65 0JR

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

Yes

About the buyer

Contact name

Felicity Jowett

Address

Horizon House Deanery Road
Bristol
BS1 5AH
UK

Email

felicity.jowett@defra.gov.uk