Published date: 10 October 2025

Open opportunity - This means that the contract is currently active, and the buying department is looking for potential suppliers to fulfil the contract.


Closing: 24 October 2025, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

  • Financial and insurance services - 66000000

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

    • Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security - 79000000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£50,000

Procurement reference

NTC F3

Published date

10 October 2025

Closing date

24 October 2025

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

10 November 2025

Contract end date

18 March 2026

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

BACKGROUND
Nature Towns and Cities is a coalition of organisations (National Trust, Natural England, and National Lottery Heritage Fund) working together to inspire, incentivise, and support UK towns and cities to take ambitious action for urban green space. Our aim is to help millions more people enjoy time in nature close to home, in greener, thriving towns and cities. We want more urban areas to use nature recovery and nature-based solutions to tackle health inequalities and climate change, and to put nature at the heart of communities to grow their prosperity, connection and resilience.
This commission sits within the Nature Finance workstream of Nature Towns and Cities. Nature Towns and Cities is looking to support Local Authorities and their partners in accessing private funding. Specifically, through developing a marketplace of tokenised urban greening interventions - starting with Urban Tree Tokens - supported by an urban greening code and registry.
SCOPE OF THE WORK
Nature Towns and Cities holds a draft code - an adaptation of BSI Flex 701 - for tokenising urban greening interventions, and a methodology specifically for urban tree tokens. This research is seeking to test and refine the code through stakeholder engagement, and to understand what the governance, structuring and operations of a code and associated marketplace and registry should look like, resulting in the production of a governance and operations report, (including summary and recommended strawman code and registry governance and operations options and mapping of code, registry and marketplace responsibilities/roles), marketplace governance eligibility criteria and governance framework, and refined Urban Greening Code.
INFORMATION TO BE RETURNED
Submissions should include the following information:
· Outline of your proposed approach to the project, including details of methodology, proposed outputs, timeline and high level risk log.
· Description of your relevant experience and abridged CVs of the proposed project team, including examples of at least two similar pieces of work you have carried out.
· Proposed budget breakdown.
· Details of any matters or concerns not covered by this brief.
Submissions should be no more than 8 pages in length. Abridged VCs can be included as appendices.
These should be returned to anne.mackinnon@nationaltrust.org.uk by the deadline of 5pm, Friday 24th October 2025.

Please see the attached Request for Tender document for more detail.

More information

Attachments

How to apply

Follow the instructions given in the description or the more information section.

About the buyer

Contact name

Anne MacKinnon

Address

Heelis
SWINDON
SN22NA
England

Telephone

+447890425276

Email

anne.mackinnon@nationaltrust.org.uk

Website

https://naturetownsandcities.org.uk/