Published date: 25 October 2024

Last edited date: 11 November 2024

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£20,000 to £30,000

Procurement reference

NCEA-NCreport-01

Published date

25 October 2024

Closing date

14 November 2024

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

2 December 2024

Contract end date

15 March 2025

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

The Environment Agency Natural Capital Team, part of the Chief Scientists Group, is commissioning a review of how natural capital is used in environmental reporting. This project will support a new workstream exploring where a natural capital framing of ecosystem services and benefits can be used in reporting to help us achieve our goals for environmental improvement.

The project will focus on the water environment including rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, groundwater, coasts & estuaries.

Objective 1: Review how natural capital has been applied in environmental reporting across a range of scales and actors - focus on the water environment.
The work should review what is being done, who is doing it, for what purpose, what's worked. It should note patterns/trends across different scales (e.g. supra-national, national, local) and sectors (policy, private, third sector) in how natural capital is (and isn't) being applied into reporting. We are also interested in approaches taken in other countries with similar policy and regulatory approaches to the water environment.

Objective 2: Identify opportunities where the Environment Agency can apply similar approaches to achieve our goals to improve the water environment.
Based on the literature reviewed, the contractor should identify opportunities where the Environment Agency could explore the use of natural capital in reporting to incentivise protection and improvement of the water environment.

We anticipate that the project will require searches of databases of scientific literature, grey literature and the identification and review of reports by key advisory bodies.

The final reports and outputs are required by 31st March 2025.

To apply for this opportunity you must submit your quotation meeting the requirements detailed in the Request for Quotation (RFQ) attached.
Your response must be sent to ruth.hughes@environment-agency.gov.uk by 23:59 on Thursday 14 November 2024.

If you have any clarification questions linked to this opportunity or the procurement process please submit these via email to ruth.hughes@environment-agency.gov.uk. Please note that, unless commercially sensitive, both the question and the response will be circulated to all tenderers.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Ruth Hughes

Address

Environment Agency
Red Kite House, Howbery Park
Wallingford
OX10 8BD
England

Telephone

02030258796

Email

ruth.hughes@environment-agency.gov.uk