Published date: 8 March 2024

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


Closing: 24 January 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Business and management consultancy and related services - 79400000

Location of contract

West Midlands

Value of contract

£55,000

Procurement reference

IA3267

Published date

8 March 2024

Closing date

24 January 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 March 2024

Contract end date

30 June 2024

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 overarching objective of this commission is to challenge and recommend the role our County Farms Estate takes as a contributor to the Staffordshire economy. It should consider if our farms estate is making the right contribution to our economy and to understand if the farms can work harder (to generate financial return) and how, and if this can relate to/support biodiversity and environmental gain and supporting innovation for the farming sector, including our climate change objectives and wider benefits to the Staffordshire.

Primary Focus (the main effort)

The Council would like to commission a review of Defra's Case Study work alongside the New Entrant Support Scheme (to be published in the Autumn) identifying its impact on the County Farms Estate and how best SCC should respond from a strategic perspective.


Secondary Focus
The review should also incorporate a high-level sense check of the work undertaken that includes:

• The potential to release County Farm land to support strategic scale housing and employment development

• Utilisation of County Farm Estate to explore Solar PV energy generation

• Partnership arrangements with local universities and colleges to explore Agri-tech as a component of Local Industrial Strategy.

• Hydroponics: has technology improved to overcome the constraints of sunlight requirements.

• Net Zero by Nature: using the Farm Estate to mitigate the County Councils residual Carbon emissions.

Tertiary Focus

The review should also provide a general commentary on any relevant opportunities highlighted within the UK Government policy paper, 'Unleashing rural opportunity. How the government plans to support growth and prosperity in rural areas' published in June 2023, and also in respect of the Councils own Rural Strategy 2023.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

County Farm Policy Review

  • Opportunity
  • Published 29 November 2023

Award information

Awarded date

13 February 2024

Contract start date

1 March 2024

Contract end date

30 June 2024

Total value of contract

£55,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

SAVILLS (UK) LIMITED

Address

33 Margaret Street, London, W1G 0JD

Reference

Companies House number: 02605138

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Tipping Street
STAFFORD
ST162DH
England

Email

commercial.team@staffordshire.gov.uk