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DEFRA

NCF Monitoring and Evaluation Scientific Indicators

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79300000 79310000
Value£218k
Awarded26 Apr 2023
Published19 Aug 2023
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£218ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

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The brief

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is looking for tenderers to submit bids to support and build the evidence base for the Nature for Climate Fund Tree Planting Programme ('the Programme').

We welcome proposals from a consortium of organisations bringing together several institutions including (but not limited to) commercial, academia, and / or subject matter experts.

The overall aim is to demonstrate the Programme's impact in the following outcome areas: Tier 1 a.

Carbon sequestration b.

Biodiversity Tier 2 c.

Flood mitigation d.

Water quality e.

Air quality The development of indicators will be used to demonstrate the attributable changes caused by the Tree Planting Programme up to 2025, and address evidence gaps in the Programme Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Framework.

Our aim in commissioning this research is to provide usable, robust, relevant and timely evidence so that the Customer can deliver a thorough monitoring and evaluation of the programme that gives confidence to others.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The overall aim is to demonstrate

The overall aim is to demonstrate the Programme's impact in the following outcome areas:.

02

The development of indicators will be used

The development of indicators will be used to demonstrate the attributable changes caused by the Tree Planting Programme up to 2025, and address evidence gaps in the Programme Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Framework.

03

Our aim in commissioning this research is

Our aim in commissioning this research is to provide usable, robust, relevant and timely evidence so that the Customer can deliver a thorough monitoring and evaluation of the programme that gives confidence to others.

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What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Biodiversity

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Stage
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