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Natural England

Preparation of landscape-led design principles and guidance for new reservoirs and associated infrastructure

R&DCPV 73000000 73200000
Value£28k
Awarded15 Nov 2023
Published9 Apr 2024
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£28ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

This sits below the typical range for Research & Development contracts — a smaller, more accessible award. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Natural England is inviting tenders to enable the co-creation, with the water industry, of design principles and guidance for new reservoirs in the English landscape to deliver new, environmentally sustainable reservoirs across England which: • conserve and enhance existing landscape character, including the natural beauty of National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) in line with their statutory purpose to conserve and enhance natural beauty; • enhance existing landscapes or produce new high-quality, multi-functional landscapes in the wider countryside which deliver for landscape, nature and nature recovery; and • will help them to comply with national planning policy therefore assist in securing planning approval.

Landscape specific design principles and guidance offer the opportunity to expand upon the high-level National Infrastructure Commission Design Principles and other water industry design principles to ensure that the landscape implications of reservoirs are addressed, and wider environmental opportunities are identified and included in their design.

The estimated contract value is shown as £20-28.5K excluding VAT.

The estimated contract value including VAT is £24-34.2K.

Tenders should be submitted including VAT as requested in the RFQ.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Natural England is inviting tenders to enable

Natural England is inviting tenders to enable the co-creation, with the water industry, of design principles and guidance for new reservoirs in the English landscape to deliver new, environmentally sustainable reservoirs across England which:.

02

Enhance existing landscapes or produce new high-quality

enhance existing landscapes or produce new high-quality, multi-functional landscapes in the wider countryside which deliver for landscape, nature and nature recovery; and.

03

Will help them to comply with national

will help them to comply with national planning policy therefore assist in securing planning approval.

04

Tenders should be submitted including VAT as

Tenders should be submitted including VAT as requested in the RFQ.

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