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Awarded · ResultStage · award

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

Peat Evidence Review

Business ServicesCPV 73110000
Value£230k
Awarded
Published5 Nov 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded
Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
Awarded value£230k

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

Who to contact
procurement@defra.gov.uk
03459335577

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Contract value in context
£230ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

This is a large award for Research & Development — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

This project will synthesise the latest European and UK research on peatlands to support future policy development in England.

It will explore a wide range of policy-relevant questions, including how peat restoration affects water quality, aquatic ecosystems, and flood risk; the changes in biogeochemical processes following rewetting; and the greenhouse gas emissions associated with restoration activities and forest-to-bog conversion.

It will also investigate the resilience of peatland carbon stocks under climate change, the impacts and thresholds of grazing, the criteria for identifying unrestorable sites, and the potential for quantifying and monetising non-carbon benefits such as biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Each question will be examined in terms of evidence strength, quality, uncertainty, and scientific consensus, and findings will be organised into thematic chapters led by subject-matter experts.

Aim To provide an evidence-based policy report which comprises topical chapters, based on the questions posed by Defra (see Annex 1).

These reports can be utilised as an evidence base to inform future policy and research by Defra and by others in the peatland community.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

This project will synthesise the latest European

This project will synthesise the latest European and UK research on peatlands to support future policy development in England.

02

To provide an evidence-based policy report

To provide an evidence-based policy report which comprises topical chapters, based on the questions posed by Defra (see Annex 1).

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

It will also investigate the resilience of peatland carbon stocks under climate change, the impacts and thresholds of grazing, the criteria for identifying unrestorable sites, and the potential for quantifying and monetising non-carbon benefits such as biodiversity and ecosystem services.

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Stage
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Source
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