Expired contract

RDE298 Saltmarsh Denitrification Rate Methods Appraisal

Details

Value
£49,965
Duration
7 months
Topic
Research and development consultancy services
Published
20 September 2023

Tender description

As part of Year 2 of the Marine Natural Capital Ecosystem Assessment Programme (mNCEA), the Environment Agency are running a project called the Land-Sea Interface (LSI), which aims to improve the evidence of ecosystem services in key estuarine and coastal habitats, such as saltmarsh, seagrass and shellfish beds. This particular project aims to understand more about the rates of nutrients are removed from the water column and sediment by saltmarsh habitats through denitrification. The deliverables of the project will be used to fill evidence gaps in the updated Combined Phytoplankton-Macroalgae (CPM) model and improve our natural capital assessments of natural and restored saltmarsh habitats.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date18 August 2023
  2. Completed: Award published20 September 2023
    Current notice
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date31 March 2024

About the buyer

The Environment Agency is an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by Defra, and buys as a central agency for flood risk, water quality and pollution control. Contracts are advertised on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, with major purchases run through Atamis, the Defra group's shared eCommercial portal. Flood and coastal risk schemes are delivered mainly through the Collaborative Delivery Framework, alongside frameworks for mapping, modelling and property flood resilience. These frameworks run through a central contract management system. Commercial oversight sits with Defra Group Commercial, alongside the Environment Agency's own project teams.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Environment Agency's contract awards have been in construction work, architectural and engineering services and research and development.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 73200000 · Research and development consultancy services

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