Expired contract

RDE 390 - Evaluating intervention points for circularity in plastics

Details

Buyer: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Supplier(s): ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer)
Value: £49,752.5
Duration: 5 months
Topic: Research and development consultancy services
Published: 14 December 2023
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

Aim  The aim of this project is to evaluate barriers and opportunities to a circular economy for plastics across their entire lifecycle.  Objectives:  The objectives of this project are: • To design an evaluation framework that facilitates multi-criteria decision analysis allowing key interventions across topics, lifecycle stages and within each sector to be identified  • To provide a guidance document explaining how the evaluation framework is used, updates and amended • To provide a fully referenced report detailing how the evaluation framework was developed, how decisions for criteria making were made, the evidence used to support the decisions, assumptions used, evidence gaps and suggestions for future work This project was awarded by DEFRA.

Timeline

Completed: Award date25 October 2023
Completed: Award published14 December 2023
Current notice
Completed: Contract expiry date15 March 2024

About the buyer

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is a ministerial department that also buys through agencies such as the Environment Agency, the Rural Payments Agency and the Animal and Plant Health Agency. DEFRA also procures goods and services through the Crown Commercial Service. Existing contracts and frameworks set up under the previous procurement regulations remain valid until they expire.

Over the past 5 years, most of DEFRA's contract awards have been in research and development, construction work and business services.

Decision makers

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