Expired contract

ES RDE 012 - Riparian Buffer Strips Opportunity Mapping & Attenuated Loads

Details

Buyer: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Supplier(s): Jeremy Benn Associates Limited (t/a JBA Consulting)
Value: £114,989.42
Duration: 6 months
Topic: Research and development services and related consultancy services
Published: 27 March 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Natural England self-service direct award. Natural England must continue this essential work towards better understanding the nutrient interception potential of riparian buffer strips across all nutrient neutrality catchments using best available evidence, while considering nutrient attenuation overland and within water to the nearest hydrologically connected point of the relevant Protected Site, using up-to-date Farmscoper loads datasets split by pathway. This will result in (updated) opportunity maps and summary statistics for all 27 nutrient neutrality catchments. ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published27 March 2026
Current notice
Completed: Award date27 March 2026
Completed: Contract expiry date18 September 2026

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.

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