Stale Pre-tender

Planning Framework - Advice, training, and specialist planning input

Details

Buyer: Natural England
Value: £9,000,000
Topic: Urban planning services
Published: 9 April 2026
Submission: 15 June 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Natural England requires ongoing specialist planning support to assist delivery of its Sustainable Development Programme. This includes the provision of statutory and non‑statutory planning advice on complex casework (including HRA, SEA/SA and EIA), support for national policy and legislative development across terrestrial and marine planning, and the delivery of training to address identified skills and capacity gaps. To maintain continuity beyond the expiry of the current Planning Related Advice – Professional Services (PRAPS) Framework, which ends on 31 March 2027, Natural England intends to re‑procure a multi‑supplier framework of similar scope. This will enable the continued delivery of statutory duties, sustain casework performance, strengthen strategic engagement in the planning system, and support improved environmental outcomes.

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published9 April 2026
Current notice

About the buyer

Natural England is a non-departmental public body, and buys through its own eSourcing portal for organisations wanting to work with it. Registration on the portal is free, and suppliers can browse live opportunities without commitment. Contract awards and the documents behind them are published separately on Contracts Finder, the government's central register for public sector contract opportunities and awards. Procurement queries can be directed to Natural England's own procurement support team, or to Defra's central procurement contact, depending on the enquiry. Successful bidders must supply a Dun & Bradstreet DUNS number before a contract is confirmed.

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

Over the past 5 years, most of Natural England's contract awards have been in research and development, waste, cleaning and environmental services and architectural and engineering services.

Relevant CPV codes

71410000 · Urban planning services
80500000 · Training services
90700000 · Environmental services
90711000 · Environmental impact assessment other than for construction
90712000 · Environmental planning

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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