Awarded contract

ES RDE 101 - Biodiversity Policy Analysis Tool: Freshwater Module Development

Details

Buyer: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Supplier(s): APEM Ltd
Value: £97,109
Duration: 5 months
Topic: Research and development services and related consultancy services
Published: 15 October 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Defra Self-Service Direct Award. The Biodiversity Policy Analysis Tool (BPAT) is a modelling platform that aims to provide insight into how different actions to mitigate biodiversity loss will impact biodiversity change in England. Specifically, it seeks to take a set of actions and then evaluate how the scale and combinations of these actions will affect the trajectory of the D4 relative species abundance indicator. It also estimates the financial costs of the defined packages of action, potentially enabling the costs of alternative policy scenarios and their effects on species outcomes to be compared. ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published15 October 2026
Current notice
Completed: Award date15 October 2026
Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2027in 5 months

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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