Notice Information
Notice Title
Exploring the potential of Regional Farm and Rural Support Groups to stimulate Green Finance Markets
Notice Description
Natural England are commissioning research to investigate the potential of Regional Farm and Rural Support Groups (RFRSGs), specifically through their role as aggregators, to stimulate Green Finance markets and support key place-based environmental planning initiatives such as LNRS. The objectives of this research are to: 1) Understand the coverage of RFRSGs or similar initiatives across England. 2) Characterise RFRSGs in England (with focus on geographical scale, membership, governance structures, level of engagement with Green Finance and links to local governance arrangements and delivery frameworks) to assess their individual and collective potential to act as a Green Finance aggregators and support place-based environmental planning. 3) Produce a heat-map to visually illustrate the above and identify gaps in national coverage and capacity to engage with Green Finance markets and support place-based environmental planning. 4) Explore and demonstrate the potential of RFRSGs to attract natural capital investment and support its distribution through a series of case studies aimed at exploring RFRSGs state of readiness and capacity to act as aggregators in local emerging ecosystem service markets. 5) Provide a series of recommendations aimed at: a) RFRSGs: to facilitate their engagement with emerging Green Finance markets and highlighting best practice to enable other RFRSGs to follow suite b) Policy makers: to increase awareness of the potential of RFRSGs to support Green Finance policy and direct finance flows to deliver landscape scale environmental goals c) Responsible authorities: to increase awareness of the potential of RFRSGs to support and deliver on integrated place-based environmental planning. Additional information: To apply for this opportunity you must submit your quotation meeting the requirements detailed in the Request for Quotation (RFQ) attached. Your response must be sent to stephen.jones@naturalengland.org.uk by 12 midday on 30th August 2023. If you have any clarification questions linked to this opportunity or the procurement process please submit these via email to stephen.jones@naturalengland.org.uk. Please note that, unless commercially sensitive, both the question and the response will be circulated to all tenderers.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-b5fd17-7eda12d4-b93a-41ac-84d6-f87efb7b1b40
- Publication Source
- Contracts Finder
- Latest Notice
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/d0b05e6a-2338-45c8-9ddf-655a1fe61840
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services
-
- CPV Codes
73110000 - Research services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £41,665 Under £100K
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- £39,963 Under £100K
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 20 Nov 20232 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 30 Aug 2023Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 3 Sep 20232 years ago
- Contract Period
- 10 Sep 2023 - 31 Mar 2024 6-12 months
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NATURAL ENGLAND
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- NOTTINGHAM
- Postcode
- NG2 4LA
- Post Town
- Nottingham
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLF East Midlands (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLF1 Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLF14 Nottingham
- Delivery Location
- TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLH East (England), TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England)
-
- Local Authority
- Nottingham
- Electoral Ward
- Castle
- Westminster Constituency
- Nottingham East
Further Information
Notice Documents
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https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/d0b05e6a-2338-45c8-9ddf-655a1fe61840
20th November 2023 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder -
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/fecc3af6-cf20-42de-902e-1e747be096d9
22nd August 2023 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder
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