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UK1 - Pipeline Notice Biodiversity Unit and Carbon Credits

National Highways

This public procurement record has 4 releases in its history.

TenderCancellation

18 Sep 2025 at 09:04

UK12 - Procurement Termination Notice
Planning

14 May 2025 at 15:12

UK1 - Pipeline Notice
PlanningUpdate

18 Mar 2025 at 12:47

UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Planning

17 Mar 2025 at 11:02

UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Summary of the contracting process

The procurement process led by National Highways, titled "UK1 - Pipeline Notice Biodiversity Unit and Carbon Credits", focuses on acquiring biodiversity units and carbon credits to achieve biodiversity net gain regulations on England’s Strategic Road Network. While this tender initially launched as a planned procurement with a gross value of £2.4 billion and a services category within the UK, it underwent cancellations during various stages, resulting in a withdrawn status. The process included preliminary market engagements and planning commenced in early 2025, with future notice anticipated by late May 2026. The procurement was an open engagement with businesses to solidify market capabilities and legal mechanisms suitable for such strategic environmental management, reflecting key interest in dynamic purchasing systems and framework agreements by prospective suppliers.

This tender creates substantial opportunities for businesses involved in environmental management, such as habitat banks, conservation charities, and emerging platforms focusing on sustainability and biodiversity preservation. The process underscores a preference for procurement models that allow ongoing entry and scalability, thus small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, or social enterprises (VCSEs) are well-positioned to participate and grow through such engagements. Moreover, the anticipated frameworks are intended for utilisation by the broader public sector, broadening potential market applicability and encouraging diverse business engagement aligned with long-term environmental stewardship and innovative conservation solutions.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

UK1 - Pipeline Notice Biodiversity Unit and Carbon Credits

Notice Description

National Highways expect to need to purchase Biodiversity units to meet Biodiversity Net Gain regulations and achieve 10% net gains in biodiversity levels though our work to maintain and develop England's Strategic Road Network. We also expect to need to purchase Carbon Credits this procurement will focus on biodiversity, but explore the benefits of linking in to our Carbon Credit requirements. We will engage with the market to explore current capacity, planned enhancements to capacity and timescales for such. A short term solution using our existing Dynamic Purchasing System is being investigated separately. We expect to enable our resultant framework, so that it can be used by the wider public sector, as such the values quoted at this stage are indicative only.

Planning Information

To be determined.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-04edb2
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/057554-2025
Current Stage
Tender
All Stages
Planning, Tender

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK12 - Procurement Termination Notice
Procurement Type
Dynamic, Framework
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
SME, VCSE
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

90 - Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services

CPV Codes

90710000 - Environmental management

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£2,000,000 £1M-£10M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
18 Sep 202511 months ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
29 May 2026Expired
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
1 May 2027 - 30 Apr 2030 3-4 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Withdrawn
Lots Status
Withdrawn
Awards Status
Cancelled
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
National Highways
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
GUILDFORD
Postcode
GU1 4LZ
Postcode Area
Guildford
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLJ South East (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLJ2 Surrey, East and West Sussex
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLJ25 West Surrey
Delivery Location
Not specified
Local Authority
Guildford
Electoral Ward
Stoke
Westminster Constituency
Guildford

Further Information

Notice Documents

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