Notice Information
Notice Title
Argyll & Bute Climate Ready Regions Business Case
Notice Description
Argyll Countryside Trust (ACT) wishes to engage a suitably qualified consultant to develop a high-level business case for an Argyll and Bute Climate Ready Region partnership. The business case would help to help secure future funding to develop and maintain a sustainable partnership model and produce a routemap of actions to establish the partnership over the next 5 years.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Argyll Countryside Trust (ACT), on behalf of ABCAN and the Argyll and Bute CPP, the project partners, with support from Adaptation Scotland, wishes to engage a suitably qualified consultant to develop a business case to help secure future funding to develop and maintain a sustainable partnership model and produce a routemap of actions to establish the partnership over the next 5 years. The outputs of this work will provide a robust business case for the partnership, including an evidence base and plan around which to focus action and seek future support and investment and should allow organisations more widely across Argyll and Bute to identify how they fit into the overall approach.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000812895
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=DEC544698
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- PCS Notice - Website Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
-
- CPV Codes
73200000 - Research and development consultancy services
79314000 - Feasibility study
79400000 - Business and management consultancy and related services
79411100 - Business development consultancy services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £20,833 Under £100K
- Lots Value
- £20,833 Under £100K
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £19,600 Under £100K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 2 Dec 20252 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 4 Nov 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 11 Nov 20253 months ago
- Contract Period
- 17 Nov 2025 - 10 Mar 2026 1-6 months
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- ARGYLL AND THE ISLES COAST AND COUNTRYSIDE TRUST (ACT)
- Contact Name
- Deb Baker
- Contact Email
- deb@act-now.org.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 07748392475
Buyer Location
- Locality
- ARGYLL
- Postcode
- PA31 8SH
- Post Town
- Paisley
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM2 Highlands and Islands
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM20 Highlands and Islands
- Delivery Location
- TLM63 Lochaber, Skye and Lochalsh, Arran and Cumbrae, and Argyll and Bute
-
- Local Authority
- Argyll and Bute
- Electoral Ward
- Mid Argyll
- Westminster Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber
Further Information
Notice Documents
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https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=OCT541319&idx=3
27th October 2025 - ACT's standard T&C's for services contracts -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=OCT541319&idx=1
13th October 2025 - Statement of Requirments -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=OCT541319&idx=2
13th October 2025 - Appendix 1: Basic Details -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT541319
Argyll & Bute Climate Ready Regions Business Case - Argyll Countryside Trust (ACT) wishes to engage a suitably qualified consultant to develop a high-level business case for an Argyll and Bute Climate Ready Region partnership. The business case would help to help secure future funding to develop and maintain a sustainable partnership model and produce a routemap of actions to establish the partnership over the next 5 years. -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=DEC544698
Argyll & Bute Climate Ready Regions Business Case - Argyll Countryside Trust (ACT) wishes to engage a suitably qualified consultant to develop a high-level business case for an Argyll and Bute Climate Ready Region partnership. The business case would help to help secure future funding to develop and maintain a sustainable partnership model and produce a routemap of actions to establish the partnership over the next 5 years.
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