--- title: "Deforestation and Conversion-linked Financial Crimes Toolkit" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-db8c868c-0c48-4085-be75-6fe793d89d7f" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-db8c868c-0c48-4085-be75-6fe793d89d7f" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-db8c868c-0c48-4085-be75-6fe793d89d7f.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-db8c868c-0c48-4085-be75-6fe793d89d7f.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "WWF-UK (WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE) TRADING LIMITED" published: "2023-07-14" --- # Deforestation and Conversion-linked Financial Crimes Toolkit Buyer: WWF-UK (WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE) TRADING LIMITED Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-b5fd17-db8c868c-0c48-4085-be75-6fe793d89d7f [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-db8c868c-0c48-4085-be75-6fe793d89d7f) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-db8c868c-0c48-4085-be75-6fe793d89d7f.json) ## Summary The World Wide Fund for Nature Trading Limited is conducting a procurement process for the project titled "Deforestation and Conversion-linked Financial Crimes Toolkit." This project falls under the services category and aims to develop a toolkit to help financial institutions identify and monitor transactions linked to financial crimes derived from deforestation or land conversion. The procurement method is selective, with a competitive procedure with negotiation above the threshold. The tender period ends on July 19, 2023, and the contract period is from August 1, 2023, to September 1, 2024, with delivery in the United Kingdom. This tender presents opportunities for businesses, especially those in research and experimental development, research and development consultancy, and environmental issues consultancy services. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations are suitable for the tender. Businesses interested in contributing to environmental crime prevention and risk controls in the financial sector would be well-suited to compete in this procurement process, aimed at addressing emerging risks related to deforestation and environmental crimes. ## Notice Please read full ITT document for information. KEY OBJECTIVES Interpol estimates illegal logging alone is worth approximately $152 billion a year, accounting for up to 90% of tropical deforestation in some countries. In the Amazon, recent studies have found that 94% of deforestation and habitat destruction in Brazil's Amazon and Cerrado could be illegal, and in Amazon countries like Colombia, Peru and Bolivia illegal enterprises and organised crime are behind one of the main drivers of deforestation: land grabbing. If viewed alongside more broad deforestation risks and environmental crime it is the 4th-largest organised crime after drugs, people and counterfeiting, costing billions annually. Financial crime is at the heart of it. This project aims at developing a toolkit (the "Toolkit") to help Financial Institutions set up the tools and methodology to identify and monitor transactions potentially linked to financial crimes derived from deforestation or land conversation WWF underlying objectives are: * To raise Financial Institutions' (FIs) awareness of financial crimes and human right abuses linked to deforestation and conversion in commodity supply chains. * To provide FI's compliance teams with a toolkit to support screening & onboarding of clients and transactions against a typology of crimes and red flags. * To develop framework to support FI's Know Your Customer (KYC) protocols relating to deforestation and environmental crime risks. Banks no longer consider credit and market risks as their sole major risks; as reputational, legal, and financial consequences of their compliance risks have increasingly gain relevance. US Financial Authorities such as Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) are taking crimes linked to deforestation seriously and therefore anticipate that the extraterritoriality of US laws could soon have overreaching impacts on financial institutions globally. In addition, the implementation of the EU Deforestation-free products regulation will require financial institutions to conduct due diligence checks to stop investments that cause deforestation within two years after the law comes into force. The UK may follow suite. The Toolkit provides a way to mitigate those rising risks and therefore has vocation to: * impact the entire financial sector's approach to environmental crime and risk controls * increase awareness of the emerging risks linked to deforestation, conversion and wider environmental crime, and * promote more ambitious policies on deforestation and conversion in FIs. Lot 1: * Research and Data Collection: Deliverable: Introductory Report * Analysis: Deliverable: draft Risk Assessment template and guidance * Testing & validation: Deliverable: validated Risk Assessment template and guidance Lot 2: * Website conception and development. Deliverable: platform available online ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f0e67836-4708-483e-94fc-826002f2fa8b | | Notice type | Tender Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Selective | | Procurement method details | Competitive procedure with negotiation (above threshold) | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 14 Jul 2023 | | Submission deadline | 19 Jul 2023 | | Future notice date | Not specified | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 31 Jul 2023 - 1 Sep 2024 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Active | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | WWF-UK (WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE) TRADING LIMITED | | Locality | WOKING | | Post town | Guildford | | Postcode | GU21 4LL | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLJ South East (England) | | ITL 2 | TLJ2 Surrey, East and West Sussex | | ITL 3 | TLJ25 West Surrey | | Local authority | Woking | | Electoral ward | Horsell | | Westminster constituency | Woking | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services - 90 - Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services ### Codes - 73100000 - Research and experimental development services - 73200000 - Research and development consultancy services - 73300000 - Design and execution of research and development - 90713000 - Environmental issues consultancy services ## Release History - 14 Jul 2023 at 16:29 - TenderAmendment - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f0e67836-4708-483e-94fc-826002f2fa8b - 5 Jul 2023 at 16:12 - TenderAmendment - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f0e67836-4708-483e-94fc-826002f2fa8b - 5 Jul 2023 at 15:16 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f0e67836-4708-483e-94fc-826002f2fa8b ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f0e67836-4708-483e-94fc-826002f2fa8b 14th July 2023 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/517ecf3c-c5c4-4800-85ce-38448adea13c - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/2438cf82-b2a1-4e0b-ac4e-fbcf92c125a5 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/7c1281a6-6c90-4683-a6b3-e4a023a8cf1c - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/b2de3aa1-90bf-4bce-87f8-7f4a07b707a9 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/f90a21df-922e-41ad-9441-52d6026fc6b9 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/2aa65e0f-0bc4-4911-ad7b-7cd528790053 ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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