--- title: "UK1 - Pipeline Notice Biodiversity Unit and Carbon Credits" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-04edb2" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-04edb2" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04edb2.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04edb2.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "NATIONAL HIGHWAYS" published: "2025-09-18" --- # UK1 - Pipeline Notice Biodiversity Unit and Carbon Credits Buyer: NATIONAL HIGHWAYS Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04edb2 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-04edb2) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04edb2.json) ## Summary 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of £2.4 billion and a services category within the UK, it underwent cancellations during various stages, resulting in a withdrawn status.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. ## Notice 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. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/057554-2025 | | 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 | | All stages | Planning, Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 18 Sep 2025 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 29 May 2026 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 30 Apr 2027 - 30 Apr 2030 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £2,000,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Withdrawn | | Lots status | Withdrawn | | Awards status | Cancelled | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | NATIONAL HIGHWAYS | | Additional buyers | Missing | | Locality | GUILDFORD | | Post town | Guildford | | Postcode | GU1 4LZ | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLJ South East (England) | | ITL 2 | TLJ2 Surrey, East and West Sussex | | ITL 3 | TLJ25 West Surrey | | Local authority | Guildford | | Electoral ward | Stoke | | Westminster constituency | Guildford | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 90 - Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services ### Codes - 90710000 - Environmental management ## Release History - 18 Sep 2025 at 08:04 - TenderCancellation - UK12 - Procurement Termination Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/057554-2025 - 14 May 2025 at 14:12 - Planning - UK1 - Pipeline Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/021370-2025 - 18 Mar 2025 at 12:47 - PlanningUpdate - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009892-2025 - 17 Mar 2025 at 11:02 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009599-2025 ## Documents - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/057554-2025 18th September 2025 - Procurement termination notice on Find a Tender - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/021370-2025 14th May 2025 - Pipeline notice on Find a Tender - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009892-2025 18th March 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009599-2025 17th March 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ## Notice URLs - https://nationalhighways.co.uk - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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