Tender Results of Defra

Support for Ambitious Outcomes programme - initial phase-Support Defra's Ambitious Outcomes team in finalising outcome framework and creating communications materials. Building on work already done by Defra and KPMG, provide a stakeholder management plan for Ambitious Outcomes and Future Defra and design and plan build of Outcomes Dashboard.

Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) and Drainage and Wastewater Managemen-Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) and Drainage and Wastewater Managemen

Land use decision research & guidance-The Catchment Funding Team is part of the Future Funding Directorate within the Environment Agency. We develop and deliver innovative funding solutions that will enable us to influence policy to more effectively address our environmental challenges; we seek to embed these new ways of working throughout the EA. We are participating in a joint Shared Outcomes Fund project, called Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for Climate Change at the Landscape Scale. This project led by Natural England, Environ...

Defras Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) Skills Assessment Tool 2023-Defra's Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) Skills Assessment Tool 2023 - Cloud based Competency management tool - licenses

Remediation and Sustainable Growth Assessment Tool Development - Phase 1b-The aim of the project is to research and develop a Remediation and Sustainable Growth Assessment Tool that enables site-specific assessment of the environmental, economic, and social benefits resulting from the remediation of contaminated land and groundwater. Objectives • To better understand, and to be able to describe to others, the relationship between contaminated land, its remediation, its effects on health and improving natural capital assets • To know the most suitable natural ...

Green Finance Flood and Water Governance-Government's target is to raise at least £500 million in private finance for nature's recovery every year by 2027 and increasing to more than £1 billion a year by 2030. Coordinated investment in nature for water and floods can help the Government's target for private finance in nature's recovery. Investment in nature needs to be linked to a purpose or outcome and fulfilling them requires access to specific land in catchments. Broadly, we need to implement a local...

Evidence review of water quality for NVZ assessment-Background The Nitrates Directive (91/676/EEC) aims to protect water quality by preventing nitrogenous compounds from agricultural sources polluting ground and surface waters and by promoting the use of good farming practices. The EA is required under the terms of this Directive to identify waters which are or could become polluted by nitrogenous compounds and to designate these waters and all land draining to them as Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs). Farmers in designated areas must follow an...

Stacking of nature market credits-Stacking of nature market credits

Resources and Waste - Options for a Furniture Product Policy Framework-Aims of research Furniture was one of the five new priority waste streams identified in the Government's 2018 Resources and Waste Strategy for England (referred to there as 'bulky waste') for consideration of measures such as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and product standards by the end of 2025. Recent WRAP/University of Leeds research which used Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) analysis, identified Extended Producer Responsibility for Furniture as being potentia...

A rapid review of the impacts of aquatic pressures on biodiversity-Requirement to understand the available qualitative and quantitative evidence and therefore gaps for how anthropogenic aquatic pressures impact abundances of species that occur in rivers, lakes, ponds, estuarine and coastal waters and how pressures might affect our ability to deliver the targets. The requirement of the provider is to provide a rapid literature review. The purpose of the review is to bring together existing knowledge on how physical modifications, pollution, sediment, alter...