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Published 21 Jan 2026, 11:02 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Biodiversity Units Sale Agreement - Keele

Official notice

Authority: Stoke-on-Trent City Council (Local council)

Direct award
Awarded value£285,990published award · exc. VAT
Awarded 18 Dec 2025no call for competition
Awarded to GREEN EARTH BIODIVERSITY BANK LIMITED, Green Earth Developments (Group) Limited2 awards

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Purchase of Biodiversity Units. The seller proposes to create a Habitat Bank Scheme pursuant to the Conservation Covenant on the Property and fund the creation and on-going management and maintenance of the Habitat Bank scheme through disposal of Biodiversity Units.

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Direct award
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Notice status
Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
21 Jan 2026, 11:02 GMT
Last source update
21 Jan 2026, 12:39 GMT
Authority reference
HDG/2025/947
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-005264
Latest notice
Contract details notice (UK7)
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG23)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060ac3 Find a Tender
Why no open competition
Urgency
Published justification

Schedule 5. Section 41.

Urgency

13 Where-

(a) the goods, services or works to be supplied under the public contract

are strictly necessary for reasons of extreme and unavoidable

urgency, and

(b) as a result the public contract cannot be awarded on the basis of a

competitive tendering procedure

Notice history

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 Jan 2026
  1. Transparency notice published
    21 Jan 2026, 11:02 GMT
    UK5
  2. Contract details notice published
    21 Jan 2026, 12:39 GMT
    UK7
  3. Contract signature expected
    22 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
    scheduled

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 2
Awarded value £285,9901 award exc. VAT
Contracts signed 2latest 18 Dec 2025
Awarded toValueDateStatus
GREEN EARTH BIODIVERSITY BANK LIMITED, Green Earth Developments (Group) LimitedSMEjoint award31 Jan 2026 – 31 Jan 2056£285,990—Awarded
Green Earth Developments (Group) LimitedSME£24,486 †—Awarded

Contracts

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Stoke on Trent City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PDQZ-1442-RZTZ Civic Centre, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands, ST4 1HHContact email

Bidders & participating suppliers

2 commercial parties on the notice

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Contract details notice contractContract details noticeUK7Contract details notice on Find a Tender
  • Contract details notice contractContract details noticeUK7Contract details notice on Find a Tender
  • Transparency notice awardTransparency noticeUK5Transparency notice on Find a Tender