Official UK procurement notice
Farm-scale landscape asset decision support framework
Authority: NATURAL ENGLAND (Defra Network eTendering Portal)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionResearch project to investigate how farmers view and understand the landscape assets of their farms, how they make decisions and how they could be supported to include their landscape assets in their decision making. This would be through a Rapid Evidence Review of existing research and interviews / site visits with farmers - with the aim of creating a 'tool' / amending an existing 'tool' to help support decison making which factors in landscape assets and their value to the farm / society.
CPV: Environmental planning · Landscape architectural services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£49,500
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Lot awarding rule: Full details are available in the RFQ.
- “Farm-scale landscape asset decision support framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How NATURAL ENGLAND (Defra Network eTendering Portal) buys Environmental management (CPV 9071), and who usually turns up
NATURAL ENGLAND (Defra Network eTendering Portal)’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Environmental management (CPV 9071) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often local firms win similar work.
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 55 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid8%
2–318%
4–629%
7+45%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 9071Published estimate£50k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid13%
2–343%
4–615%
7+28%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Land Use ConsultantsWorked for this buyer | Monitoring the impact of AES on landscapenotice published Nov 2023 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
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Who could compete for this lot?
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £5.0m32 awards in 36m · last this month | 12 live · £1.2m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=1 | |
| £1.7m26 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 9 live · £1.3m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 6% below n=13 | |
Accenture UK LimitedLarge | £514m41 awards in 36m · last this month | 5 live · £401m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=6 |
University of ExeterLarge | £3.5m30 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 16 live · £72m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 13% below n=2 |
Groundwork LondonGroup company | £651k10 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago | 2 live · £115k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=2 |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder appears in live search, the Retender Radar, contract pages, organisation counts and the buyer's decision figure; the other analytical figures are built from Find a Tender notices.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 9 Nov 2026, 09:57 GMT
- Last source update
- 9 Nov 2026, 09:57 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-106027- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b62cFind a Tender
- Reserved participation area
- K02000001
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Appointment period ends
- 27 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 23 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Electronic submission
- Not allowed
To apply for this opportunity you must submit your quotation meeting the requirements detailed in the Request for Quotation (RFQ) attached.
Your response must be sent to [email protected] by 17:00 on the 27th November 2026.
If you have any clarification questions linked to this opportunity or the procurement process please submit these via email to [email protected]. Please note that, unless commercially sensitive, both the question and the response will be circulated to all tenderers.
Timeline
6 Nov 2026 → 7 Dec 2026 · 5 dates- Tender notice published3 days ago6 Nov 2026, 10:55 GMT
- Latest notice published1h ago9 Nov 2026, 09:57 GMT
- Today9 Nov 2026
- Clarification questions byin 14 days23 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Admission / appointment period endsin 18 days · period end, not a bid countdown27 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 27 days7 Dec 2026
Notice history
2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 6 Nov 2026- Tender notice published6 Nov 2026, 10:55 GMTUK4
- Tender notice published9 Nov 2026, 09:57 GMTUK4
Published amendments (1)
2 additional Codes that were missing added in the scope section from original notice.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (5)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications Order Form
- Bidding documents and specifications RFQ
- Bidding documents and specifications Commercial Response
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender