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Published 31 Oct 2025, 15:35 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

NCF R&D Trees Symposium - Trees and Forestry Conference: Research-Practice Exchange.

Official notice

Authority: DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS (Central government)

Below threshold - without competitionSME suitable
Sectors: Research & Development (R&D) (73) Delivery: UK
Awarded value£76,767published award · exc. VAT
Awarded 31 Oct 2025no call for competition
Awarded to University of Gloucestershire2 awards

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Both Defra’s Nature for Climate Fund and the UKRI Future of UK Treescapes programme complete in 2025. The aim is to host a join symposium in the autumn of 2025 to showcase the research undertaken across both programmes. The target audience will be government policy makers and other end users of the research. The objective of this contract is to pay Gloucester University for the organisation and delivery of a R&D symposium in autumn 2025, in collaboration with the organising committee, consisting of representatives from Defra Trees team, Defra tree health team, the Centre for Forest Protection, Forest Research and the Treescapes Ambassador team.

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1AwardedSME
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligible
73000000 Research and development services and related consultancy services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Below threshold - without competition
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
31 Oct 2025, 15:35 GMT
Last source update
24 Nov 2025, 12:03 GMT
Authority reference
C31084
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-076414
Latest notice
Contract details notice (UK7)
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d847 Find a Tender

Notice history

4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 31 Oct 2025
  1. Transparency notice published
    31 Oct 2025, 15:35 GMT
    UK5
  2. Contract award notice published
    31 Oct 2025, 16:02 GMT
    UK6
  3. Contract signature expected
    13 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
    scheduled
  4. Contract details notice published
    24 Nov 2025, 12:03 GMT
    UK7

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 2
Awarded value £76,7671 award exc. VAT · 1 repeated publication of the same award counted once
Contracts signed 1latest 17 Nov 2025
Awarded toValueDateStatus
University of GloucestershireNCF R&D Trees - Trees and Forestry Conference: Research-Practice Exchange14 Nov 2025 – 30 Nov 2025£76,76731 Oct 2025Awarded
University of Gloucestershire£76,767 †same award published again · counted once—Awarded

Contracts

  • NCF R&D: Trees Symposium - Trees Practice Exchange · University of Gloucestershire

    Signed
    17 Nov 2025
    Value
    £76,767
    Period
    18 Nov 2025 – 30 Nov 2025
    Status
    active

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PNBD-3289-CDGX Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street, London, London, SW1P 4DFContact name, 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 award notice awardContract award noticeUK6Contract award notice on Find a Tender
  • Transparency notice awardTransparency noticeUK5Transparency notice on Find a Tender