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# Strategies for Rapid, Long-Term Structural Remediation of Compacted Agricultural Soils

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/strategies-for-rapid-long-term-structural-remediation-of-compacted-agricultural-soils-ocds-h6vhtk-06094d). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS: "Strategies for Rapid, Long-Term Structural Remediation of Compacted Agricultural Soils". Published status: active. Published Value: £700,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 6 Mar 2026, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: atamis-9529.my.site.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs-gov-d7)
- **Published Value:** £700,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 6 March 2026 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Research services
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/strategies-for-rapid-long-term-structural-remediation-of-compacted-agricultural-soils-ocds-h6vhtk-06094d#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-06094d`

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## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [atamis-9529.my.site.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fatamis-9529.my.site.com%2Fs%2FWelcome)
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## Description
Background 
Conventional intensive agriculture has, for the past 70 years, relied on a system of agricultural interventions to grow food, characterised by intensive tillage, use of agrochemicals and frequent periods of bare soils or monocultures. This regime has resulted in widespread soil degradation, with our arable soils containing the least carbon, lowest diversity of soil fauna and highest density of all UK soils (Countryside Survey, 2007 soils report).
Regenerative agriculture now hopes to address this soil degradation while maintaining productivity by adopting techniques that more closely mirror natural processes, such as avoiding soil disturbance, sowing diverse crops, maintaining plant cover, and ensuring ongoing supply of organic matter. However, despite abundant evidence that, in the long-term, regenerative techniques are better for maintaining soil structure and function, a transition from a previously degraded soil to a regenerative, e.g. no till, approach may result in little recovery from soil degradation, provide poor returns for the farmer, and may result in farmers returning to the conventional techniques they’d previously abandoned.  
Approaches are required to rapidly return a degraded soil to a state which is resistant to degradation and resilient to the impacts of regenerative techniques, to enable farmers to fully embrace regenerative approaches and benefit from them in the long term, and which can be encouraged through agri-environment schemes, as part of the wider drive to improve soil health. This project aims to conduct a large-scale field experiment to evaluate a range of approaches to rapidly alleviate soil degradation and deliver resilient soils suited to long-term regenerative agriculture, and to use this to identify and develop clear management guidance for farmers on how to repair degraded soils to deliver lasting resilience.
In this project the Authority is concerned with structural degradation, rather than purely chemical or biological degradation (e.g. land contamination or loss of biodiversity). It is recognised that structural degradation will have interactive effects with soil chemistry and biology, and that both these factors may influence recovery. Structural degradation is broadly synonymous with compaction, and results from weak soil aggregates collapsing into pore spaces, to leave a structureless mass with few, poorly connected, large pores. It can be indicated by various techniques such as measurement of bulk density, visual evaluation, infiltration, x-ray tomography etc. The resilience or susceptibility of soils to degradation or rapid loss of structure may be indicated by aggregate stability, or assessments of physical soil strength.  Recovery of physical condition would be viewed as the soil reaching a self-sustaining state characterised by a greater volume of larger, better connected, pores. This would usually be accompanied by an increase in overall soil volume, achieved by upwards movement of soi...
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## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 73110000

- **Estimated Value:** £700,000

- **Contract Period:** 12/04/2026 to 30/03/2029
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F004554-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-01-19T18:27:30.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-30T09:24:39.975Z
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