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# Sustainable Drainage Technical Support

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/sustainable-drainage-technical-support-ocds-h6vhtk-03dd77). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** East Sussex County Council: "Sustainable Drainage Technical Support". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [East Sussex County Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/east-sussex-county-council-ons-e10000011)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Environmental issues consultancy services
- **Delivery Location:** UKJ22
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £240,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03dd77`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/sustainable-drainage-technical-support-ocds-h6vhtk-03dd77#tl-md)

## Description
Under the Town and Country Planning Act, the County Council performs two statutory consultee
roles, namely the Lead Local Flood Authority and the Highway Authority. To ensure that the County
Council is able to appropriately discharge these roles and ensure that planning authorities are able
to make timely decisions on planning applications and meet Government set performance targets,
it is essential that the two teams that perform these roles are appropriately resourced.
What has become apparent over the past 12-15 months is that the absence of up-to-date Local
Plans in most planning authority areas, coupled with high housing delivery/need targets, has led
to a significant increase in applications and pre-application enquiries for residential schemes that
have not already been allocated in Local Plans.
With this taken into account, it has been recommended that two additional roles be created and
recruited into in the Flood Risk Management team, to primarily consider and respond to planning
consultations. The team have tried recruiting into the roles via the standard recruitment
processes within the authority, both via HR and through the Temporary Resources contract, on a
number of occasions, none of which have been successful. As such, they are now seeking to
recruit via the external consultancy market in order to fill the roles.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Description:** Under the Town and Country Planning Act, the County Council performs two statutory consultee
roles, namely the Lead Local Flood Authority and the Highway Authority. To ensure that the County
Council is able to appropriately discharge these roles and ...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Sustainable Drainage Technical Support (active)
  - Award id: `018510-2023-1`
  - Supplier(s): **ARDENT CONSULTING ENGINEERS LIMITED**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-COH:05463029`
  - Value: £240,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Sustainable Drainage Technical Support (active)
  - Signed Value: £240,000
  - Signed Date: 27/06/2023

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F018510-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-06-29T10:44:52.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T08:51:21.816Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03dd77