Award

E3 Sharing Space for Nature Project

  • The University Of Kent

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Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-029161

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-052aab (view related notices)

Published 2 June 2025, 1:56pm



Scope

Description

DICE staff and PhD students will go beyond UoK Travel Policy compliance for the duration of the E3 funding, counterbalancing our emissions impact through investment in Wilder Carbon (https://www.wildercarbon.com), the only not-for-profit and high integrity natural climate solution available in the UK. Wilder Carbon relates directly to the scope and remit of Making Space for Nature by protecting and restoring carbon-rich native habitats across the country for climate, biodiversity and society. The Wilder Carbon Standard delivers high quality conservation projects that result in long-term carbon lock-up and real biodiversity gains, instead of profit being generated from nature.


Contract 1

Supplier

Contract value

  • £232,680 excluding VAT
  • £279,216 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Earliest date the contract will be signed

11 June 2025

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 11 June 2025 to 31 July 2030
  • 5 years, 1 month, 20 days

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 92530000 - Botanical and zoological garden services and nature reserve services

Contract locations

  • UKJ4 - Kent

Other information

Conflicts assessment prepared/revised

Yes


Procedure

Procedure type

Direct award

Direct award justification

  • Single supplier - unique work of art or performance
  • Single supplier - intellectual property or exclusive rights
  • Single supplier - technical reasons

The public contract concerns the creation or acquisition of a unique work of art or artistic performance.

In paragraph 2, "novel goods or services" means goods or services designed or developed at the request of the contracting authority.

The following conditions are met in relation to the public contract-

(a)due to a particular supplier having intellectual property rights or other exclusive rights, only that supplier can supply the goods, services or works required, and

(b)there are no reasonable alternatives to those goods, services or works.


Supplier

WILDER CARBON LTD

  • Companies House: 13292942
  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PDYQ-6287-BZVT

Tyland Barn

Maidstone

ME14 3BD

United Kingdom

Region: UKJ45 - Mid Kent

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): Yes

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

Contract 1


Contracting authority

The University Of Kent

  • UK Register of Learning Providers (UKPRN number): 10007150
  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PDYN-9654-JPQJ

The Registry,

Canterbury

CT2 7NZ

United Kingdom

Region: UKJ44 - East Kent

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government