Award

FCP: Landscape Recovery Research Partnership

  • DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

UK6: Contract award notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-046716

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0582ec

Published 7 August 2025, 8:33am



Scope

Reference

C29739

Description

Defra currently have 56 projects in Landscape Recovery (LR) that are run by land managers with a range of expertise (farmers, landowners, tenants, environmental and community organisations). The range of environments, cultural settings, stakeholders and scales of project also present a complex challenge to draw out robust research conclusions that can be applied to policy development. We are looking for a collaborative research partnership with expertise across the environmental, social and economic challenges that face LR. The Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery (LCNR) has been established to champion interdisciplinary research spanning the needs of our LR projects with a common focus on Nature Recovery at large scale. They act as a hub for expertise, bringing people together from policy, practice and research giving us access to the expertise at Oxford University and facilitating wider academic collaboration.


Contract 1. Landscape Recovery Research Partnership

Supplier

Contract value

  • £93,105 excluding VAT
  • £111,726 including VAT

Below the relevant threshold

Award decision date

6 August 2025

Earliest date the contract will be signed

19 August 2025

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 20 August 2025 to 30 June 2026
  • 10 months, 12 days

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 79315000 - Social research services

Procedure

Procedure type

Below threshold - without competition


Supplier

University of Oxford

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PBQD-2428-NRXR

Wellington Square,

Oxford

OX1 2JD

United Kingdom

Region: UKJ14 - Oxfordshire

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): No

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

Contract 1. Landscape Recovery Research Partnership


Contracting authority

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PNBD-3289-CDGX

Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

United Kingdom

Region: UKI32 - Westminster

Organisation type: Public authority - central government