Scope
Reference
C0121
Description
The National Lottery Community Fund want to better understand and communicate the wide range of activities that community organisations undertake that benefit the environment. This project will establish a sound foundation from which we can generate quality data about the environment projects we fund. An external supplier (possibly a partnership of specialist expertise) is being procured to work with our Evidence and Impact Team and others in the Fund.
It will combine two related (but distinct) workstreams into one project for efficiency and synergies:
A. Environment Projects Typology - This will establish a common Proof of Concept (PoC) typology for the types of environmental projects that we fund. This work will: review, further develop, and test our typology(s) of environmental projects using machine learning (AI) that classifies the nature of the work we receive applications for and support, and proposes a sound typology for the future, including considerations on how we use and improve it in the short and medium terms.
B. Improve Climate Action Fund (CAF) programme monitoring data - This will create a Monitoring Framework that works for the current CAF funded projects as well as future environmental funding in our UK Portfolio. This work will review current monitoring requirements and identify future requirements; assess options for approaches for data capture, analysis and reporting; refine and test existing survey tool; create implementation plan; and complete report on what is known about CAF to date.
Total value (estimated)
- £80,000 excluding VAT
- £96,000 including VAT
Below the relevant threshold
Contract dates (estimated)
- 6 October 2025 to 27 March 2026
- 5 months, 22 days
Main procurement category
Services
CPV classifications
- 73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services
Contract locations
- UK - United Kingdom
Submission
Enquiry deadline
26 August 2025, 5:00pm
Tender submission deadline
8 September 2025, 3:00pm
Submission address and any special instructions
Tenders may be submitted electronically
Yes
Award criteria
Quality/Technical - 85%
Price/Commercial - 15%
Procedure
Procedure type
Below threshold - open competition
Documents
Associated tender documents
https://uk.eu-supply.com/
Technical specifications to be met
https://uk.eu-supply.com/
Contracting authority
The National Lottery Community Fund
- Public Procurement Organisation Number: PNLV-9975-CQQW
Apex House, 3 Embassy Drive
Birmingham
B15 1TR
United Kingdom
Region: UKG31 - Birmingham
Organisation type: Public authority - central government