The Office for Environmental Protection

Contract awards

• OEP130-01 Place-based delivery of nature recovery benefits

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £54.50kSource Find a Tender

  The OEP requires external research support to undertake the first phase of a project examining whether nature recovery policies and programmes are beingdelivered in ways that maximise benefits for people and places, while achieving environmental outcomes. This work will support the OEP's scrutiny of whethernature recov

  Awarded to Novascape

• OEP108-02 Unblocking nature restoration in England

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractContract ends 12 Mar, 20274 monthsValue £42.25kSource Find a Tender

  The Supplier should set out in the proposal how they will design and deliver focused evidence-gathering and research to identify, classify and prioritise the most material actual and perceived blockers to nature restoration in England, together with associated enablers. The work should be designed to generate a practic

  Awarded to APEX SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION LLP

• OEP124-01 Synthesis of overseas plans to manage pathways of introduction and spread of invasive spec

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractContract ends 30 Nov, 202625 daysValue £49.56kSource Find a Tender

  The objectives of this work are to inform the OEP’s scrutiny of domestic pathway action plans in Great Britain by reviewing evidence from selected overseas jurisdictions on the design and implementation of pathway plans, supporting the OEP’s statutory function to assess progress towards Environmental Improvement Plans

  Awarded to CAMBRIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING LIMITED

• COS227-01 Sage Intacct Licence & Support

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractPublished 17 Mar, 2026Value £199.14kSource Find a Tender

  Sage Intacct implementation, License & Support.

  Awarded to Solutions for Accounting Ltd.

• COS036-04 Media Monitoring - Procured through Research & Insights (CCS RM6126)

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractContract ends 30 Nov, 202825 monthsValue £13.80kSource Find a Tender

  About the project – Media Monitoring - The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) is seeking expressions of interest for the provision of a media cuttings service to support our communications and engagement work across England and Northern Ireland. This service plays a vital role in our daily media briefings, provi

  Awarded to Precise Media Monitoring Ltd Trading as Onclusive

• OEP021-02 Persistent organic pollutants in waste

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractPublished 17 Dec, 2025Value £49.78kSource Find a Tender

  Efforts to manage Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are critical to the UK government’s Environmental Improvement Plan, focusing on reducing harmful chemical emissions and advancing a circular economy. Building on our assessment of Government’s progress towards its Environmental Improvement Plan, this project will a

  Awarded to Water Research Centre Limited

• OEP111-01 Increasing freshwater species abundance through river habitat improvements

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractPublished 17 Dec, 2025Value £67.75kSource Find a Tender

  The OEP is interested in understanding and advising how government might best act in order to improve prospects of meeting its targets and commitments for improving the natural environment, particularly the Environment Act 2021 species abundance targets. The objective of this work is to support our scrutiny of the role

  Awarded to Jeremy Benn Associates Limited

• OEP102-01 Appraisal of the benefits in delivery pathways towards the 2050 target for woodland

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractPublished 16 Dec, 2025Value £59.62kSource Find a Tender

  The objectives of this work are to provide a critical appraisal of the synergies and trade-offs of potential pathways towards achieving both the 2050 target for woodland and trees outside woodland, as well as increasing the sustainable management of woodlands and trees. These pathways will be appraised to determine the

  Awarded to Economics for the Environment Consultancy Ltd

• OEP033-01 Managing nutrient inputs to support EA21 agriculture water targets

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractPublished 12 Dec, 2025Value £50.00kSource Find a Tender

  The objectives of this work are to improve the OEP’s understanding of the importance of management, including but not limited to the composition and handling, of animal feeds and manures on farms, in contributing towards the EA21 long-term and interim agriculture water targets. Furthermore, the OEP seeks to understand

  Awarded to RSK ADAS Limited

• COS350-01 End User Computing 2025+

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractContract ends 30 Sept, 202935 monthsValue £2.42mSource Contracts Finder

  This procurement is for our End User Computing Managed Service: • End User Computing • Storage as a Service • Security as a Service (SOC) • Virtual Infrastructure management • WAN and LAN management • Monitoring services • Mobile Device Management • End User Service Desk • Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity •

  Awarded to Boxxe Ltd

• OEP024-01 Evaluation of Approaches to Addressing the Nutrient Surplus in Northern Ireland

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractContract ends 30 Sept, 202823 monthsValue £124.40kSource Find a Tender

  Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of government plans to reduce the nutrient surplus in Northern Ireland. This objective will be achieved through review and critical appraisal of the following areas, as described further in Section 5: Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Nutrient Action Programme in reducing t

  Awarded to University of Lancaster

• OEP027-02 Further assessing the long term halt in the decline of species abundance – test phase

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractPublished 15 Aug, 2025Value £59.41kSource Find a Tender

  The overarching objective of this work is to test methodologies, using the data available, in assessing whether the long term decline in biodiversity has been halted as intended through the target to halt the decline in species abundance by 2030. The outcome of the project will support the OEP’s ongoing monitoring and

  Awarded to THE JAMES HUTTON INSTITUTE

• INS306-03 Nature Markets Review

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractPublished 11 Jul, 2025Value £59.47kSource Find a Tender

  The objectives of this work are to: Develop a monitoring framework and assess trends in performance metrics for key nature markets Gather perspectives from nature market participants and systematically appraise the barriers and enablers to nature markets operating efficiently and effectively Develop transferable lesson

  Awarded to Economics for the Environment Consultancy Ltd

• OEP110-01 Local scale advice for nature friendly farming

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractPublished 23 Jun, 2025Value £45.00kSource Find a Tender

  Farmers must balance multiple objectives, making decisions that consider economic, environmental, and business planning needs for their land whilst navigating a complex regulatory and policy context. The current farming advice context in England is fragmented, difficult for farmers to navigate, and sometimes inconsiste

  Awarded to University of Gloucestershire

• COS127-02 OEP Website Hosting & Support

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractContract ends 7 Apr, 202817 monthsValue £97.20kSource Contracts Finder

  This contract provides hosting and support services for the OEP website. Additional information: This contract was procured through the Crown Commercial Services G-Cloud 14 framework.

  Awarded to Civic Computing Ltd

• INS309-02 Developing a fitness test for industry resilience to water scarcity and the implications

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractPublished 12 Feb, 2025Value £41.84kSource Contracts Finder

  The Supplier shall develop a methodology which can be applied in England which considers the readiness of key sectors and industries to water scarcity and drought, and how likely implementation plans or a lack them, pose a risk to the natural environment. The supplier is not required to implement the methodology develo

  Awarded to WSP UK LTD

• INS307-12 Monitoring progress in expenditure towards biodiversity targets

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractPublished 7 Feb, 2025Value £35.88kSource Contracts Finder

  The overarching objective of this work is to provide the OEP with the capability to monitor the delivery expenditure of actions in the annual reporting period. The OEP intends to apply the outputs of this research to inform its reporting on Government's progress in delivering its Environmental Improvement Plan and achi

  Awarded to Economics for the Environment Consultancy Ltd

• INS309-01 review environmental standards for aquatic ecological impacts from nutrient pollution Eng

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractPublished 6 Feb, 2025Value £79.89kSource Contracts Finder

  Objectives The overarching aim of this project is to provide the OEP with an initial understanding of whether existing nutrient environmental quality standards underpinning the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017, reflect best available evidence. This will be achieved

  Awarded to Atkins Realis

• COS403-01 Understanding stakeholders' perceptions of the OEP and its impact

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractPublished 16 Jan, 2025Value £33.42kSource Contracts Finder

  The objectives of this work are to: Understand how the OEP is perceived by its stakeholders; and identify opportunities for increasing the impact of the OEP's work. These objectives will be achieved through delivery of the following project elements, as described further in Section 5: Stakeholder survey Stake

  Awarded to YouGov

• CRO309-01 A scoping review of effectiveness of agricultural diffuse pollution regs. in Eng. & NI

  Location: West Midlands

  Awarded contractPublished 28 Nov, 2024Value £43.27kSource Contracts Finder

  The overarching aim of this project is to support the OEP in developing an independent view of the effectiveness of three regulations relating to agricultural diffuse pollution, namely: Reduction and Prevention of Agricultural Diffuse Pollution (England) Regulations 2018, commonly known as the Farming Rules for Water

  Awarded to WSP UK LTD