FCP: E.L.M Payment Rate Developments/Payment Rate Verification
A Tender Notice
by DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Type
- Contract (Services)
- Duration
- 2 year
- Value
- £1M
- Sector
- PROFESSIONAL
- Published
- 12 Aug 2025
- Delivery
- 03 Nov 2025 to 02 Nov 2027
- Deadline
- 12 Sep 2025 11:00
Related Terms
Location
United Kingdom:
1 buyer
Description
The Authority would like to commission services for E.L.M Payment Rate Developments/Payment Rate Verification. The purpose of commissioning external delivery partners for the calculation and verification of payment rates is to ensure payment rates provide an accurate reflection of how farming or land systems are affected. This involves the Authority having access to specialist skills in different agricultural and ecological areas. Because payment calculations are concerned with the technicalities of farming systems, the programme wishes to commission bespoke ad hoc research projects to improve understanding of agricultural processes and how different farming systems may be affected by different payment designs. It is essential that the Supplier has good knowledge of the landscape of farming and land systems in England, the costs and revenues involved, and the assumptions behind them. A working knowledge of ecological practices of AES activities, costs, access to expertise in organics, marginal farming systems, and farming in protected landscapes. is required.
Lot Division
| 1 | Payment rate development
Lot 1: Payment rate development • Completion of annual payment rate review rates (expected to be 1/3 of SFI Payment rates) every year for publication deadlines, subject to the authority’s need. • Completion of payment rate price base reviews every three years or more often in the case of an exceptional price review. • The deliverables in this case will be updated payment recipes and data for points 1 and 2 respectively added to the payments rate calculator spreadsheet. • 10 working days to complete payment recipes. Deadlines set in agreement at time of issue of work package. • Payment recipes updated on the Live Spreadsheet for verification, upon completion of work package. |
| 2 | Payment rate verification
Lot 2: Payment rate verification • Completion of annual payment rate review rates (expected to be 1/3 of SFI Payment rates) every year for publication deadlines, subject to the authority’s need. • The deliverables in this case will be a report on the accuracy of the payment rates developed including the accuracy of assumptions and data. • 10 working days to complete verification. Deadlines set in agreement at time of issue of work package. • Initial verification comments provided to the authority upon completion of work package. • Report compiling verification comments provided to the Authority following completion of large work packages. To be agreed at time of issue of work package. |
Renewal Options
Option to extend - 2x 12 month extensions
Award Criteria
| Technical | Weighting 80% |
| Commercial | Weighting 20% |
CPV Codes
- 73110000 - Research services
Indicators
- Renewals are available.
Other Information
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Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-058688
- FTS 048179-2025