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The environment is at the heart of everything we do as a business, so our role in
protecting the environment forms part of our company's purpose.
In our regions we enjoy some of the most beautiful rivers, coasts and wildlife habitats in
the country. We know how important they are for our communities and looking after them
is a huge part of what motivates our people to do the essential jobs they do each day.
Our environmental ambition is: Together, we are restoring and regenerating our natural
environment, creating a better place through our actions.
Ensuring we deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG) through our capital investment
programme is key part of delivering our ambition. We see BNG as an opportunity to work
with others to deliver gains for wildlife in our regions.
The provision of Biodiversity Units (BUs) for BNG is the purpose of this tender. We are
forecasting that we will require in the order of 700 BUs to enable us to deliver the rest of
our capital investment in PR24. The split of investment is approximately 70% in our
Northumbrian Water (NW) operating area, and 30% in our Essex & Suffolk Water (ESW)
operating area.
Our investment is across our operating areas, with the potential to occur in any of the
Local Planning Authorities and National Character Areas in which we operate.
The NW operating area includes 15 Local Planning Authorities (LPAs), and 15 National
Character Areas (NCAs
We follow the mitigation hierarchy when designing our capital projects, and aim to
minimise negative impacts to the natural world. As such it is expected that most of our
impacts will be on lower value area habitats. However, as many of our assets are already
in-situ it may be that we do impact higher value area habitats when we need to connect
into those assets. Due to the nature of the infrastructure that we will be building we know
that we will have impacts on hedgerows, and water courses.
We require the ability to mitigate, through purchasing Biodiversity Units, the negative
impacts on habitats that our projects will have.
We will aim to mitigate those impacts locally where possible but acknowledge that might
not be feasible for all projects depending on their location and habitats impacted.
We welcome submissions from companies who can only deliver in one specific area or
one specific habitat type, as well as from those who are able to deliver a wide range of
| Lot | Title | Value |
|---|---|---|
| NW3038A | Lot NW3038A | — |
| NW3038B | Lot NW3038B | — |
| Title | Supplier | Value | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lot NW3038A. Bio Diversity Net Gain (North) | EBL HB LIMITED | £3,990,000 | 24 Jun 2026 |
| Lot NW3038B. Bio Diversity Net Gain (South) | EBL HB LIMITED | £1,710,000 | 24 Jun 2026 |
solutions. We would also welcome submissions from groups of companies. If you are part
of a group submission, please indicate who the lead organisation is.
We want to deliver our BNG in a way that brings added value to our customers, enhances
the natural world in the areas in which we operate and offers flexibility in our approach
We need appropriate BNG solutions to enable delivery of our capital programme. For this
we will need:
We aim to deliver added value to our customers which can come from e.g.:
We want flexibility to ensure we can deliver best value for our customers, and alongside
the simple purchase of BUs we will consider:
The intention to to have 2 lots (North + South) and a total of 6 vendors on each
framework.