Research tenders & contracts

Germany – Research and development services and related consultancy services – Forschungsprojekt - DZSF - Safespace Bahnhof. Empirische Modellierung subjektiver Sicherheit und Ableitung evidenzbasierter Impulse

Finland – Research and development services and related consultancy services – Nanomaterial Risk Assessment: Refining and Validating Acceptable Variation in Nanoform Characterisers

Romania – Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) – Echipamente de cercetare in cadrul proiectului Infiintarea Centrului Roman de Excelenta in Neurostiinte Clinice(NeuRox) - 4 LOTURI

Romania – Spectrometers – Sistem RAMAN portabil

CONTEXT Nature Towns and Cities is a UK-wide mission to bring nature and green space to urban areas for everyone's benefit. It is backed by coalition of public, private and third sector organisations committed to putting accessible nature at the heart of vibrant, healthy, resilient places and communities, focusing on those areas that will benefit the most. Over the next 10 years we're aiming to help 5 million more people enjoy better access to green and blue space close to home, and 1 million more children to be able to play in nature on their doorstep. THIS COMMISSION To support places and communities on their journey we have already provided training, peer mentoring, action learning, case studies and how to guides, conferences and events and informal opportunities to collaborate, though the Nature Towns and Cities Network. We now wish to develop and establish a small number of Communities of Practice to connect people and organisations working to create, improve and care for urban nature across the UK. These spaces will connect local government and wider public sector, national NGOs, VCSE organisations and possibly private sector organisations around shared ambitions for greener, fairer, healthier towns and cities. Communities of Practice is a working concept, intended to start coalescing the large Nature Towns and Cities network around purposeful activity on specific themes. We want to create spaces where network members can work through live challenges, share experience, learn from different perspectives and identify practical next steps. This commission will determine what these spaces look and feel like, and how they are delivered. INFORMATION TO BE RETURNED Tender responses should be sent to david.coughlin@nationaltrust.org.uk by the deadline of 12pm (midday) on 18/09/26 and include details of the following: • Outline of your proposed approach, including outputs • Description of your relevant experience, including examples of at least two pieces of similar work you have carried out. • Project timeline or Gantt chart • Key responsibilities of team members and time allocations • Proposed budget breakdown The budget available for this work is £50,000 inc VAT. Please see the full ITT document attached for further details.

CONTEXT The Future Parks Accelerator (FPA) programme ran from 2019 to 2022 working intensively with 8 Local Authorities to help identify and develop new ways to care for the urban natural environment, create a step change in how people engaged with parks and greenspaces in the participant cities; and identify new ways to fund parks and greenspaces for the long term, putting the management and funding of green space on a more sustainable footing. 7 of the FPA Cohort remained closely involved with the project partners following the completion of the programme and helped to co-design the follow-on ten-year programme. Nature Towns and Cities, launched in 2025, was designed to support transformative change in up to 100 towns and cities. These 7 places form the Nature Towns and Cities pioneer cohort continue to receive support from the programme while also supporting and mentoring new participants. Although evaluated throughout the programme, it was anticipated that on-the ground impacts would lag behind the implementation of these changes. THIS COMMISSION This commission seeks to understand and evidence the change that has taken place in each of the 7 places that have remained involved. We are seeking a consultant to undertake a follow-up study of the 7 places still participating in the Nature Towns and Cities Pioneer Cohort to understand what has happened since 2019 (and especially since 2022), and to generate robust, independent evidence of longer-term impact, including write up stories of whole place change, evidence the benefit to places and communities of investing in capacity-building and systems-change approaches and support Nature Towns and Cities & Pioneer Cohort to understand and articulate the causal link between the interventions and their longer-term impacts. INFORMATION TO BE RETURNED Submissions should include the following information: · Outline of your proposed approach to the project, including project plan and high-level risk log · Description of your relevant experience and abridged CVs of the proposed project team. · Proposed budget breakdown. · Details of any matters or concerns not covered by this brief · Answers to the mandatory questions and company information included in the Annex (not included in page count). Submissions should be no more than 6 pages in length. Abridged CVs can be included as appendices. These should be returned to anne.mackinnon@nationaltrust.org.uk by the deadline of 9am Monday 14th September 2026. The budget available for this work is £20-25k incl. VAT. Please see the full attached ITT document for further details.

Germany – Research and development services and related consultancy services – ALLBUS/ISSP Erhebung 2027

Total system cost, which includes camera, lenses, software & SDK, power supply and required equipment to allow communication with the camera via PC. Two camera systems of this specification are required for this tender, that function independently from one another.

Hiring of Senior Specialist Policy & Research

Procurement of consulting services for an innovation partner to manage an innovation challenge and incubate participating startups.