# RDE 438 - Local Resource Option \(LRO\) method development and Cambridge pilot

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: EA
- Contract winner: [Jeremy Benn Associates Limited \(t/a JBA Consulting\)](/contract-winners/jba-consulting/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £72,300
- Award date: 4 December 2023
- Published: 6 December 2023
- Contract start: 4 December 2023
- Contract end: 31 March 2024
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: afd525ab-e96b-4319-9a86-bbe4ddab5224-704966
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-4954c370-d160-48a9-b091-a7d73a3bf828

## Description

aim of this project is to create a scalable and repeatable Local Resource Option selection methodology, then test this with a single catchment which provides water which is abstracted to supply Cambridgeshire\. Scope The objectives of this contract are to develop 2 methodologies which shall be sufficiently robust that a different contractor could apply them without clarification: 1\. to identify, assess, screen local water resource options \(see below\)\. 2\. to rank the options for their potential to take forward \(including consideration of cost and yield\)\. This contract was awarded by EA\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/afd525ab-e96b-4319-9a86-bbe4ddab5224-704966)