# RDE323 - Assessment of the naturalness of different river types

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Natural England](/buyers/natural-england/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology \(UKCEH\)](/contract-winners/uk-centre-for-ecology-hydrology-ukceh/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £12,639
- Award date: 8 October 2023
- Published: 7 November 2023
- Contract start: 9 October 2023
- Contract end: 8 March 2024
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 773408d2-e66d-4509-a3f0-53b11cc27b98-695828
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-8094aec6-4134-4154-865f-698b2b0482ae

## Description

To overlay the geodatabase on naturalness scores and the geodatabase of river/stream types and provide an assessment of naturalness for the river types identified below\. Naturalness attributes need to be aggregated on a one-out-all-out basis as opposed to the averaging method used for B6 outputs\. For each of the river types identified below please provide the following: i\. The percentage of the river/stream types that achieve the naturalness attributes\. ii\. The percentage of the rivers/streams that fail on specific attributes, for example x% fail on water quality\. iii\. The percentage of rivers/streams that fail on one attribute, two attributes, three attributes etc\. Contract awarded by Natural England\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/773408d2-e66d-4509-a3f0-53b11cc27b98-695828)