Shared & Contested Values

Descriptions

NRW wishes to commission an interdisciplinary study of the shared and contested values held by people in Wales to inform the sustainable management of natural resources and to contribute towards a shared vision for the natural environment in 2050.We envisage the use of scenarios to provide plausible narratives concerning uncertainty about the state of the world at this time and we would like to elicit those thought most and least likely, and those thought most and least desirable.We would further like both qualitative and quantitative analysis of the norms and the ways these norms have been internalised with respect to varying assessment of the alternatives presented, coupled with estimates of the Willingness to Pay for the most desired, the Willingness to Accept the least desired and the WTP/WTA for the most and least likely.We are hoping to be able to publish tender documents during week commencing 15th April 2019. The tender period will be 6 weeks, with then a further period for Evaluation & Standstill. We would be hoping to award the contract by the end of June 2019, with a view to the contract starting around early July 2019. The contract period is therefore predicted to be about 8 ½ months.*Please note that these dates/periods are an estimate & may be subject to change by NRW.If you feel that this contract may be of interest to your organisation, please can you email your response/interest to procurement.ns@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk by 17:00 on Friday 12th April 2019.