Tender: Development of UK Peatland Indicator Framework – Conceptual Models for Wildfire, Flood Risk, Water Quality and Water Provisioning

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The Joint Nature Conservation Committee is seeking a supplier to undertake an initial research phase to develop conceptual models and evidence-based reviews for peatland-related societal outcomes, focusing on wildfire risk, downstream flood risk, downstream water quality, and water provisioning. The contract covers literature evidence reviews that identify peatland variables (pressures, management actions, condition metrics, geographic or climatic features) and their relationships to each chosen outcome, synthesis of those findings into a graphical conceptual model highlighting the most significant variables, and a data review identifying available data sources (preferably open-access and spatial at UK scale, or otherwise noting geographic coverage and licensing) that could support future modelled indicators. Bidders may propose work on a minimum of one and up to all four outcomes, and must record screened literature, raw notes, quantitative relationships where found, and produce short write-ups summarising findings and evidence gaps; recent JNCC scoping outputs and previous related JNCC work will be provided to the successful contractor.