# MMO1348 - Develop an evaluation plan to assess the baseline evidence informing Marine Management Organisation goals

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Defra](/buyers/defra/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [ICF Consulting Services Limited](/contract-winners/icf-consulting-services/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £45,000
- Tender value: £45,000
- Award date: 27 February 2023
- Published: 29 March 2023
- Contract start: 30 January 2023
- Contract end: 31 March 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Notice ID: 54cf43a1-88bc-46c6-8b15-9074ea680113-629636
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-081e32dd-40da-4252-9004-b854bfd5e1b5

## Description

Description of work required - overall purpose &amp; scope \(including reporting requirements\) 1\. Project aim Develop a system-wide evidence plan, potentially including a Theory of Change, for the Evidence &amp; Evaluation team \(E&amp;E\) to evaluate the MMO goals\. 2\. Background to MMO goals The 2030 Strategic Plan1 states the role the MMO takes to ensure a healthy, productive seas and coasts for the next decade\. The plan sets out seven strategic goals that include restoring richness to our marine ecosystems, managing them with a culture of compliance across all sectors, developing comprehensive management plans and leading the way on transforming the viability of the fishing industry\. Specifically, the seven goals are: Goal 1 Work with partners to restore functioning marine ecosystems introducing increased levels of protection and improvement to our marine environment\. Goal 2 Manage a responsive and widely owned English marine planning framework that prescribes the strategic priorities for using and managing our seas, integrating terrestrial planning policies across the range of marine sectors\. Goal 3 Ensure MMO is recognised as a world leader for the marine management activities it regulates and the services it delivers across England, UK and internationally\. Goal 4 Manage an agreed framework for a culture of compliance through leadership, co-management and earned recognition leading, where appropriate, to self-regulation\. Goal 5 Support global marine protection by example and through sharing our expert marine management services\. Goal 6 Assure the sustainable and transparent management of fishing opportunities to achieve a resilient and increasingly viable fishing sector\. Goal 7 Maximise value from the use of evidence and data while ensuring effective specification, capture, integration and sharing of marine data and information\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/54cf43a1-88bc-46c6-8b15-9074ea680113-629636)
