Tender Results of Defra

Group Accounting Strengthening Project (GRASP)-Group Accounting Strengthening Project (GRASP)

Impacts of fertiliser prices on horticultural crops-This project will analyse historic and current usage of nitrogen (N) fertilisers forhorticulture crops and understand usage of fertiliser and yields this harvest season 2022/2023 and potential future impacts through interviews with the sector, modelling and yield statistics. It will also assess options to mitigate for high fertiliser prices through interviews with the sector, and rapid evidence review (desktop review of published and grey literature).

MMO1344 - REM Data Integration-Explore how data from Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM) on fishing vessels can be processed, stored, analysed and integrated into existing data sources to enable wider impact across government. Background Across the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and associated agencies there is work exploring the potential use of REM on fishing vessels as it is an important tool for improving monitoring of fishing activity. There is now a need to undertake a piece of...

Marine monitoring systems mapping foundations-The project aims to develop a systems map to provide an overarching picture of UK marine monitoring delivery requirements and the relevant governance structures therein. The project will extend to conducting high-level critical analysis of the developed systems map, to identify prominent opportunities and challenges for the effective delivery and transformation of marine monitoring in the UK. The systems mapping work will form a foundational piece of a longer-term workstream to transform m...

Analysis of existing standards for installation and maintenance of river water quality monitoring equipment-Issue: In the Environment Act 2021, Government placed a legal requirement on sewerage undertakers to monitor the water quality impacts of their assets (storm overflows and wastewater treatment works discharges). We are in the process of bringing these duties into force. Without Government requiring some kind of assurance, it is likely that some water companies will install sub-standard monitoring equipment. Naturally this will lead to sub-standard data, which (at best) will lead to a na...

Additional analysis of river invertebrate trends from NERC ChemPop project-The analysis already undertaken in ChemPop showed continuing improvement in the quality of river invertebrate communities, broadly agreeing with other researchers analyses of this data. This trend was seen in all parts of the country, in both urban and rural environments, in all types of stream and regardless of wastewater discharges. This result does not match many people's assumption that the ecological quality of our rivers is in decline. This may be because few of the studies underta...

Using fraud and error to measure the true scale of waste crime-Background The problem: We do not currently have the data (or mechanism) needed to measure (or estimate) the true scale of waste crime. The currently available waste crime data, which is largely based on reports of known waste crime, does not give an accurate picture of the actual incidence of waste crime. Our current Corporate Measure for waste crime, against which Government measure our performance in tackling the problem, is based on reducing the number of known, active illegal waste

Update of Slurry Wizard Excel Tool-AHDB's Slurry Wizard is an Excel tool that enables farmers to work out their slurry storage requirements and explore different storage scenarios to comply with regulations. The main aim of the Slurry Wizard is to identify whether there is adequate slurry storage and to explore different strategies to meet compliance. The Slurry Wizard has four key components: • To calculate the existing slurry capacity. • To calculate the existing slurry production. • A report to look at the ...

Producing a set of criteria to be used to determine whether measures can be considered ecologically viable strategic compensation-The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is seeking to procure a Contractor to provide a set of criteria which will be used by the Collaboration of Offshore Wind Strategic Compensation (COWSC) programme to determine whether measures can be considered ecologically viable strategic compensation. As the number of offshore wind farms increase, it is likely that it will become progressively more difficult to identify and deliver suitable compensatory measures on a project-by-...

Development of a framework for database interrogation-Defra, FSA, FSS and Government Chemist (GC) have been working together to identify areas where Government can facilitate progress on some of the underpinning scientific issues that have emerged regarding authenticity of honey and are currently progressing a number of workstreams. The aim is to put in place the tools, standards and guidance needed to facilitate effective testing for honey fraud and allow enforcement of food standards which protects consumers and legitimate businesses. As pa...