Tender Results of Department For Environment Food & Rural Affairs

Contract Award - Thames Navigation PSRA Project (Tree Works)-PSRA Tree Maintenance Work

Testing the effect of different modes of advice on agri-environment scheme application quality-Defra have called off from the Behaviour Science Framework to commission evidence of the efficacy of different modes of advice on agri-environment scheme applications.

FEUSPP Transition and Exit Support-This contract is for the provision of support to facilitate Defra transition to its new end user service contract. This includes • Supplier and service transition • Third-party management • Managing resource utilisation • Commercial support (such as enforcing commercial provisions & levers (SLAs, etc)) • Production and management of project plans (RAID logs, governances, acceptance criteria, etc) • Handover to BAU

Dairy Market Indicators Review-AHDB wishes to conduct a review of our dairy market indicators. The *AMPE and MCVE market indicators are used in farmgate price formulas and negotiations but need to be kept up to date to ensure accuracy. Reviews have been conducted at roughly three yearly intervals. Following the last review in 2020 estimated factory costs have been kept up to date by applying relevant inflationary indexes to energy costs including gas and electricity, and labour). AMPE (Actual Milk Price Equivalent) is ...

RDE720 Climate impacts on UK food inequalities: a rapid evidence assessment-Food inequalities are disparities in people's ability to obtain food. Food inequality is prevalent worldwide, affecting approximately 1.2 billion people. The effects of food inequalities are unevenly distributed across populations. Climate-related shocks will further exacerbate these effects, and any associated health consequences. The Climate Change Committee's third Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) remarked that higher UK food prices are an increasingly likely impact of climate ...

Application Development Services for Fish Export Service-Application Development Services for Fish Export Service

Defra Group Connectivity Services-Transform and manage Defra Group's entire connectivity services, including • WAN (SD-WAN and DIA); • LAN (LAN and WLAN); • Foundation Services (DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and NTP); and • Secure internet access and remote access management and support.

Review of Natural Capital Reporting-The Environment Agency Natural Capital Team, part of the Chief Scientists Group, is commissioning a review of how natural capital is used in environmental reporting. This project will support a new workstream exploring where a natural capital framing of ecosystem services and benefits can be used in reporting to help us achieve our goals for environmental improvement. The project will focus on the water environment including rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, groundwater, coasts & estuaries.<...

RDE719 Pesticide residue analysis - laboratory validation-This project will involve UK CEH analysing a set of 20 honey samples for a suite of pesticides. The same samples will also be analysed by Fera in a separate piece of work. This will enable a comparison of the reported pesticide residue values between the two different labs, which will allow us to: a) identify and benchmark any anomalies; b) validate the approaches taken by both labs; and c) ultimately give us confidence in using both labs for residue analysis into the future. Aims This pro...

RDE723 Pesticide Load Indicator - Phase 6-This project will involve updating the UK Pesticide Load Indicator (PLI) with the latest available data generated through the Pesticide Usage Surveys, address limitations with the current methodology, and improve the reporting tool, with the aim of exploring progress across the UK towards more sustainable use of pesticides in agriculture.