Published date: 27 January 2017

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 18 January 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research consultancy services - 73210000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£24,988

Procurement reference

tender_135966/562685

Published date

27 January 2017

Closing date

18 January 2017

Contract start date

18 January 2017

Contract end date

31 March 2017

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Negotiated without a call for competition

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Plant Biosecurity Strategy for Great Britain and Tree Health Management Plan were adopted in 2014. They defined a new framework for protecting plant and tree health in Great Britain, taking on board recommendations of an expert task force set up to examine the issues highlighted by an outbreak of Chalara (ash die-back) in early 2012. Enhancements were made to the Plant Health budget (a programme known as PHEIS) to support increased activity and investment necessary to deliver the strategy.
An evaluation of this enhanced budget was completed in early 2016. In conducting the evaluation, it was found that there were a number of systemic issues that both limited the robustness of the evaluation's findings and are likely to limit future assessments, whether for formal evaluation, or for internal performance reporting, management or planning purposes. These included a lack of understanding of the causal pathways in how inputs to plant health biosecurity services led through to outcomes and a lack of routine monitoring of plant health outcomes (in part due to intrinsic measurement challenges for such outcomes).
In response to these issues, this research will support Defra's efforts to improve the monitoring system to better provide intelligence on the performance of the plant health system.

Award information

Awarded date

18 January 2017

Contract start date

18 January 2017

Contract end date

31 March 2017

Total value of contract

£24,988

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

ICF International

Address

33 Cannon Street, London

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Defra
London
SW1P 3JR
England

Email

Network.Procurement@defra.gsi.gov.uk