Published date: 22 January 2025

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


Closing: 14 May 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Agricultural services - 77100000

  • Statistical services - 79330000

Location of contract

CV3 4PE

Value of contract

£100,000

Procurement reference

CF-0442700D8d000003VQwdEAG

Published date

22 January 2025

Closing date

14 May 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 December 2024

Contract end date

30 November 2026

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The information provided by the RLs enables levy payers to select varieties that are optimal for their cropping system and meet the requirements of their local market. Data for the Recommended List is generated from more than 450 trials and tests conducted annually.
AHDB is seeking to procure statistical advice and support to facilitate the selection of crop varieties into Cereals and Oilseeds Recommended Lists, to ensure the design of the trials and tests and the analysis of the results is statistically sound. The supplier must also supply statistical advice relating the AHDB Cereals and Oilseeds fungicide performance project.
This project uses near identical design and analysis to the Recommended Lists but is on a far smaller scale than the Recommended Lists.
We are looking for one provider only. Subcontracting and consortia bids will not be accepted.
The services shall comprise advice on design of variety trials, analysis of data (within trial and over-years) and horizon scanning to ensure that the statistical methodologies employed remain 'state of the art'. This is not a contract for data management and the supplier will not conduct the analysis, except where investigative work is conducted to develop new techniques for use with the RL data. Routine analyses are conducted by AHDB using GenStat, linked to an SQL database hosted and supported by AHDB, with input and output via Microsoft Excel. It is therefore vital that the supplier has a thorough understanding of GenStat and can provide new updated GenStat code as required to work with the database for routine analyses.

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Award information

Awarded date

15 September 2024

Contract start date

1 December 2024

Contract end date

30 November 2026

Total value of contract

£100,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

The James Hutton Institute

Address

Invergowrie, Dundee, Invergowrie, DD2 5DA

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

Yes

About the buyer

Contact name

Julia Burger

Address

Siskin Parkway East
Coventry
CV3 4PE
GB

Email

julia.burger@ahdb.org.uk