Published date: 3 January 2024

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


Closing: 20 December 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£66,660

Procurement reference

CF-0213200D8d000003VQwdEAG

Published date

3 January 2024

Closing date

20 December 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

8 January 2024

Contract end date

31 May 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Paludiculture Roadmap produced by the Lowland Agricultural Peat Task Force's Paludiculture Sub-group was published earlier this year.
The agronomy pathway contains actions related to weeds, pests and diseases across years 2 and 3 of the roadmap. Whilst parts of this pathway will be informed by ongoing paludiculture projects and other parts of the roadmap, questions are arising regarding developing policy on paludiculture
which means that Defra requires answers before 2025 (roadmap year 3).
Concerns have been raised about the compatibility of currently used agricultural pesticides and herbicides with paludiculture and the limited active substances that are approved for use on land immediately adjacent to aquatic areas.
Therefore, research is required to determine paludiculture compatible control measures for weeds, pests and diseases that could thrive under paludicultural conditions and threaten crop quality.
Similarly, the agricultural policy and farming support pathway does not propose to start the investigation of paludiculture suitable food crops until roadmap year 3, but the ability of paludiculture to supply food crops is an important question in policy development. Therefore, the intention is to start scoping paludicultural food crops now, to identify the most promising crops for further investigation.

This contract was awarded by DEFRA.

Award information

Awarded date

19 December 2023

Contract start date

8 January 2024

Contract end date

31 May 2024

Total value of contract

£66,660

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

NIAB

Address

93 Lawrence Weaver Road CB3 0LE

Reference

None

About the buyer

Contact name

Defra Group Commercial

Address

17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR
UK

Email

dgc.rdeframework@defra.gov.uk