Published date: 28 January 2022

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 10 February 2022, 1pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Environmental services - 90700000

  • Environmental management - 90710000

  • Environmental protection - 90720000

    • Pollution tracking and monitoring and rehabilitation - 90730000

    • Services related to air pollution - 90731000

    • Services related to soil pollution - 90732000

    • Soil pollution protection services - 90732100

    • Polluted soil removal services - 90732200

    • Polluted soil treatment or rehabilitation - 90732300

    • Soil pollution advisory services - 90732400

    • Soil pollution mapping - 90732500

    • Soil pollution measurement or monitoring - 90732600

    • Organic fertilizer pollution assessment - 90732700

    • Pesticides pollution assessment - 90732800

    • Nitrates and phosphates pollution assessment - 90732900

    • Nitrates pollution assessment - 90732910

    • Phosphates pollution assessment - 90732920

    • Services related to water pollution - 90733000

    • Pollutants tracking and monitoring and rehabilitation services - 90740000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£24,000

Procurement reference

HSE/T4126

Published date

28 January 2022

Closing date

10 February 2022

Closing time

1pm

Contract start date

20 February 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

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

This is an accelerated procedure.

Justification

Work must commence before March 2022

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Chemicals Regulation Division (CRD) within HSE carries out the regulation, evaluation and enforcement for the correct use of plant protection products (PPPs - essentially agricultural pesticides) in GB and Northern Ireland on behalf of Defra and the devolved administrations. Part of this role includes ensuring the relevent regulations are kept up to date.

BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT
The emergence of insect species resistant to insecticides widely used in UK agriculture has the potential to impact severely on the safe and economic production of food.
The development of resistance in pest species of insects is well established and the loss of insecticides with several modes of action has increased the need for resistance management. The resistance status of pests within the protected crops sector is relatively poorly understood and the consequences of which can result in considerable disruption of the widely used IPM programmes.
The project will provide an important first stage to understanding the resistance status of pests (insect or mites) in protected crops of GB and NI. The project will focus on a single pest species or a group of pests on relevant commercial crops. The results will deliver the current resistance status of the targeted pest (s) to authorised chemistry focusing on gaps in knowledge and provide an understanding to the extent of the resistance within GB and NI.

Stakeholders in this project include:
• HSE CRD
• Defra, its agencies and other government departments
• English and Devolved Governments
• Academic scientists
• Regulatory representatives - scientists, policy and legal staff
• Industry representatives / chemical companies / grower, agronomist and other sectors, environmental NGOs
This project will be delivered by partners identified by the tendering process.

Objective
The objective of the project is to improve knowledge on the levels of resistance within insect/mite pests of protected crops to allow for better management and use of PPP. The results will deliver the current resistance status of the targeted pest (s) to authorised chemistry focusing on gaps in knowledge and provide an understanding to the extent of the resistance within GB and NI.

More information

Additional text

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https://in-tendhost.co.uk/hse

About the buyer

Address

Redgrave Court,Merton Road
BOOTLE
L207HS
England

Email

tenders@hse.gov.uk