Published date: 1 November 2018

This notice was replaced on 9 January 2019

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Awarded contract (published 9 January 2019)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Technical testing, analysis and consultancy services - 71600000

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

tender_191612/723382

Published date

1 November 2018

Closing date

30 November 2018

Contract start date

20 December 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2020

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?

Yes

Description

This project seeks to review some of the accepted approaches to the way we measure the impacts and risks in pesticide use, as well as the ways in which monitoring for those impacts is funded. There is currently heavy reliance on cross-EU mechanisms for approval of active substances in plant protection product. Whilst this is unlikely to change as we leave the EU, our exit from the EU does present risks and opportunities, requiring us to have a clear vision of how we will continue to authorise products to meet the needs of UK agriculture without causing unacceptable impacts on the environment.

In broad terms, much of the effort currently in terms of pesticides research and investment is placed in understanding and quantifying environmental risks at the point of pesticides approval and authorisation, and much less is focussed on systematically understanding impacts of pesticides on the environment once authorised and on the market. Whilst surveillance programmes such as the Wildlife Incident Investigation Scheme (WIIS) and the Predatory Birds Monitoring Scheme (PBMS) provide data on some aspects of pesticide residues in wildlife in England, the former relies on reporting of mortality incidents, whilst the latter currently has very limited coverage of pesticides, so currently no systematic long term monitoring exists to assess pesticide residues in wildlife or in the terrestrial environment.

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About the buyer

Address

Natural England
Peterborough
PE1 1NG
England

Telephone

0

Email

Supplier.enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk