Awarded contract

Supply of Variety Trials For AHDB's Recommended List Project 2021 To 2026

Details

Buyer: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Supplier(s): 18 suppliers
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI)
Agrii
Elsoms Seeds Ltd
Elsoms Wheat Ltd
Envirofield Ltd
Frontier Agriculture Limited
Harper Adams University College
KWS UK Ltd
Limagrain UK Ltd
NIAB
RAGT Seeds
RSK ADAS Ltd
Saaten Union (UK) Ltd
Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC)
Scottish Agronomy
STC Research Foundation
Syngenta UK Ltd
Trials Force
Value: £4,632,636
Duration: 5 years
Topic: Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services
Published: 3 August 2021
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

The AHDB Cereals and Oilseeds Recommended Lists (RLs) provide levy payers and the wider industry with independent information on the characteristics and market options for new cereal and oilseed varieties. The information provided by the RLs enables levy payers to select variety's that are optimal for their cropping system and meet the requirements of their local market, maximising productivity and ensuring a reliable supply of grain into the supply chain. For further information see the AHDB website. The RL is run as a series of consecutive five year projects. The current five-year program of crop trials for yield and crop quality ends at harvest 2021. This specification is for the procurement of new contracts to run trials for harvest 2022 to harvest 2026. AHDB is seeking to procure the running of cereal and oilseed variety testing trials for the purposes of providing data to facilitate the selection of crop varieties into recommended and described variety lists. We are looking for suppliers with experience of running replicated variety trials. All trials will be contracted for an initial period of 16 months from June 2021 to end October 2022, contracts may then be extended on an annual renewal basis, up to a maximum of 48 months (to end September 2026).

Timeline

Completed: Award date27 May 2021
Completed: Award published3 August 2021
Current notice
Next: Contract expiry date31 October 2026in 1 month

About the buyer

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is a ministerial department that also buys through agencies such as the Environment Agency, the Rural Payments Agency and the Animal and Plant Health Agency. Suppliers register on the DEFRA eCommercial website, Atamis, to compete for contract opportunities across the department. Larger opportunities are advertised through the Find a Tender service under the Procurement Act 2023, in force since February 2025. DEFRA also procures goods and services through the Crown Commercial Service. Existing contracts and frameworks set up under the previous procurement regulations remain valid until they expire.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of DEFRA's contract awards have been in research and development, construction work and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

77000000 · Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services

Decision makers

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