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Status: Awarded
Published Date: 23/03/2015
Closing Date: 12/02/2015
Value: £78,833
Trustee Research - Provision of a robust, independent research study.

Status: Awarded
Published Date: 23/03/2015
Closing Date: 20/02/2015
Value: £56,500
Staging Tracker Research - Provision of employer survey to continue monitoring awareness and readiness for Automatic Enrolment.

Status: Awarded
Published Date: 23/03/2015
Closing Date: 12/03/2015
Value: £112,741
Provision of Tackling the Parasitological Challenges Arising from Organic Farming Practices - This Contract forms part of the implementation of the transnational research project entitled “PrOPara: tackling the parasitological challenges in organic ruminant farming practices” which was selected for funding by the ERA-NET CORE Organic Plus funding bodies (a “funded project” as described in Annex A to this Contract). This Contract is the national contract for the United Kingdom (with the Authority being the relevant national funding body for the United Kingdom). The administration of the overarching ProPara project shall be overseen by the ERA-NET Core Organic Plus Secretariat as described in Annex A to this Contract.

Status: Awarded
Published Date: 23/03/2015
Closing Date: 13/03/2015
Value: £20,000
Improving quality and agronomy for English apples, a short study. - Improving quality and agronomy for English apples, a short study.

Status: Awarded
Published Date: 23/03/2015
Closing Date: 09/01/2015
Value: £20,800
A Handbook for Ancient Woodland Inventory - Defra procuring in behalf of Natural England. Contract for the development of a concise technical handbook to support a major planned update of the ancient woodland inventory (AWI) for England.

Status: Awarded
Published Date: 23/03/2015
Closing Date: 24/11/2014
Value: £34,840
HQ Thresholds: Establishing critical loads from theshold values - Under the Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP), the UK will be requested by the Coordination Centre for Effects (CCE) to respond to a “Call for Data” by March 2015. The HQThresholds project (AQxxxx) will prepare for this response, developing Critical Load (CL) functions which describe the maximum nitrogen and sulphur deposition compatible with long-term protection of habitats. These functions will be based on acceptable limits for biodiversity, defined using a Habitat Quality Index (HQI) developed in Defra project AQ0828. Habitat specialists from the Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies (SNCBs) were consulted, and agreement was reached that the basis for a biodiversity indicator should be habitat suitability for positive indicator-species. UK results were presented at the 24th CCE Workshop in April 2014, and were instrumental in the decision by the CCE to request all Signatory Parties to provide data based on biodiversity indicator of this type. Threshold HQI values will be developed, below which a habitat should be considered damaged. Clearly there is more to biodiversity assessment than a binary choice (undamaged versus damaged) on a single axis, but this approach is necessary if biodiversity responses are to be explicitly included in CL modelling and integrated assessment of air pollution impacts. The HQI metric was selected as most clearly related to overall assessments of the quality of habitat examples by the specialists. To determine the most appropriate threshold values, HQI will be calculated for sites with deposition set to the empirical CLs for acidity and nutrient-N. The greater of the two resulting HQI values can also be seen as a good estimate for the threshold. Threshold HQI values will be assessed and a judgement made as to the most suitable value to use. The approach will be illustrated using examples.

Status: Awarded
Published Date: 23/03/2015
Closing Date: 01/03/2015
Value: £148,244
Improving Risk Assessment and Re-Evaluating Thresholds for Dipterous Stemborers in Winter Wheat - Defra procuring on behalf of Health & Safety Executive (HSE). Contract for the Provision of Improving Risk Assessment and Re-Evaluating Thresholds for Dipterous Stemborers in Winter Wheat [R&D].

Status: Closed
Published Date: 20/03/2015
Closing Date: 07/04/2015
Value: £30,000
Research into Long-Term Liabilities in the Onshore Oil and Gas Industry - Description The overall aim of this research project is to inform the system governing long term liabilities in the onshore oil and gas industry. It is expected that any long-term risks in respect of abandoned onshore oil and gas wells are likely to be environmental risks relating specifically to operations. The project has two primary goals: • To research into the scope of existing insurance products in the oil and gas and other industries, and to inform the development of the necessary elements / framework to ensure that operators have access to the best instruments for funding and managing their long-term liabilities. • To research and inform DECC’s support for work by industry to develop an effective industry scheme for liabilities (including where a licensee is insolvent). And, building on examples from other industries or jurisdictions, indicate how Government could interact with any such scheme.

Status: Awarded
Published Date: 20/03/2015
Closing Date: 29/01/2015
Value: £83,790
Media Monitoring Services - The Home Office (RICU) require a supplier to provide daily monitoring of UK and international media coverage across a range of sources and subjects related to counter-terrorism and serious and organised crime for a 6 month period. This monitoring is vital to informing RICU’s own analysis and campaigns work and valued by a wide range of cross-government stakeholders.

Status: Withdrawn
Published Date: 20/03/2015
Closing Date: 07/04/2015
Value: £30,000
notices - Description The overall aim of this research project is to inform the system governing long term liabilities in the onshore oil and gas industry. It is expected that any long-term risks in respect of abandoned onshore oil and gas wells are likely to be environmental risks relating specifically to operations. The project has two primary goals: • To research into the scope of existing insurance products in the oil and gas and other industries, and to inform the development of the necessary elements / framework to ensure that operators have access to the best instruments for funding and managing their long-term liabilities. • To research and inform DECC’s support for work by industry to develop an effective industry scheme for liabilities (including where a licensee is insolvent). And, building on examples from other industries or jurisdictions, indicate how Government could interact with any such scheme.