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Status: Awarded
Published Date: 11/04/2024
Closing Date: 08/03/2024
Value: £70,000
PAI External Research Contracts - Hybrid Working Effectiveness - HMRC is commissioning a research initiative looking to understand how office presence influences employee effectiveness and productivity. Outputs from this project will contribute to the evidence base currently supporting HMRC's strategic decisions in responding to challenges presented by the evolving hybrid work environment.

Status: Open
Published Date: 11/04/2024
Closing Date: Unknown
Value: £2,900,000
Safeguarded AI: Theory - ARIA is an R&D funding agency built to unlock scientific and technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone. We empower scientists and engineers to pursue research at the edge of what is technologically or scientifically possible. We reach across disciplines, sectors and institutions to shape, fund and manage projects across the R&D ecosystem, from startups to universities, to break down silos and discover new pathways. We're looking for proposals for Safeguarded AI: Theory, for info see https://www.aria.org.uk/programme-safeguarded-ai/

Status: Open
Published Date: 10/04/2024
Closing Date: Unknown
Value: £350,000
Welsh Government Evaluation of the Universal Primary Free School Meals Policy - The Welsh Government is seeking to contract for an evaluation of the Universal Primary Free School Meals (UPFSM) policy in Wales.

Status: Awarded
Published Date: 10/04/2024
Closing Date: 22/03/2024
Value: £15,000
Heritage Economic Impact Indicators 2024 - AWARD - Historic England is the government's expert advisory service for England's historic environment. We give constructive advice on the historic environment to local authorities, owners, and the public. We champion historic places helping people to understand, value and care for them, now and for the future. Each year, Historic England produces and publishes Heritage Counts, which gives a narrated overview of the most recent articles, reports and data published on the contribution of heritage to the economy, society, and the environment. Heritage Counts is produced on behalf of the Historic Environment Forum (HEF). The HEF is the top-level cross-sectoral committee, bringing together chief executives and policy officers from public and non-government heritage bodies to co-ordinate initiatives such as Heritage Counts, and to strengthen advocacy work and communications. Heritage Counts aims to provide the evidence and data required to advocate for heritage, make decisions and influence policy about the historic environment. Heritage and the Economy, published as part of Heritage Counts, focuses on the economic perspective of heritage, arguing on the influence of the historic environment on sustainable and inclusive economic growth.

Status: Open
Published Date: 09/04/2024
Closing Date: 10/05/2024
Value: £140,000
CEFAS24-39 ITT for services for holistic approaches to investigating disease in aquatic animal systems in India, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP) - The Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP) is funded through official development assistance (ODA) as part of the UK's £500 million Blue Planet Fund. Through the OCPP, the UK government partners with ODA-eligible countries to deliver tangible and positive impacts on the livelihoods of coastal communities that depend on healthy marine ecosystems. The programme supports countries to strengthen marine science expertise, develop science-based policy and management tools, and create educational resources for coastal communities. Under the sustainable seafood objective, the programme supports the development of the skills and expertise needed to adopt sustainable seafood practices. This will reduce risks such as the spread of zoonotic diseases from unsustainable or unsafe activities, and will support trade in safe seafood. The programme will also help crack down on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing by supporting the development of better management, monitoring and enforcement capabilities. Following a One Health Aquaculture workshop, held in Kerala, India in February 2023, key priorities were identified for India that support the overall aim of the Sustainable Seafood project. These priorities are: • Aquatic disease • Water quality • Climate change • AMR In this project we aim to combine the four key priorities in one project focusing on investigating emerging and/or cryptic aquatic animal disease. Given the scope of this funding, only disease in marine or brackishwater aquatic animal culture can be investigated. This project aims to investigate an aquatic animal culture system in India that is experiencing clinical signs of disease and/or mortalities using a holistic approach (sampling both the affected species and the environment that it is cultured in). Traditional methods to investigate disease, such as histopathology and basic water quality measurements, will be combined with metatranscriptomics, and microbial/algal community analysis (including 16S bacterial and 18S eukaryote metagenomics) and chemical analysis to provide information on the parameters involved in disease and health states of the aquatic animal of interest. To view this opportunity please go to https://defra-family.force.com/s/Welcome You will need to log in or create a new supplier account. The opportunity can then be found searching 'CEFAS24-39 ITT for services for holistic approaches to investigating disease in aquatic animal systems in India, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP)'.

Status: Awarded
Published Date: 09/04/2024
Closing Date: 01/03/2024
Value: £40,000
A comparison of UK border process and systems with international counterparts. - The research is made up of two phases to be carried out in parallel: The first workstream is an exploration of the end-to-end border process and systems that different users of freight transport need to navigate, to highlight which processes need further facilitation and where issues arise. Ideally, this will include identification of specific user pain-points and the variety of possible systems that users engage with when importing and exporting goods. Crucially this work needs to include different modes of transport and routes (maritime, aviation, roads, rail and juxtaposed controls). The second workstream a comparison of the UK freight traffic border systems to our international counterparts with the 'gold standard' for the border. The work should compare the UK and international border systems; and explore how technology and systems for freight traffic abroad can be utilised in the UK to improve the user journey for UK freight traffic.

Status: Awarded
Published Date: 08/04/2024
Closing Date: 10/10/2023
Value: £28,806
Species Evidence Base v2 - The Species Evidence Base (SEB) is one of the flagship evidence projects underpinning the NRN. Forming a single repository for critical information on habitats, pressures, distribution, climate change vulnerability, recovery actions, and more for over 3100 species, SEB will inform key areas of NE's species recovery activity (inc. LNRS, NRPs, ELMs, Species Recovery Projects, and Species Conservation Stratefies) and help to ensure that we develop a NRN that delivers our species targets. Currently, we are building a version of SEB for NE use. Our longer term aim is to develop SEB into a web-based free service, supporting the wider conservation sector.

Status: Closed
Published Date: 05/04/2024
Closing Date: Unknown
Value: neg.
UKRI-2630 Provision of WBD science operations support for the Cluster Mission - Provision of archiving services for a a data set of the Joint Science Operations Centre for the Cluster mission.

Status: Awarded
Published Date: 05/04/2024
Closing Date: 04/04/2024
Value: £139,194
UKRI-2630 Provision of WBD science operations support for the Cluster Mission - Provision of archiving services for a a data set of the Joint Science Operations Centre for the Cluster mission.

Status: Open
Published Date: 05/04/2024
Closing Date: Unknown
Value: neg.
Department for Transport National Transport Model v. 5 2024 Rebase - A PIN for this opportunity, requesting engagement from interested parties, has already been published at: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009464-2024?origin=SearchResults&p=1 This PIN duplicates the previous PIN, with an amended response deadline of 11:00, 22nd April 2024. The National Transport Model version 5 (NTMv5) is a large transport model, developed using classic transport modelling principles but with a number of adaptations to enable it to be sufficiently informative with shorter run times. Some parts of the model use a “masking” system with a representative subset of zone-to-zone movements, to reduce computation times. The Department for Transport is considering a `rebase' of the system. There are three important elements to this work. First, and most important, the requirement is to update the highway assignment component of NTMv5 to reflect the situation post-covid19. This is needed for strategic forecasting purposes. In practice, this means using data from 2022 and 2023, a shorter period than the original data used to estimate NTMv5. The challenge with this work will be to exercise judgement about where compromises are needed to meet the tight timescales for this project, whilst still providing sufficient quality for strategic forecasting. This work may also provide some opportunity (albeit within limited timescales) for an innovative approach to meet this challenge. Secondly, we intend to switch from using National Highways traffic counts to the Department’s data (potentially including traffic by region and road type as well as counts) for this update. This is because for strategic forecasting purposes, the Department requires the modelled traffic to match its own understanding of traffic in the model base year. Finally, the Department would like to have the capability to carry out similar updates in-house in future. Therefore, we would anticipate allowing some time after the model updates are complete for documentation, handover, and potentially training to the Department in the methods used for this update. This Prior Information Notice aims to gather information from potential bidders about their capability and capacity to provide these services - via an expression of interest. To respond, please first register an account on the Department for Transport’s e-sourcing platform, Jaggaer (https://dft.app.jaggaer.com/). Once you have registered an account, please access and respond to the Jaggaer PQQ event for this EoI (pqq_431, available at: https://dft.app.jaggaer.com/go/10612947018E65985C93). Communications about this procurement should be routed by the message function under the PQQ event. The deadline for responses to the EoI is 11:00, 22 April 2024. Further competition will not be restricted to respondents to this EoI.