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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: MONITORING FOR KEY INSECT PESTS IN PROTECTED CROPS WHICH REPRESENT A HIGH RISK OF RESISTANCE DEVELOPMENT DUE TO LIMITED AVAILABLE MOA’S FOLLOWING WITHDRAWAL OF INSECTICIDE ACTIVES
2. Awarding Authority: Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Defra, GB. Web: (Bryn Bircher)
3. Contract type: Service contract
Open
4. Description: The Chemicals Regulation Division (CRD) within Awarding Authority carries out the regulation, evaluation and enforcement for the correct use of plant protection products (PPPs – essentially agricultral pesticides) in specified location on behalf of Defra and the devolved administrations. Part of this role includes ensuring the relevent regulations are kept up to date.
5. CPV Code(s): 90700000, 90732800, 03117130
6. NUTS code(s): UKD, UKD7, UKD73, UKN
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: GB and Northern Ireland
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: HSE/T4126
9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.
10. Date documents can be requested until 10.2.2022 (13:00:00).
11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information on the above contract please visit Web:
12. Other information: 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 focussing 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 focussing on gaps in knowledge and provide an understanding to the extent of the resistance within GB and NI.
Process : Non External Journal
Directive : Services
Procedure : Open
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