# Future Proofing Plant Health - RBG Kew

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS](/buyers/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
- Award value: £200,000
- Tender value: £200,000
- Award date: 1 April 2015
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Contract start: 1 April 2015
- Contract end: 30 September 2019
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: c7dada93-1d5b-40d7-9067-b43575b90801-109134
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-2b5efac2-adca-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

The overall aim is to provide evidence that helps implement the GB Plant Biosecurity Strategy, whose emphasis is on: \(a\) Pre-border activities; \(b\) At-border activities; \(c\) Post-border activities; \(d\) engagement; \(e\) capability,capacity, skills\. The research is directly aligned with these activities and will focus on strategic areas related to new and emerging pests \(prevention; detection; control; resilience\) as well as more-applied and immediate research addressing priority pests and pathways\. The contractor is one of five research parties undertaking the project, the other partners are Fera Science Limited \(FSL\), Forest Research \(FR\), Natural England \(NE\) and Joint Nature Conservation Committee \(JNCC\)

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c7dada93-1d5b-40d7-9067-b43575b90801-109134)