# Future Proofing Plant Health

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by Defra Network eTendering Portal.

## Key facts

- Buyer: Defra Network eTendering Portal
- Supplier: Forest Research
- Award value: £2,359,483
- Tender value: £2,359,483
- Award date: 1 April 2014
- Published: 4 August 2017
- Contract start: 1 April 2014
- Contract end: 30 September 2019
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 64032b02-12d0-4dce-a20f-40272af45f3a-164027
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-374c824e-63db-4f7f-8b32-037acb17fdd7

## 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, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Natural England and Joint Nature Conservation Committee \(JNCC\) Additional information: Please note that Defra procurement uses e-tendering, provided by Bravosolutions\. In order to access the Bravo system you will need to be registered\. Could I therefore request that you register on the Bravo portal for Defra\. If you're already registered on the Bravo portal please check that your registration includes Defra, as you have to specify us in order to correctly receive the tender documents\. If you have any problems with the registration process, please contact the Bravo helpline on 0800 368 4850 or alternatively email them at help@bravosolution\.co\.uk\. The link you require for new registration/amendments to registrations is - https://defra\.bravosolution\.co\.uk

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/64032b02-12d0-4dce-a20f-40272af45f3a-164027)