Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products

Tender description

The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, operating through its Cereals and Oilseeds division is offering for tender a number of cereal and oilseed rape variety trials, disease and quality tests to enable the development of the AHDB Recommended Lists. The Recommended List system identifies and recommends appropriate cereal and oilseed-rape varieties for different market sectors of the industry and ensures that these recommendations are publicised. It operates impartially and seeks the involvement of all significant sectors of the industry in making its recommendations in the interests of the industry as a whole. The trials and tests in this tender are for some of those providing data that underpins the AHDB Recommended Lists. Tenders are invited from single operators or consortia for work to be undertaken over a period of 5 years covering the harvesting seasons 2017-2021 depending on the trials. Details of the trials including specifications (such as rotation, sowing time, soil type and management) contract start dates and lengths are provided as part of the tender documents. Tenders are invited for any or all of the trials/tests described therein.