Provision of Development of the IPI specimen archive
What the buyer wrote
The Contractor aims to establish an insect biodiversity archive to preserve 50,000 specimens collected during research funded under the UK Insect Pollinators initiative (IPI), and make these available for future research. Based on PI estimates of the proportions of each IPI grant budget spent on collection, preparation, identification, and data entry, the Contractor estimates the value of the IPI specimens to be £3 million, 30% of the IPI budget. The proposed archive would represent a unique internationally significant resource for research into insect biodiversity, and pollinators specifically, and provide highly-resolved baseline sampling for tracking of changes in populations and diversit…
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- What the buyer calls it
- Provision of Development of the IPI specimen archive
- How they are buying
- The buyer did not say
- Type
- services
- Work starts
- 14 Feb 2015
- Work ends
- 13 Apr 2016
Who the buyer named
Emma Roberts was the named contact on this notice.