Provision of Increased Seed Testing for ISTA OIC's
What the buyer wrote
European Union legislation and international treaties provide a framework for registration of new varieties of the main agricultural and vegetable crop species (National Listing), plant variety rights and certification of seed. The objectives are to facilitate the breeding of improved varieties, provide farmers with information about variety performance and to assure the quality of marketed seed. Following the UK vote to leave the EU, the way UK seed is marketed in the EU will change. When transition period ends on 31 December 2020, the UK will need to market (export) seed under third country equivalence with the EU and under OECD seed certification. This requires additional seed testing …
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- What the buyer calls it
- Provision of Increased Seed Testing for ISTA OIC's
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 4 Oct 2020
- Work ends
- 31 Mar 2022
- Kind of work
- Research, evaluation and insight
Who the buyer named
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