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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

GB-LONDON: RBGKEW1349 Succulents SIRA and TEA 2024

R&DCPV 73000000 73100000 73110000
Value£96k
Awarded21 Nov 2024
Published24 Mar 2025
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

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£96ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

This sits in the upper-middle of the Research & Development band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew wishes to appoint a supplier to apply Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis (SIRA) and Trace Element Analysis (TEA) to sample material derived from a range of succulent plant species.

Objectives of the analysis include: To characterise the chemical fingerprints of wild succulent plants threatened by illegal trade, and their use in determining the geographic origin and provenance of the plant.

Exploring the potential of an isotope marker applied through watering, to help trace cultivated plant specimens within commercial supply chains.

Please refer to the tender documents for comprehensive details of this project.

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Exploring the potential of an isotope marker

Exploring the potential of an isotope marker applied through watering, to help trace cultivated plant specimens within commercial supply chains.

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