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DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS

PEARL MUSSEL ARK

R&DCPV 73110000
Value£193k
Awarded29 Feb 2012
Published12 Aug 2016
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£193ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

This is a large award for Research & Development — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

This is a partnership project with the Freshwater Biological Association and the Environment Agency.

The project has three main aims: 1. to maintain an ‘ark’ facility for threatened English pearl mussel populations to safeguard against further local extinction, 2. to subsequently breed from captive individuals in order to release juveniles and/or encysted fish back to the wild as part of reintroduction programmes, and 3. to carry out research into rearing juvenile mussels and reintroduction techniques.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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1. to maintain an ‘ark’ facility

1. to maintain an ‘ark’ facility for threatened English pearl mussel populations to safeguard against further local extinction,.

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