This procurement exercise is to establish the provision of turf stripping and replacement services across the Royal Botanic Kew Gardens site.
Route to Market : Below threshold closed list tender
Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens KewLondonWAC-575223
Interpretation Services for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (‘RBG, Kew’). These services include interpretation planning, research and content development and production
RBG Kew intends to procure a Supplier to carry out an ongoing visitor survey at both Kew Gardens and Wakehurst, to understand visitor profile and motivations and evaluate the visit experience in order to maintain a best-in-class experience. This includes survey review and management of the fieldwork, regular provision of data and KPI reporting, and bi-annual reporting to share key actionable insights and recommendations. The visitor survey is an existing and valuable resource for a wide range of teams across RBG Kew, helping the organisation to make data-driven decisions based on audience trends and visit feedback.
RBG Kew require a consultancy service, to expand the work developed during phase 1, to adapt AMFinder, an AI visualisation tool developed by Evangelisti et al (2021) to assess fungal-colonisation, for use with more complex field root samples. The work in phase 2 would focus on improving the accuracy of the outputs that AMFinder generates and expanding its functionality to detect different mycorrhizal types. This will build on the preliminary work carried out in phase 1, exploring the potential of a semi-supervised learning approach, and improving the user experience of the tool, by editing the dashboard interfaces and developing pipelines. The AMFinder tool should provide a method for rapid quantification of fungal colonisation in plant roots. Input to the tool will be images of ink-stained fungal structures inside roots mounted on microscopy slides, taken with a digital slide scanner (Panoramic Midi II) at RBG Kew. Adherence to data regulation and standards is essential.
Develop the current Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew brand to authentically represent the mission and purpose of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and strengthen our global position as a world-class science and conservation organisation in need of support.
The requirements are three-fold: extend our brand strategy, create a positioning strategy and deliver brand stories to help with the execution of this strategy.
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Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens KewLondonWAC-469832
RBG Kew seeks to procure a supplier to design, configure and locally deploy a visitor-facing Millennium Seed Bank Digital Assistant pilot (POC) that supports MSB education and visitor enquiry handling, including: avatar design, a structured conversation framework, and controlled ingestion/configuration of approved Kew/Wakehurst content only (from explicitly listed sources with named content owners)
Route to Market : Direct Award
Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens KewLondonWAC-575935
To procure and install 6 items of furniture for the Henry
Moore Family Trail
Call off via internal Kew Framework RBGKEW1418 - Creative Programming,
Option 1: Direct Award under Lot 1 - Design & Fabricate.
Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens KewLondonWAC-576069
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew wishes to appoint a supplier to individually sequence the whole genomes of up to 300 European ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior) at a minimum of 15x whole genome coverage via a long-read technology. Fraxinus excelsior is a diploid and has a 1C genome size of 880 Mbp.
In addition to the 300 individual ash trees, we wish to sequence a minimum of six technical replicates. Therefore, the total number of samples we wish to sequence is 306.
RBG Kew intends to supply total genomic DNA for each sample with the following metrics: minimum of 10ug DNA; minimum concentration of 30ng/ml (as measured with a Quantus flurometer dsDNA assay); at least 50% of the sample in fragments with a minimum length of 40kb; minimum OD260/280 of 1.8; minimum OD260/230 of 1.8; minimum DIN of 7.
Appointing a training provider to partner with us to design and deliver a development programme for managers at Kew and Wakehurst. The programme is aimed at those new to management, and/or have not had formal management training and is one of the ways we will promote the positive and empowering style of management that we wish to see.
Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens KewLondonWAC-514829
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew are seeking a Planning Consultant for the New Herbarium Project. The project will provide a new world-class facilities for the safe storage, use and care of more than 7 million plant specimens from 250 years of collection and research. The proposed site for the new facility is located in Thames Valley Science Park within the Borough of Wokingham. The consultant will need to provide full planning consultancy services to support a successful planning application for the new building to gain the necessary consents. Submissions will need to provide evidence of their experience and knowledge of similar projects, including working with public sector clients and on projects with a construction value in excess of £100m.