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Key facts
- Buyer
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Value
- £114,219
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Business services · Social research services (CPV 79315000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
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- Timeline
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- Contract date11 Feb 2026
- Published16 Feb 2026Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
The updated SPS (PLUS) Agreement introduces new compliance requirements aimed at simplifying agri-food trade between the UK and EU by reducing border checks and administrative burdens while maintaining food safety and biosecurity standards. These changes promise significant benefits, including increased UK exports and improved supply chain efficiency. However, SMEs, key players in food production and trade, face resource constraints and competing priorities, creating behavioural barriers that risk delaying readiness. Currently, there is limited understanding of what SMEs need to comply with SPS (PLUS) and the behavioural factors influencing their ability to adapt. These include attitudes toward regulation, perceived complexity, capacity limitations, and motivational drivers. Without targeted, evidence-based interventions, policy implementation risks being generic and less effective. This research will fill that gap by identifying behavioural barriers and enablers using the COM-B frame…
About the supplier
Thinks Insight and Strategy (Britain Thinks) Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07291125).