Scope
Reference
VFU041-GEN
Description
Since November 2022, WRAP and partners have been working on the LED 4 Food project. This is a Defra funded, multiyear project on improving public data which will be achieved by updating, harmonising and simplifying the Hestia platform, creating an accessible web-based database and testing outputs with UK businesses via UKFDP. Defra needs to understand and report the environmental impact of activities related to the agri-food system. At present, the available data, standards, methodologies and tools for effective monitoring, reporting and validation (MRV) of the environmental impact data from the agri-food system is limited and generally provided by a diversity of disjointed initiatives with differing level of quality. To enable company level scope 3 emissions reporting and food eco-labelling requires accessible, high quality, reliable data sources, standardised for the entire food system. This project aims to support this objective through the production of high quality, trusted data to measure the environmental impact of agricultural and food products and activities within the agri-food system.
WRAP are therefore looking to procure a data supplier to work with Oxford University, project partners on LED4Food (VFU041-GEN), to improve the breadth, quality and specificity of environmental impact data for agricultural products and food products on the (publicly available) HESTIA database.
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Contract 1
Supplier
Contract value
- £30,600 including VAT
Below the relevant threshold
Earliest date the contract will be signed
8 July 2025
Contract dates (estimated)
- 9 July 2025 to 28 February 2026
- 7 months, 23 days
Main procurement category
Services
CPV classifications
- 79900000 - Miscellaneous business and business-related services
Contract locations
- UK - United Kingdom
Procedure
Procedure type
Direct award
Direct award justification
Single supplier - technical reasons
WRAP wish to directly award Cool Farm as they are best placed to deliver this work. They hold the type of data WRAP require to plug gaps in the HESTIA database. Oxford have worked hard to develop this relationship and have been in negotiations with Cool Farm to establish a data sharing agreement. This has not been a straightforward process as private companies are cautious of sharing their data publicly, so we've done a lot of groundwork to get to this point.
Supplier
Cool Farm Alliance Community Interest Company
87B WESTGATE, GRANTHAM
LINCOLNSHIRE
NG31 6LE
United Kingdom
Contact name: David McMahon
Email: product@coolfarmtool.org
Region: UKF30 - Lincolnshire
Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): Yes
Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): Yes
Contract 1
Contracting authority
Waste & Resources Action Programme
- Public Procurement Organisation Number: PCTJ-5948-ZJZV
Ground Floor, Blenheim Court, 19 George Street
Banbury
OX16 5BH
United Kingdom
Region: UKJ14 - Oxfordshire
Organisation type: Public undertaking (commercial organisation subject to public authority oversight)