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DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS

Cereals and Oilseeds Farm and Trade Assurance processes - an independent study into how assurance works and why supply chains require it.

R&DCPV 73000000 73100000
Value£40k
Awarded8 Mar 2024
Published25 Mar 2024
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£40ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

This sits in the lower-middle of the Research & Development band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

There is a clear lack of accessible facts and insight for grower levy payers into what is required beyond the farmgate and of imported grain.

The current situation presents a material risk to farm level support for farm assurance.

As such, AHDB have been asked by industry partners to commission an independent exercise into gathering evidence on exactly how assurance processes work for domestic and imported grain and why they are needed through the supply chain.

The work will have an evidence-based foundation, with a fully independent and impartial conclusion that will be respected by the industry.

The purpose of this work is to ensure that as an industry we have independent evidence of how domestic and imported assurance processes are applied and why they are needed by primary processors.

The outcome we are aiming for is to create a clear evidence base for industry collaboration on the matter of how assurance standards are applied.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The current situation presents a material risk

The current situation presents a material risk to farm level support for farm assurance.

02

As such, AHDB have been asked by

As such, AHDB have been asked by industry partners to commission an independent exercise into gathering evidence on exactly how assurance processes work for domestic and imported grain and why they are needed through the supply chain.

03

The purpose of this work is

The purpose of this work is to ensure that as an industry we have independent evidence of how domestic and imported assurance processes are applied and why they are needed by primary processors.

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