Contract for the Provision of SCF0219 (CSCFarming)

Contract summary

Industry

• Research services - 73110000

Location of contract

EH9 3JG

Value of contract

£250,000

Procurement reference

tender_207676/822950

Published date

16 December 2019

Closing date

1 September 2019

Contract start date

1 October 2019

Contract end date

30 September 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

The aim of the CSCFarming Project is to develop climate smart cattle farming systems reducing GHG and ammonia emissions while maintaining the social-economic outlook of the farm business. Key words are efficiency of production and care for climate. Central in the approach are innovative housing and manure handling systems in reducing emissions, like use of composted bedding material, separation of faeces and urine, artificial floor constructions, manure cleaning robots, cow toilets, virtual fencing and ICT data collection techniques, and precision crop fertilization. Promising feeding, breeding and grassland mitigation practices are examined to contribute to the integrated systems approach.

The Contractor's study will deliver an assessment of the environmental performance of a network of study field farms in eight EU-countries on basis of NPC balance tools and simple emission measurement methods. Researcher-farmer interaction will ensure improved performance and impact. Expert groups in each country will evaluate the outcomes, and choose practices and techniques worthwhile to be further examined in experimental set-ups. On basis of literature and the collected experimental data, promising practices and techniques will be screened for their socio-economic robustness and political implications. Next, farm systems will be built by assembling combinations of suitable practices and techniques and will be tested on pilot and experimental farms for meeting the goals of this project.

The project consortium includes nine leading research institutes plus stakeholders spread over Europe and elsewhere, providing a wide coverage of environments and farming systems. The consortium and network of farms will serve as ambassadors for climate innovative efficient farming. It has the potential to help reducing the sum of emissions by an additional 30% in 3-4 years by awareness raising and applying new techniques. Open field days, popular articles and conference seminars and electronic media are planned to spread the message.

This project targets the call holistic theme by covering the whole cattle farm, the technical theme by applying tools and innovative techniques to deal with emissions, and the societal theme by simulating and evaluating the socio-economic impact of the various practices

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More information

Attachments

• Contract for the Provision of SCF0219 (CSCFarming) - REDACTED.pdf
• Tender notice
• n/a

Additional text

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Award information

Awarded date

1 October 2019

Contract start date

1 October 2019

Contract end date

30 September 2022

Total value of contract

£250,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Scottish Rural University College

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About the buyer

Address

DEFRA
London
SW1P 3JR
England

Telephone

00

Email

Network.Procurement@defra.gsi.gov.uk