Published date: 31 October 2022

Last edited date: 24 November 2022

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 9 December 2022, 11pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and experimental development services - 73100000

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

  • Design and execution of research and development - 73300000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£20,000

Procurement reference

WWF/CF023/0013

Published date

31 October 2022

Closing date

9 December 2022

Closing time

11pm

Contract start date

16 December 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Sodexo UK&I recently announced a comprehensive roadmap to net zero and decarbonisation of their business in the United Kingdom and Ireland, with targets such as increasing the number of plant-based meals and recipes to 33% by 2025.
Since then, Sodexo Group are developing their Net Zero strategy. In setting this strategy, Sodexo Group has also developed, tested, and are now scaling a carbon trajectory tool. This will act as a user guide to assist countries and segments to define their carbon reduction programme. However, further fixed actions, targets, and KPIs are still needed for the food element of the net zero strategy. The range of actions (levers) that are available to pull upon to achieve carbon reduction goals and helping to bend the curve on nature loss will require action not only from individual companies but wider multi-stakeholder collaboration between industry, government and third sector organisations.

Within Sodexo's sustainable actions, there is a need to work closely with clients in different segments to ensure that there is an alignment in commitment and actions towards goals, so that impact is translated at the till-level. There are barriers and actions needed for this require exploration and identification.

Project Aims:
The primary aim of this project is to develop a report on the key collaborative actions (levers) that food service businesses (such as Sodexo) can take alongside their client segments (institutions of universities/hospitals, businesses in private and public sector) to support sustainable diet offers, across all areas of food but with a focus on a shift to more plant protein sales. This must be aligned with net zero trajectory and should cover Sodexo's main global markets of UK, France, USA, and if within scope, also cover China and Brazil.

The report must primarily (1) be practicable and useful for food service and their clients, considering dynamics of this relationship, the barriers of each party and laying out actions to take (or levers to pull on) to support them.

In addition, the report will be used to create an (2) external facing client engagement tool, to be used by Sodexo staff as a blueprint for how to work with clients to engage and gain commitments on sustainable diets. This would ideally also act as an advocacy piece and encourage wide change across the food sector. Therefore, all work within (1) should bear this usage in mind.

Please see word document for further information.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Chiara Cadei

Address

The Living Planet Centre,Brewery Road
Woking
GU214LL
England

Telephone

01483 412290

Email

CCadei@wwf.org.uk