Published date: 16 April 2024

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Social research services - 79315000

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West, Scotland, Wales

Value of contract

£42,486.75

Procurement reference

tender_421540/1343938

Published date

16 April 2024

Closing date

1 November 2023

Closing time

12am

Contract start date

1 November 2023

Contract end date

31 October 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

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

HMPPS Catering, the MoJ's Science Office and the Climate Change and Sustainability Unit are trying to conduct an innovative research project aimed to improve prisoner nutrition and dietary outcomes and reduce food waste.

The primary aims of this project are to assess whether a browser-based nutrition education intervention delivered through in-cell technology in combination with the implementation of a new menu system, at various prisons can:
- Improve the nutritional quality of dietary choices and through this, improve self-reported health and wellbeing.
- Deliver insight into the relative proportion of food waste created in prison kitchens, serveries and cells so that we can target future interventions.
- Identify the meals that are wasted most frequently over the course of three prison menu cycles and understand the reasons why.
- Understand whether a correlation exists between the nutritional quality of food and food waste.
- Understand whether a correlation exists between food, food waste and prisoner well-being and behaviour

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About the buyer

Address

5 Wellington Place
Leeds
LS1 4AP
England

Email

mojprocurementfood@justice.gov.uk