Published date: 25 March 2024

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 8 March 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research services - 73110000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£38,000 to £40,000

Procurement reference

2023-672

Published date

25 March 2024

Closing date

8 March 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 April 2024

Contract end date

31 July 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Competitive quotation (below threshold)

The buyer selects a group of potential suppliers to invite to tender.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

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.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

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

  • Opportunity
  • Published 14 February 2024

Attachments

Additional text

Suppliers are required to register their interest with AHDB in order to receive clarification information. Please read page 4 of the specification for further information

Award information

Awarded date

21 March 2024

Contract start date

1 April 2024

Contract end date

31 July 2024

Total value of contract

£40,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

SAOS Ltd

Address

Newbridge

Reference

No reference - other

Value of contract

£40,000

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Attachments

Additional details

Award of contract

About the buyer

Contact name

David Eudall

Address

AHDB, Middlemarch Business Park
Siskin Parkway East
Coventry
CV3 4PE
England

Telephone

02476692051

Email

David.Eudall@ahdb.org.uk