Published date: 16 December 2019

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


Closing: 1 September 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research services - 73110000

Location of contract

EH9 3JG

Value of contract

£250,000

Procurement reference

tender_207676/822941

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)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

GrassToGas will determine appropriate breeding and nutritional management mitigation strategies to reduce GHG in pasture-based livestock systems. The overall aim of the project is to combine international scientific and industry expertise to generate new knowledge and applied solutions for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in sheep. The concept relates to the fact that the international sheep breeding community is at different stages of development in the creation of resource populations to generate feed intake and methane emission measurements for sheep. These are needed to specifically provide new breeding solutions for the sheep industry.

The GrassToGas partners are using different sensor technologies, measurement protocols and approaches to address the issue of reducing GHG emissions from sheep. Combining and sharing expertise and addressing knowledge gaps through collaboration in GrassToGas will ensure that consensus on the utilisation of key measurement methods as predictors of GHG emissions, feed and forage efficiency can be agreed and adopted at an international level for use in sheep breeding programmes. As the reduction in GHG emissions is a global issue, a trans-national and trans-disciplinary (breeding, nutrition, economic) approach is necessary which will be incorporated into this project by respective partners focussing on key elements of the knowledge gap for pasture-based sheep systems.

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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

Address

Peter Wilson Building, Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG

Reference

Companies House number: SC103046

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

John Forecast

Address

DEFRA
London
SW1P 3JR
England

Telephone

00

Email

Network.Procurement@defra.gsi.gov.uk