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title: "2025-785 Digital Passport Preliminary Market Engagement"
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# 2025-785 Digital Passport Preliminary Market Engagement

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-785-digital-passport-preliminary-market-engagement-ocds-h6vhtk-05db7a). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** AHDB: "2025-785 Digital Passport Preliminary Market Engagement". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [AHDB](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/ahdb-gov-ot204)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Software programming and consultancy services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-785-digital-passport-preliminary-market-engagement-ocds-h6vhtk-05db7a#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05db7a`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-785-digital-passport-preliminary-market-engagement-ocds-h6vhtk-05db7a#tl-md)

## Description
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is leading the development of a Digital Grain Passport (DP) system to replace the current paper-based passports used across Great Britain’s combinable crops supply chain. The new digital platform will enable secure, real-time sharing of assurance, quality, and load data between growers, hauliers, merchants, and processors. It will integrate with existing assurance databases (Red Tractor, TASCC, SQC, UFAS) via APIs, support offline functionality for rural users, and be accessible through both web and mobile applications. Designed for simplicity, reliability, and inclusivity, the DP will enhance traceability, reduce errors, and streamline logistics while maintaining compliance with food and feed safety standards. This market engagement exercise will inform final design, costing, and funding decisions ahead of a full tender and build phase, ensuring the system meets the needs of all

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 72200000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 30/06/2026 to 30/06/2030

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F071462-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-11-06T09:04:26.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T10:46:08.979Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-05db7a