Official UK procurement notice
Environmental Benchmarking · UK public procurement notice
Authority: AHDB
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAHDB will provide environmental benchmarking (Envirobench) to the industry. Leading to improved resource efficiency, improved on-farm decision making, and measurable improvements in business performance and environmental performance. This Envirobench approach will provide the industry standard approach of gathering evidence on how farm practices effects the environmental impact and economic benefits. It will provide understanding of the differences in practise on greenhouse gases (GHGs) and diffuse pollution and highlight the options for improvement. It will allow farms to provide robust evidence required under new Environmental Land Management Scheme to access public funding.
The project will develop a calculation engine at the heart of a digital platform connecting farm and national datasets. DEFRA are providing access to the NAEI to build into the calculation engine which they own. RSK-ADAS Ltd manage and host the NAEI code and data for DEFRA. (NAEI - National Emission Inventory)
CPV: Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services · Database systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32009L0081 Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 (Directive 2009/81/EC)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 3 Feb 2021, 22:56 GMT
- Last source update
- 3 Feb 2021, 22:56 GMT
- Authority reference
ER0778- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-002210- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-029009Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
The project will develop a calculation engine at the heart of a digital platform connecting farm and national datasets. DEFRA are providing access to the NAEI to build into the calculation engine which they own. RSK-ADAS Ltd manage and host the NAEI code and data for DEFRA. Under instruction from DEFRA, AHDB are required to work with RSK-ADAS Ltd to access the National Emission Inventory database as critical to the success of the project and to further protect the integrity of the NAEI.
AHDB are unable to procure services due to the technical rights as described by DEFRA due to Supplier owning and managing the coding, hosting and operational management of the inventory of model on Defra behalf. (National Emission Inventory database)
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| RSK ADAS LimitedEnvironment Benchmarking (Envirobench)Subcontracting: declared | £440,160 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Environment Benchmarking (Envirobench) · RSK ADAS Limited
- Signed
- 4 Jan 2021
- Value
- £440,160
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- DEFRAReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- RSK-ADAS LtdAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.