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Published 30 Jun 2025, 22:24 BST

Official UK procurement notice

LED 4 Food Project - Data Partner

Official notice

Authority: Waste & Resources Action Programme (Public body)

Direct award
Awarded value£30,600published award · inc. VAT
Award in standstill Not publishedno call for competition
Award (standstill) to Cool Farm Alliance Community Interest Company

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Since November 2022, WRAP and partners have been working on the LED 4 Food project. This is a Defra funded, multiyear project on improving public data which will be achieved by updating, harmonising and simplifying the Hestia platform, creating an accessible web-based database and testing outputs with UK businesses via UKFDP. Defra needs to understand and report the environmental impact of activities related to the agri-food system. At present, the available data, standards, methodologies and tools for effective monitoring, reporting and validation (MRV) of the environmental impact data from the agri-food system is limited and generally provided by a diversity of disjointed initiatives with differing level of quality. To enable company level scope 3 emissions reporting and food eco-labelling requires accessible, high quality, reliable data sources, standardised for the entire food system. This project aims to support this objective through the production of high quality, trusted data to measure the environmental impact of agricultural and food products and activities within the agri-food system.

WRAP are therefore looking to procure a data supplier to work with Oxford University, project partners on LED4Food (VFU041-GEN), to improve the breadth, quality and specificity of environmental impact data for agricultural products and food products on the (publicly available) HESTIA database.

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The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Direct award
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
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
30 Jun 2025, 22:24 BST
Last source update
30 Jun 2025, 22:24 BST
Authority reference
VFU041-GEN
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-036266
Latest notice
Transparency notice (UK5)
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-055655 Find a Tender
Why no open competition
Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
Published justification

WRAP wish to directly award Cool Farm as they are best placed to deliver this work. They hold the type of data WRAP require to plug gaps in the HESTIA database. Oxford have worked hard to develop this relationship and have been in negotiations with Cool Farm to establish a data sharing agreement. This has not been a straightforward process as private companies are cautious of sharing their data publicly, so we’ve done a lot of groundwork to get to this point.

Notice history

2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 30 Jun 2025
  1. Transparency notice published
    30 Jun 2025, 22:24 BST
    UK5
  2. Contract signature expected
    8 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
    scheduled

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1some still in standstill
Awarded value (inc. VAT) £30,6001 award inc. VAT; no net value published
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Cool Farm Alliance Community Interest CompanySMEVCSE9 Jul 2025 – 28 Feb 2026£30,600 inc. VAT—Standstill

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Waste & Resources Action Programme

Contracting authorityPublic undertaking GB-PPON: PCTJ-5948-ZJZV Ground Floor, Blenheim Court, 19 George Street, Banbury, South East, OX16 5BHContact name, email, phone

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

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