Notice Information
Notice Title
DAERA - The Carbon Footprinting Project
Notice Description
DAERA require a Supplier to provide the administration, delivery, support and maintenance of a Carbon Footprinting Project farm carbon calculator which will provide farm businesses with their farm carbon footprint. Training will be provided to assist farmers to use the information received to take appropriate action to reduce net GHG emissions on their farm. The Carbon Calculator procured for this project will be used on all Northern Ireland farms, and requires 28,400 farm carbon footprints to be completed over the next four financial years (2024/25 - 2027/28).
Lot Information
Lot 1
DAERA require a Supplier to provide the administration, delivery, support and maintenance of a Carbon Footprinting Project farm carbon calculator which will provide farm businesses with their farm carbon footprint. Training will be provided to assist farmers to use the information received to take appropriate action to reduce net GHG emissions on their farm. The Carbon Calculator procured for this project will be used on all Northern Ireland farms, and requires 28,400 farm carbon footprints to be completed over the next four financial years (2024/25 - 2027/28).
Options: Optional extension periods of 12 months plus 12 months.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0469ce
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/075496-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
16 - Agricultural machinery
34 - Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
48 - Software package and information systems
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services
77 - Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services
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- CPV Codes
16000000 - Agricultural machinery
34000000 - Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
48000000 - Software package and information systems
48100000 - Industry specific software package
48218000 - License management software package
48430000 - Inventory management software package
48781000 - System management software package
72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
72300000 - Data services
73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services
73100000 - Research and experimental development services
73200000 - Research and development consultancy services
73300000 - Design and execution of research and development
77000000 - Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services
77100000 - Agricultural services
77110000 - Services incidental to agricultural production
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £2,500,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £2,500,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 20 Nov 20253 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 20 Jun 2024Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 20 Nov 20253 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Cancelled
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Unsuccessful
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ENVIRONMENT AND RURAL AFFAIRS
- Contact Name
- Northern Ireland Civil Service
- Contact Email
- ssdadmin.cpd@finance-ni.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BELFAST
- Postcode
- BT3 9ED
- Post Town
- Northern Ireland
- Country
- Northern Ireland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLN Northern Ireland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLN0 Northern Ireland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLN06 Belfast
- Delivery Location
- TLN Northern Ireland, TLN0 Northern Ireland
-
- Local Authority
- Belfast
- Electoral Ward
- Sydenham
- Westminster Constituency
- Belfast East
Further Information
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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