--- title: "CivTech 9.4 - How can innovation help get venison sourced through [sustainable] deer management practices, into the food supply chain safely and quickly?" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-03dbef" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-03dbef" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03dbef.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03dbef.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Award" buyer: "FORESTRY AND LAND SCOTLAND" published: "2024-07-23" --- # CivTech 9.4 - How can innovation help get venison sourced through [sustainable] deer management practices, into the food supply chain safely and quickly? Buyer: FORESTRY AND LAND SCOTLAND Current stage: Award OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03dbef [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-03dbef) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03dbef.json) ## Summary The public procurement process for the contract titled "CivTech 9.4 - How can innovation help get venison sourced through [sustainable] deer management practices, into the food supply chain safely and quickly?" involves a tender issued by Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS). The focus is on IT services: consulting, software development, Internet, and support. This procurement aims to explore technologies enhancing deer carcass transportation and sustainability practices across Scotland. The tender is currently active with key dates being the tender period ending on 22nd August 2023 and the award period beginning on the same date. This tender offers growth opportunities for innovative tech businesses, particularly those skilled in automation and sustainability. With a total value of £650,000, it provides a significant financial incentive. The open procedure allows any organisation, team, or individual to participate, making it ideal for small to medium enterprises (SMEs) aiming to collaborate with public sector expertise. These businesses can develop new products, gain market presence, and contribute to sustainable practices, aligning with Scottish Government's objectives in climate change and biodiversity. ## Notice Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) are tasked with the humane culling of deer and transportation of deer carcases across a wide range of landscapes and terrains across Scotland. The process of retrieving the carcass to a larder facility can be time consuming, arduous, and physically challenging all of which can create inefficiencies within the system. FLS are keen to explore technologies that can automate some, or all of this process, whilst maintaining carcass quality and integrity and food hygiene standards in order to improve efficiencies, decrease the physical demands on Wildlife Rangers and support achieving the Scottish Government's Climate Change and biodiversity objectives by reducing deer densities. Please visit our website for information on CivTech and how to get involved: https://www.civtech.scot/how-to-apply-civtech-9 https://www.civtech.scot/civtech-9-challenge-4-sustainable-deer-management-practices ### Lot Information Lot 1 CivTech's mission is to drive daring and innovation in the public sector by collaboratively solving Challenges that make people's lives better - and in doing so create generations of sustainable, high growth businesses. CivTech brings together public sector expertise and private sector innovation to solve real problems, develop new products, and deliver better, faster and easier services for everyone. Central to the approach is co-production with the citizen. Part of the Scottish Government's Digital Directorate, CivTech's approach is helping transform public sector engagement with tech and innovation, delivering significant benefits to public services, producing genuine uplifts for the Scottish economy - and along the way, making lives better. Across the country there are problems public sector organisations would like to solve and in the current environment the need for smart, efficient and effective products has never been greater. The Scottish Government is aware innovation is a good way to create them and is committed to ensuring a large part of its tech spend goes to smaller, innovative businesses. This is where CivTech comes in. The CivTech Innovation Flow is designed to create products as quickly and effectively as possible, and uses a true Accelerator model at the heart of its Innovation Flow model. For you - whether you're an individual, team or company - it's an opportunity to take on a Challenge, solve it, and win contracts with a blue-chip public sector organisation. You'll build a product, and a business to take it as far as possible. Because here's the kicker: the Challenges we issue aren't 'single organisation' problems - most exist worldwide. In short: Open Challenges are set. Any organisation, team or individual can respond. Applications are assessed, and shortlisted proposals go into an Exploration Stage where they're developed further [for which participating applicants are paid]. The best go through to the Accelerator - a period of intensive work to create the solution, and through CivTech's unique business workshop system, a business capable of taking the product to the world. Please visit our website for information on CivTech and how to get involved: https://www.civtech.scot/how-to-apply-civtech-9 https://www.civtech.scot/civtech-9-challenge-4-sustainable-deer-management-practices Renewal: Extensions maybe required in order to complete work ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/022905-2024 | | 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 | | All stages | Tender, Award | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 23 Jul 2024 | | Submission deadline | 22 Aug 2023 | | Future notice date | Not specified | | Award date | 23 Jul 2024 | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £650,000 | | Lots value | £650,000 | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Cancelled | | Lots status | Cancelled | | Awards status | Unsuccessful | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | FORESTRY AND LAND SCOTLAND | | Locality | INVERNESS | | Post town | Inverness | | Postcode | IV3 8NW | | Country | Scotland | | ITL 1 | TLM Scotland | | ITL 2 | TLM2 Highlands and Islands | | ITL 3 | TLM20 Highlands and Islands | | Local authority | Highland | | Electoral ward | Inverness West | | Westminster constituency | Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire | | Delivery location | TLM Scotland | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support ### Codes - 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support ## Release History - 23 Jul 2024 at 15:16 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/022905-2024 - 23 Jun 2023 at 10:05 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/017906-2023 ## Notice URLs - https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000736324 - https://forestryandland.gov.scot - https://www.civtech.scot/civtech-9-challenge-4-sustainable-deer-management-practices - https://www.civtech.scot/how-to-apply-civtech-9 - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA30371 ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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