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title: "LED 4 Food Project - Data Partner"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-055655"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "WASTE & RESOURCES ACTION PROGRAMME"
published: "2025-06-30"
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# LED 4 Food Project - Data Partner

Buyer: WASTE & RESOURCES ACTION PROGRAMME  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-055655

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## Summary

The procurement process conducted by the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), located in Banbury, United Kingdom, involved the award of a contract titled "LED 4 Food Project - Data Partner" within the services sector. This project is an effort supported by Defra to enhance the HESTIA database with impactful environmental data related to the agri-food system. The process followed a direct procurement method, culminating in the award stage. Key dates include the award document publication on 30 June 2025 and the contract period beginning on 9 July 2025, lasting until 28 February 2026. The procurement was awarded to Cool Farm Alliance Community Interest Company, a small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) based in Lincolnshire, UK.

This procurement presents valuable opportunities for businesses engaged in environmental data analysis and agricultural consultancy to consider partnerships. Given its focus on refining agricultural data for environmental monitoring, companies proficient in data management and agricultural sustainability metrics are well-positioned to leverage this tender to expand their market influence and expertise. Companies with experience in working with publicly available databases and those seeking to utilise their data for eco-labelling and emissions reporting will find this contract particularly beneficial for business growth and sector positioning.

## Notice

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. To view this notice, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=958743221

### Procurement Information

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.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/036266-2025 |
| Notice type | UK5 - Transparency Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Direct |
| Procurement method details | Direct award |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 30 Jun 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 30 Jun 2025 |
| Contract period | 8 Jul 2025 - 28 Feb 2026 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £30,600 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Pending |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | WASTE & RESOURCES ACTION PROGRAMME |
| Locality | BANBURY |
| Post town | Oxford |
| Postcode | OX16 5BH |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLJ South East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLJ1 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire |
| ITL 3 | TLJ14 Oxfordshire CC |
| Local authority | Cherwell |
| Electoral ward | Banbury Cross and Neithrop |
| Westminster constituency | Banbury |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | COOL FARM ALLIANCE COMMUNITY INTEREST |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

### Codes

- 79900000 - Miscellaneous business and business-related services

## Release History

- 30 Jun 2025 at 21:24 - Award - UK5 - Transparency Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/036266-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/036266-2025
  30th June 2025 - Transparency notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=958743221
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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