Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
Stoneleigh Park
Kenilworth
CV8 2TL
UK
Telephone: +44 76692051
E-mail: procurement@ahdb.org.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://ahdb.org.uk/
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Other: Agriculture and Horticulture
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
AHDB Farmbench Facilitation Fund
Reference number: 2018-295
II.1.2) Main CPV code
03000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
AHDB are seeking suppliers to recruit farm businesses with an arable enterprise to use the benchmarking programme Farmbench. Farmbench is AHDB’s new flagship, cross sector benchmarking programme, for use by farmers and their advisers across the UK. The programme allows users to enter data to calculate total unit costs of production, gross and net margins and anonymously compare business performance to regional and national datasets. It helps businesses to identify strengths and weaknesses, which can be used to draft a plan to improve performance. For information, Farmbench currently covers combinable crop, potato and beef and lamb enterprises.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
775 170.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
03000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
AHDB are seeking suppliers to recruit farm businesses with an arable enterprise to use the benchmarking programme Farmbench. Farmbench is AHDB’s new flagship, cross sector benchmarking programme, for use by farmers and their advisers across the UK. The programme allows users to enter data to calculate total unit costs of production, gross and net margins and anonymously compare business performance to regional and national datasets. It helps businesses to identify strengths and weaknesses, which can be used to draft a plan to improve performance. For information, Farmbench currently covers combinable crop, potato and beef and lamb enterprises and by October 2018 it will be extended to cover dairy enterprises.
For the purposes of this contract, a number of suppliers are sought to:
1) Recruit new farm businesses to Farmbench. Each business must grow at least one combinable cereal or oilseed crop in harvest years 2018 and/or 2019;
2) Support those businesses in uploading their data to Farmbench;
3) Validate each dataset ensuring completeness and accuracy;
4) Bring the farmers and/or farm managers together into groups to discuss the figures and share knowledge.
AHDB are seeking a number of suppliers to recruit in total, 2400 new farm businesses to Farmbench, with 1 200 each for harvest 2018 and harvest 2019.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Quality
/ Weighting: 70 %
Cost criterion: Price
/ Weighting: 30 %
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: 2018-295
Title: Farmbench Facilitation Fund Services
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
19/10/2018
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 21
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Tayler and Fletcher
Bourton-on-the-Water
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Assured Agronomy Ltd
Scunthorpe
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Brown and Co Property and Business Consultants LLP
Brigg
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Soil Association
Bristol
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Promar International
Nantwich
UY
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Laurence Gould Partnership
Dunfermline
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Andersons Midlands LLP
Salisbury
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group South West Ltd
Wellington
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
SAC Commercial Ltd
Edinburgh
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
The Progressive Farming Trust Ltd t/a The Organic Research Centre
Hamstead Marshall
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
DJM Consulting
Bridgnorth
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Savills UK Ltd
London
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
BNP Paribas Real Estate Advisory and Property Management UK Ltd t/a Strutt and Parker
London
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Bidwells LLP
Cambridge
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming)
Kenilworth
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
AKC
Devizes
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 775 170.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
Procurement official.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
Stoneleigh Park
Kenilworth
CV8 2TL
UM
VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures
Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
Stoneleigh Park
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
14/02/2019