# Animal Future: Steering Animal Production Systems towards Sustainable Future \(SCF0205\)

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: Defra Network eTendering Portal
- Contract winner: [SAC Commercial Ltd](/contract-winners/sac-commercial/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £100,000
- Tender value: £100,000
- Award date: 19 June 2017
- Published: 28 June 2017
- Contract start: 1 June 2017
- Contract end: 31 May 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 0f2233c0-5945-41be-ad01-77be9c2a229f-157153
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-945bc333-fe01-4638-b558-bef109c02f34

## Description

Animal-Future will design strategies for assessing and enhancing the sustainability of animal production systems \(APS\)\. Main objectives are \(i\) Assess the multi-dimensional consequences of innovations on benefits \(cash flow, income, jobs, product quality and safety, ecosystem services etc\.\) and costs \(use of scarce natural resources, health and welfare\) of APS\. \(ii\) Improve the capacity of European animal sector actors to facilitate sound changes based on a thorough understanding of mechanisms underlying trade-offs between benefits and costs\. \(iii\) Provide guidance co-designed by scientists and animal production actors through which the latter can reinforce their innovation capacity\. To achieve these, the project will \(i\) Develop a indicator-based decision support tool that will be used for assessing and benchmarking European APS according to benefits and costs induced by innovations \(from farm to region, nation and EU27\)\. \(ii\) Bring together multi-disciplinary research teams and animal production actors \(farmers, processors, breeders etc\.\) using a multi-actor approach and starting from a farm network of intensive/extensive APS across Europe\. The project's relevance to ERA-NET SUSAN stated research areas include: \(RA1\) Developing and assessing innovations that move farm management closer to the production frontier, while considering fundamental trade-offs with respect to social and environmental dimensions\. \(RA2\) Insights into how animal production sector \(from the farm to EU scale\) can increase the efficiency of feed utilization, recycle waste and exploit potentials to convert biomass resources not directly edible for humans into high-quality protein sources for human nutrition\. \(RA3\) Transparent and comprehensive accounting for on-farm practices that makes explicit a whole set of benefits and costs, at farm and larger spatial scales, thus raising the awareness of animal sector actors, citizens and policy makers about the often-neglected benefits that animal systems provide to society\. Additional information: Please note that Defra procurement uses e-tendering, provided by Bravosolutions\. In order to access the Bravo system you will need to be registered\. Could I therefore request that you register on the Bravo portal for Defra\. If you're already registered on the Bravo portal please check that your registration includes Defra, as you have to specify us in order to correctly receive the tender documents\. If you have any problems with the registration process, please contact the Bravo helpline on 0800 368 4850 or alternatively email them at help@bravosolution\.co\.uk\. The link you require for new registration/amendments to registrations is - https://defra\.bravosolution\.co\.uk

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0f2233c0-5945-41be-ad01-77be9c2a229f-157153)