# Authent-Net - Assessing the Transnational Knowledge Base in Food Authenticity

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS](/buyers/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Fera Science Ltd](/contract-winners/fera-science/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £62,000
- Tender value: £62,000
- Award date: 1 March 2016
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Contract start: 1 March 2016
- Contract end: 31 March 2018
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: dcc88482-7db6-432a-bbac-2095bb076681-96587
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-a95b1c04-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

This contract is to support Fera’s participation in and co-ordination of the H2020 Authent-Net: Food Authenticty Research Network project\. The project will bring together EU Member States \(national funders\) and experts to explore the current authenticity funding landscape, align national food authenticity/food fraud research programmes and develop a common strategic research agenda to tackle food fraud\. It will also establish an EU network to coordinate inter-disciplinary research and support knowledge/information exchange across Member State funders\. This network will maximise the impact of budgets by working jointly with other countries to develop tools and share data to detect food fraud providing future opportunities for leverage and collaboration 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/dcc88482-7db6-432a-bbac-2095bb076681-96587)