Project to Improve School Food Procurement Practices
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS · UK-wide · up to £2,000,000
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What the buyer wants
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs seeks a project to improve school food procurement practices to enhance food quality, sustainability, reduce waste, and engage pupils better with the food system, supporting government ambitions for higher environmental standards in public sector food.
The Government seeks to improve public sector food procurement (PSFP). Subject to legal constraints, it aims for half of all public sector food to be locally produced or certified to higher environmental standards. The new National Procurement Policy Statement, published in February 2025, sets expectations for government contracts to favour products meeting higher environmental standards.
This project supports these ambitions by improving school food procurement practices which will lead to enhanced food quality and sustainability, reduced food waste and primary and secondary pupils being better engaged with the food system.
Schools account for approximately half of public sector food and catering expenditure and are therefore central to delivery of PSFP ambitions. This is particularly important given childhood obesity and persistent health inequalities. In England, about one in three children leave primary school overweight or obese;
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Services required
- School catering services
Lots
- Lot 1 (up to £2,000,000)
Key facts
- Buyer: DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS
- Estimated value: up to £2,000,000
- Deadline: 25 November 2026
- Location: UK-wide
- Published on: Find a Tender
- First seen by Tenderoo: 28 October 2026
- CPV: 55524000
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