Scale proven concept software to meet UK dynamic food procurement need for public sector

COVID-19封锁导致全国各地大量中小企业食品生产商面临风险，如果他们的业务过度集中于受严重影响的客户群。英国的中小企业初级食品生产商需要帮助，通过多样化供应渠道来吸引新客户。从历史上看，由于进入壁垒过高，中小企业食品生产商能够接触到公共部门客户的比例很低。英国的食品安全高度依赖于中小企业食品生产商在全国各个地区的存在。我们对该项目的愿景是促进英国范围内，中小企业包容，动态食品采购，履行和交付能力的公共部门食品买家。我们的目标是转移英国公共部门食品和饮料支出的33%到新鲜，到2023年，从可持续的中小企业生产商和供应商获得当地农产品。该项目的主要重点领域是将一个经过验证的技术平台转变为巴斯和东北部萨默塞特（巴内斯）试点项目中的动态食品采购先驱。通过使其在英国所有地区使用来扩大规模。因此，项目资金将用于加速我们现有平台的开发：* 准备在多个地区使用 * 供第三方物流供应商使用 * 以提供增强的功能，管理更多具有更高复杂性的履行能力的中小企业生产商的履行。影响力资金的扩展将通过进一步增强第三方物流供应商的系统来增加项目的影响力和上市速度。额外的工作将开发一个物流供应商管理中心，使这些第三方能够轻松访问成功履行和交付动态采购订单所需的所有功能。动态食品采购使政府能够直接从一系列初级生产者那里采购食品。它使采购商能够在订单点购买食品，并实现供应链的完全透明。这使得购买决定的生产食品，这反过来又可以使生产者谁是生产食品可持续发展（环境友好，生物多样性友好和社会责任），通过接收订单的20亿英镑每年花费在食品成分在公共部门内增长他们的业务。这意味着许多以前不能向公共部门供应的中小企业食品生产商现在可以这样做了。因此，动态食品采购有多种好处。这些措施包括：* 改善食品供应链中的食品安全、来源透明度和问责制 * 改善食品生产的能源、废物、社会和环境因素，包括动物福利的表现 * 减少与饮食有关的疾病负担 * 建立向弱势群体提供食品的供应链 * 促进英国各地区的区域经济 * 提高公共资金的价值并降低成本

The Covid-19 lockdown has resulted in large numbers of SME food producers across the country being put at risk if their business was overly concentrated on a heavily impacted customer base. SME primary food producers in the UK need help to reach new customers by diversifying their supply channels. Historically, a very low proportion of SME food producers have been able to access public sector customers due to prohibitive barriers to entry. UK food security is highly dependent on the presence of SME food producers in every region of the country.Our vision for this project is to facilitate UK-wide, SME-inclusive, dynamic food procurement, fulfilment and delivery capabilities for public sector food buyers.Our objective is to divert \>33% of UK public sector food and drink spend to fresh, local produce from sustainable SME producers and suppliers by 2023\.The main area of focus for this project is to transition a proven technology platform that pioneered dynamic food procurement in a pilot project in Bath and North East Somerset (BANES) to scale by making it available for use in all regions across the UK. As such, project funds will be used to accelerate the development of our existing platform:* to be ready to be used in multiple regions* to be used by 3rd party logistics providers* to provide enhanced functionality to manage fulfilment from more SME producers with higher complexity of fulfilment capabilitiesThe Extension for Impact funding will increase the project’s impact and speed to market by further enhancing the system for the 3rd party logistic providers. The additional work will develop a logistic provider management centre allowing these third parties to easily access all the functionality required to successfully fulfil and deliver dynamic procurement orders.Dynamic Food Procurement enables government to procure food directly from a range of primary producers. It enables the procurer to buy food at the point of order with full supply chain transparency. This enables buying decisions on the production of food which, in turn, can enable producers who are producing food sustainably (environmentally friendly, biodiversity friendly and socially responsibly) to grow their business by receiving orders out of the £2Billion spent annually on food ingredients within the public sector. It means that many SME food producers that couldn't previously supply the public sector, can now do so.So, there are multiple benefits of dynamic food procurement. These include:* improved food security, transparency of provenance and accountability within food supply chains* improved performance on energy, waste, social and environmental factors of food production including animal welfare* reduced diet related disease burden* a supply chain to deliver food to vulnerable individuals* boosted regional economies in every region of the UK* improved value and reduced cost for public purse