Chemical Testing for Northern Ireland
Details
- Supplier(s)
- Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety
- Value
- £89,060
- Duration
- 4 years
- Topic
- Laboratory services
- Published
- 7 May 2025
- Source
- uk:contracts_finder
Tender description
The National Reference Laboratory(ies) for Chemical and Contaminant Testing for Northern Ireland (NI) will play a vital role in protecting consumers from illness that could arise from the consumption of food or feed contaminated with chemical contaminants such as metals, nitrogenous compounds, processing contaminants and halogenated persistent organic pollutants. The NRL will provide specialist advice as requested by the FSA and technical support to the NI enforcement process for food, feed and products thereof. This is a multiple lot tender. Tenders are invited to bid for all lots, several lots together or one lot. This is a 4 year contract with an optional 2 year extension. The estimated value of the Contract is estimated to be between £0 - £252,000 (inc VAT) for the total duration, including the 2 year extension. The FSA is not required to take the extension.
Timeline
- Completed: Award date1 April 2025
- Completed: Award published7 May 2025Current notice
- Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2029in 2 years
About the buyer
The Food Standards Agency is a non-ministerial central government department, and a commercial team runs its procurement. Every tender is advertised through the Health Family Single eCommercial System, known as Atamis, with larger opportunities also appearing on Find a Tender. Contracts Finder lists smaller opportunities separately. Crown Commercial Service and Government Commercial Service frameworks cover some procurements, with the call-off contract included in the tender. Standard contract terms scale with value, up to a model services contract for the largest projects. Suppliers register on Atamis to express interest and submit responses electronically.
Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.
Over the past 5 years, most of Food Standards Agency's contract awards have been in research and development, business services and software and information systems.
Relevant CPV codes
- 71900000 · Laboratory services
- 73000000 · Research and development services and related consultancy services
- 73111000 · Research laboratory services
Decision makers
Connect with the people behind this procurement.
| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@food-standards-agency.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@food-standards-agency.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@food-standards-agency.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@food-standards-agency.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@food-standards-agency.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@food-standards-agency.gov |
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