Lough Neagh Sampling Plan - 2025-2026 (WFSR)
Details
- Supplier(s)
- Wageningen Food Safety Research
- Value
- €169,414
- Duration
- 1 year
- Topic
- Laboratory services
- Published
- 6 August 2025
- Source
- uk:find_a_tender
Tender description
The contract is for the supply of Fish Testing and Reporting services to the Food Standards Agency. The successful supplier is Wageningen Food Safety Research. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is currently undertaking a critical fish sampling and testing programme focused on cyanotoxins in fish harvested from Lough Neagh. This follows findings from the 2024/25 programme, which identified the presence of microcystins in fish flesh and anatoxins in viscera, both of which pose risks to human and animal health. Testing conducted by Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR) for: • Microcystins/Nodularin • Anatoxins/Cylindrospermopsins • Saxitoxins Please Note : The date recorded as the signed date in this UK 7 notice is incorrect. The correct signed date is 08/08/2025 ## Contract award
Timeline
- Completed: Award published6 August 2025Current notice
- Completed: Award date6 August 2025
- Completed: Contract expiry date30 July 2026
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
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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