Expired contract

Laboratory Information System Upgrade

Details

Buyer: Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)
Supplier(s): Thermo fisher scientific, THERMO ELECTRON LTD
Value: £462,143.4
Duration: 1 year
Topic: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Published: 20 August 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The SampleManager is the software for the Laboratory Information Management Service system is used extensively for recording animal submissions, samples and testing, facilitates reporting of disease test results and underpins statutory disease testing for notifiable diseases, reportable diseases and other zoonotic diseases (human impacting diseases with primary biological reservoir in animals). This system is critical to APHA’s management of animal disease outbreaks and assuring and facilitating international trade by demonstrating sufficient surveillance for disease-free status. The purpose of this Transparency Notice is to announce APHA’s intention to enter into a contract to upgrade the SampleManager current version (12.1) which is now out of support to 21.3 version for a year with 12 months extend options. ## Contract award Title: Laboratory Information Management System SampleManager Upgrade ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published20 August 2025
Current notice
Completed: Award date20 August 2025
Completed: Contract expiry date24 September 2026

About the buyer

Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) is an executive agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). APHA also works on behalf of the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government. Goods, services and works are acquired by competition, with single-tender contracts limited to exceptional cases. Larger purchases need procurement strategy approval from Defra's sponsor team once APHA passes its delegated authority limit.

Over the past 5 years, most of APHA's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, architectural and engineering services and research and development.

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@animal-and-plant-health-agency-apha.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@animal-and-plant-health-agency-apha.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@animal-and-plant-health-agency-apha.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@animal-and-plant-health-agency-apha.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@animal-and-plant-health-agency-apha.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@animal-and-plant-health-agency-apha.gov