Awarded contract

National Reference Laboratory for Feed and Food Additives

Details

Buyer: Food Standards Agency
Supplier(s): Fera Science Ltd
Value: £382,503
Topic: Research and development services and related consultancy services
Published: 31 January 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The appointed laboratory will carry out the provision of services for the UK NRL for feed and food additives. The contract will be delivered over four years, starting 1st April 2025, to end 31st March 2029. There will be an optional 2-year extension that can be enacted by variation. Lot 1: The FSA and FSS are responsible for Official Feed and Food Controls across the UK. The UK has a legal obligation to appoint NRLs for feed and food safety. NRLs provide advice and support to food, feed, and food contact materials enforcement laboratories and the FSA and FSS to ensure a harmonised approach to food safety enforcement. NRLs are responsible for setting standards for routine procedures and reliable testing methods in the regulated areas of feed and food. This delivers consumer protection and effective, risk-based, and proportionate regulation and enforcement.<br/><br/><br/><br/>The appointed laboratory will carry out the provision of services for the UK NRL for feed and food additives.

Timeline

Completed: Award date9 January 2025
Completed: Award published31 January 2025
Current notice

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

73000000 · Research and development services and related consultancy services

Decision makers

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