Environmental Surveillance: OSMA and OSD
Details
- Supplier(s)
- Fera Science Ltd
- Value
- £1,575,933.8
- Duration
- 3 years
- Topic
- Research and development services and related consultancy services
- Published
- 8 July 2026
- Source
- uk:find_a_tender
Tender description
The FSA has awarded a contract for delivery of a research and evidence project to strengthen the FSA’s environmental surveillance capability for foodborne disease (FBD) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The project will generate robust, transferable evidence to support a One Health approach to environmental surveillance, demonstrating the feasibility, operational value and cost effectiveness of combining a One Sample Many Analyses (OSMA) approach with targeted On Site Diagnostic (OSD) technologies, using environmental samples that are already collected across government. The requirement is to deliver a structured, phased programme of work that enables the FSA to determine where and how OSMA and OSD approaches provide added value relative to existing laboratory based, single organisation surveillance models, and where they do not. The emphasis is on evidence generation, evaluation and decision support, rather than deployment at scale. ## Contract award Title: Environmental Surveillance - OSMA and OSD ## Contract award
Timeline
- Completed: Award published8 July 2026Current notice
- Completed: Award date8 July 2026
- Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2029in 3 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
- 73000000 · Research and development services and related consultancy 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 |
105 similar open tenders
See more open tenders related to Environmental Surveillance: OSMA and OSD.
- Open tender
Rotherham Local Area Energy Plan
- Open tender
Local Area Energy Plan (LAEP)
Related buyers
Buyers similar to Food Standards Agency.
- 262£10.8bn
- 172£146.3m
- 99£31.4m
- 98£143.2m
- 56£46.5m
- 44£12.7m
- 44£3.0m
- 43£20.2m
- 16£3.9m
- 12£1.4m
Win more public sector contracts
Track every UK and Ireland tender in one place — set up alerts, find decision-makers, and never miss an opportunity.
