Closed tender

Source Attribution Studies to Understand Transmission Pathways and AMR Origins

Details

Buyer: Food Standards Agency
Published: 18 August 2026
Submission: 28 September 2026
Source: uk:atamis:dhsc

Tender description

Source Attribution Studies to Understand Transmission Pathways and AMR Origins in Intestinal Infectious Disease. FSA are looking to appoint a supplier to deliver a research project to undertake whole genome sequencing enabled source attribution analysis of infectious intestinal disease (IID), using data generated through The Third Study of Infectious Intestinal Disease (IID3) and relevant datasets. The contract will run for a minimum of 24 month, with an optional 6-month extension period if required.

Timeline

Completed: Tender published18 August 2026
Current notice
Completed: Submission date28 September 2026

About the buyer

The Food Standards Agency is a non-ministerial central government department, and a commercial team runs its procurement. 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.

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.

Decision makers

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