Awarded contract

Effectiveness of interventions taken by UK slaughterhouses and cutting plants in response to unsatisfactory process hygiene criteria (PHC) results

Details

Buyer: Food Standards Agency
Supplier(s): University of Lincoln
Value: £121,636.71
Duration: 2 years
Topic: Research and development services and related consultancy services
Published: 16 September 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Development of handbook of corrective actions in the event of process hygiene failure in slaughterhouses - The FSA would like to commission a study to assess the effectiveness of interventions typically carried out by red meat and poultry slaughterhouses and cutting/processing plants within England, Wales and Northern Ireland following unsatisfactory PHC findings. ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published16 September 2026
Current notice
Completed: Award date16 September 2026
Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2028in 17 months

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.

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