Awarded contract

NDNS biomonitoring for exposure to food additives - Extension to Phase 1

Details

Buyer: Food Standards Agency
Supplier(s): CAMBRIDGE ENTERPRISE LIMITED
Value: £49,942.35
Duration: 5 months
Topic: Research and development services and related consultancy services
Published: 22 October 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Provision of analytical and research services to support the Food Standards Agency's biomonitoring programme for exposure to food additives. The contract involves the analysis and interpretation of biomarkers of non-sugar sweeteners in approximately 1,000 historic 24-hour urine samples from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) Bioresource. Services include laboratory analysis of specified sweetener biomarkers and urinary creatinine, estimation of dietary exposure based on analytical results, statistical analysis of findings, and production of a final technical report. The work represents an extension of previous biomonitoring research undertaken using NDNS samples and will generate evidence to inform future assessment of consumer exposure to food additives. ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published22 October 2026
Current notice
Completed: Award date22 October 2026
Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2027in 5 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.

Decision makers

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