Published date: 15 August 2024

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 11 October 2024

Contract summary

Industry

  • Analysis services - 71620000

  • Laboratory services - 71900000

  • Research laboratory services - 73111000

Location of contract

SW1P 3HX

Procurement reference

CF-0342700D8d000003VQwdEAG

Published date

15 August 2024

Closing date

11 October 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the Lead Government Department in England for co-ordinating decontamination and remediation of incident sites following attacks and major industrial accidents involving hazardous chemical and biological materials. Laboratory facilities are used for analysing environmental samples to inform decontamination and remediation decisions. Until these samples are analysed, contaminated areas would not be declared safe and habitable.
Defra wishes to undertake a market survey to understand the current availability of UK private sector and academic laboratories capable of handling the environmental sample analysis that may be necessary for chemical and biological incident recovery. This will inform Defra's contingency planning and assessment of the potential to increase 'surge' sample analysis capacity in this area.
You are invited to take part in the market survey on behalf of your laboratory. Please complete Part A (chemical analysis capability) and/or Part B (biological analysis capability) of the attached questionnaire as appropriate by entering your responses onto the document and returning the completed form in Microsoft Word format to CBRNResearch@defra.gov.uk no later than 17:00 on Friday 11th October 2024.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A MARKET ENGAGEMENT SURVEY FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Carol Caddick

Address

17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR
UK

Email

carol.caddick@defra.gov.uk