Published date: 28 April 2025

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 1 March 2025, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

SW1P 4DF

Value of contract

£63,766

Procurement reference

CF-0486300D8d000003VQwdEAG

Published date

28 April 2025

Closing date

1 March 2025

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 April 2025

Contract end date

1 October 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Supporting development of an Agri-Tech Solution to improve precision and accuracy in the assessment of bovine tuberculosis status in cattle and other species. This proposal focusses on the development of an enhanced system for measuring inflammatory responses indirectly as change in skin thickness, which will increase measurement accuracy and reduce data transcription errors, through use of electronic technologies for data capture and data transfer, including both the utility of improved recording and transcription (e.g. via cloud-based data transfer) and changes in the recording callipers itself. This could replace traditional hand-held callipers used during Single Intradermal Cervical Comparative Test (SICCT). As well a broader scope of possible ways to augment and improve diagnostics will also be considered though no field, experimental or product development work is expected (i.e. this is a desk-based scoping exercise).

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

UK AgriTech- Supporting Development of a UK AgriTech Solution

  • Awarded contract
  • Published 22 April 2025

Attachments

Award information

Awarded date

3 April 2025

Contract start date

1 April 2025

Contract end date

1 October 2025

Total value of contract

£76,519.20

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

UK Agri-Tech Centre

Address

Innovation Centre Innovation Way York Science Park, Heslington, YORK YO10 5DG

Reference

None

About the buyer

Contact name

Defra Group Commercial

Address

2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
United Kingdom

Email

procurement@defra.gov.uk