Published date: 30 October 2018

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


Closing: 27 June 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Food or feed contamination protection services - 90721300

Location of contract

UB8 1UW

Value of contract

£660,000

Procurement reference

tender_174500/722804

Published date

30 October 2018

Closing date

27 June 2018

Contract start date

1 December 2018

Contract end date

30 November 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

The London Borough of Hillingdon is responsible for overseeing imported food and feed controls at its Imported Food Office located at London Heathrow Airport. European Community legislation requires imports of certain food and feed products to be introduced into the United Kingdom only via approved inspection facilities. The Imported Food Office at London Heathrow Airport is an approved inspection facility for both imports of products of animal origin, and those not of animal origin.

The London Borough of Hillingdon are looking for a supplier or suppliers that can analyse imports of feed and food for the following contaminants:

1- Lot A - Pesticide residues
2 - Lot B - Caesium-134 and Caesium-137
3 - Lot C - Microbiological contaminants
4 - Lot D - Other Miscellaneous
5 - Lot E - All of the above

The London Borough of Hillingdon reserve the right to award some or all of the tests shown above.

The majority of imports that are examined by London Borough of Hillingdon Imported Food Officers are fresh, highly perishable products. All samples taken are formal official control samples. The samples taken fall into two categories:

Those where legislation requires the consignment to be detained pending the results of analysis. An expedited turnaround time is therefore required.

Those samples taken as part of surveillance activities. The consignment is not detained pending the results of sampling. These samples are not time critical, and an expedited turnaround time is not required.

Quotations and turnaround times should be provided for both:

Consignments that have been sampled and will be detained pending the results of analysis (time critical samples).

Consignments that have been sampled and released pending the results of analysis (expedited turnaround time not required).


The detailed requirements are set out in the tender documentation that is available from the Council's e-tendering portal, www.capitalesourcing.com


More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Pesticide Residue Testing, Radiation Testing & Bacterial Testing for the Imported Food Office, London Borough of Hillingdon

  • Opportunity
  • Published 27 June 2018


Award information

Awarded date

19 October 2018

Contract start date

1 December 2018

Contract end date

30 November 2021

Total value of contract

£662,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Public Analyst Scientific Services Limited

Address

i54 Business Park, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV9 5GB, UNITED KINGDOM

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No


About the buyer

Contact name

Allison Mayo

Address

Civic Centre, High Street
Uxbridge
UB8 1UW
England

Telephone

01895 556854

Email

amayo2@hillingdon.gov.uk