Published date: 28 July 2016

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 26 August 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Environmental safety services - 90721000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£255,000

Procurement reference

RFQ/ITT: itt__4407

Published date

28 July 2016

Closing date

26 August 2016

Contract start date

1 January 2017

Contract end date

31 December 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

****The full tender opportunity is advertised on www.capitalesourcing.com****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.

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

A. Pesticide residues
B. Caesium-134 and Caesium-137
C. Microbiological contaminants
D. Other Miscellaneous
E. All of the above

We would like to invite quotations from supplier(s) that can provide the required analysis for any or all of the above contaminants. Please indicate in your tender proposal what analyses you are able to provide.

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:

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

(B) 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.

More information

Additional text

The full tender opportunity is advertised on www.capitalesourcing.com

About the buyer

Contact name

Allison Mayo

Address

Civic Centre, High Street
Uxbridge
UB8 1UW
England

Telephone

01895556354

Email

amayo2@hillingon.gov.uk