Published date: 1 February 2022

Last edited date: 4 February 2022

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


Closing: 19 November 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£94,854

Procurement reference

tender_287977/1038087

Published date

1 February 2022

Closing date

19 November 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 February 2022

Contract end date

30 September 2022

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?

Yes

Description

Applicants are invited to submit tenders to plan a full-scale inter-laboratory collaborative trial on the methods that were developed under Defra project FA0171 on the quantitation of horse DNA in processed beef and pork DNA in raw and processed beef. The proposed collaborative studies should follow the principals of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) (IUPAC protocol on design, conduct and interpretation of collaborative studies) and the European Network of GMO laboratories (ENGL) (Definition of minimum performance requirements for analytical methods of GMO testing).

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Inter-laboratory collaborative trial of real-time PCR method for the relative quantitation of horse DNA and pork DNA in raw and processed beef DNA

  • Opportunity
  • Published 18 October 2021, last edited 16 November 2021

Attachments

Award information

Awarded date

28 January 2022

Contract start date

1 February 2022

Contract end date

30 September 2022

Total value of contract

£94,854

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Fera Science Ltd

Address

York Biotech Campus, Sand Hutton, York, North Yorkshire, YO41 1LZ, UNITED KINGDOM

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Foss House, Peasholme Green
York
YO1 7PR
England

Email

fsa.procurement@food.gov.uk