Published date: 23 August 2022

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


Closing: 1 July 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Laboratory services - 71900000

Location of contract

WV9 5GB

Value of contract

£13,914.45

Procurement reference

tender_308394/1096657

Published date

23 August 2022

Closing date

1 July 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 August 2022

Contract end date

31 July 2024

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?

No

Description

Defra is undertaking a focussed informal survey of approx. 350 meat and fish
products to verify compliance with compositional standards and labelling. Sample collection and screening analysis to check for labelling mis-description is being undertaken by FERA Science Ltd. Samples are analysed using an appropriate DNA-based multi-analyte screen which encompasses pork, beef, lamb,
turkey, chicken, goat and equine species. White fish samples are analysed using a
multi-analyte screen which encompasses cod, pollack and pangasius.

Those samples which are screened as positive (for a species not declared on the
label) and a proportion of screen-negative results, are to be submitted for
independent confirmatory analysis by a third-party laboratory, using
appropriate DNA-based methodology for species verification and an assessment of
how much is present; employing 1% weight for weight (w/w) as the figure above
which deliberate adulteration is implicated. It is anticipated that the screening
process will identify as 'positive' all samples where there is a greater than 0.5%
proportion of non-declared species present in a sample. However, the figure which
should be used at confirmatory analysis to indicate deliberate adulteration remains
1% (w/w).

More information

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Award information

Awarded date

3 August 2022

Contract start date

1 August 2022

Contract end date

31 July 2024

Total value of contract

£41,141.25

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Public Analyst Scientific Services Ltd

Address

i54 Business Park Wolverhampton WV9 5GB

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Nobel House
London
SW1P 3JR
England

Email

DgCEnquiries@defra.gov.uk

Website

www.defra.gov.uk