Published date: 3 March 2020
Last edited date: 31 March 2020
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Contract summary
Industry
Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products - 03000000
Pigs - 03323000
Location of contract
East of England
Value of contract
£0
Procurement reference
tender_225210/815815
Published date
3 March 2020
Closing date
30 June 2020
Contract start date
15 September 2020
Contract end date
31 August 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
AHDB is seeking services/expertise for the delivery of a national pig carcase classification approval trial in Great Britain, including scientific and statistical expertise, CT scanning service (equipment and technicians to operate it) and carcase dissection technicians.
The current system of assessing the value of a pig carcase is inadequate for the effective transmission of market signals from consumer to producer and through exploration it has been concluded that there are two new classification devices that should be tested to evaluation their potential to provide a more complete assessment of yield from the carcase.
AHDB is therefore planning an evaluation trial for these classification devices in 2020 and are seeking the provision of interrelated expert services to support the delivery of the trial:
1. Scientific and statistical expertise. This expertise may be required for 20 to 40 days from September 2020 to March 2021 with potential further adhoc services until August 2021.
2. Provision of a mobile Computer Tomography scanning service (CT equipment and technician/s) for the determination of reference lean meat content in pig carcases. The duration will be 20 to 40 consecutive days between November to February 2021.
3. Dissection technicians to undertake the physical anatomical dissection of 27 pig carcases for "validation" of the CT reference method. The duration will be 20 to 40 consecutive days between November to February 2021.
Bids are sought from individual suppliers or collaborations/consortia that can offer the FULL PACKAGE of the three listed components. 2. If this is not possible, AHDB will accept proposals for provision of one or two part/s of the package. Parties interested in receiving the full specification and relevant details, please email: procurement@ahdb.org.uk
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If you are interested in receiving the tender documentation, please email: procurement@ahdb.org.uk
Please note: The timelines for this project was extended on the 31/03/2020 due to current Coronavirus situation. The documents contain all the timeline updates.
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