Published date: 10 April 2024

Open opportunity - This means that the contract is currently active, and the buying department is looking for potential suppliers to fulfil the contract.


Closing: 11 June 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health services - 85100000

  • Miscellaneous health services - 85140000

  • Veterinary services - 85200000

Location of contract

YO1 7PR

Value of contract

£180,000,000 to £303,000,000

Procurement reference

CF-2274800D0O000000rwimUAA

Published date

10 April 2024

Closing date

11 June 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

31 March 2025

Contract end date

30 March 2030

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

This contract is for the provision of a managed service for contract Official Veterinarians (cOV) and contract Official Auxiliaries (cOA) to undertake the delivery of Official Controls in accordance with assimilated EU and UK law in Third Party Premises (Food Business Operator Premises) which are approved by FSA. These are meat establishments (slaughterhouses, cutting Premises and approved game handling establishments) which are owned and operated by a Food Business Operator. On occasion, attendance at premises under local authority control and Dairy Establishments may be required.

This is a 5 year contract with an optional 2 year extension.
The value of the Contract for all lots is estimated to be between £180,000,000 for 5 years and the total of £303,000,000 for the total duration, including the extension (£180 million - £303 million). The estimated value of each lot is indicated within the notice for each respective lot. Please note the total value of the Contract and the values on a per lot basis are estimated values and FSA expect tenderers to calculate their bids based on the cost of delivering the service for each lot that you bid for.

Tenders will be evaluated on a lot by lot basis subject to the selection criteria set out in the Qualification Envelope and the award criteria and minimum requirements set out in the Evaluation Document. There are restrictions on the number of lots that can be awarded to a Tenderer subject to certain exceptions as set out in the Contract Notice Wording Document.

The FSA may request the Supplier to provide Services to certain other government departments as listed in Annex 3 of the Specification.

Tenders should review all information issued in order to prepare their response to the Qualification Envelope, Tender Response and Commercial Input Template. This is set out in the ITT, TUPE and Immigration Wording Document, Specification, Contract, Qualification Envelope, Evaluation Document, Contract Notice Wording Document.

The FSA does not bind itself to accept any tender and is not liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest or tendering for this opportunity.

Where the FSA chooses to award a Contract for any Lot, this will be subject to the Contract issued within the ITT documents.

More information

Additional text

To express interest and participate in the tender, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome.

Should Tenderers have any queries, or having problems using the portal, they should contact Helpdesk at:

Phone: 0800 9956035

E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk

How to apply

Follow the instructions given in the description or the more information section.

About the buyer

Contact name

FSA Commercial

Address

Foss House
York
YO1 7PR
United Kingdom

Email

fsa.commercial@food.gov.uk