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Project 36206 - TSE Rapid Testing Services

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71900000
Value£8.4m
Awarded8 Nov 2022
Published24 Feb 2023
RegionNorth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£8.4mtotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£9.1m

This is a large award for Engineering & Architecture — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The APHA currently manage, on behalf of DEFRA and the Welsh Government and Scottish Government, the provision of TSE rapid testing and related services for fallen cattle and eligible sheep and goats in Great Britain.

The purpose of the Services is to enable the APHA to meet its requirement to provide TSE Rapid Testing in line with Chapter C, Annex X of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001, as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1148/2014, which still applies since the UK's exit from the EU.

The successful contractor is required to hold and maintain TSE Test accreditation (in accordance with international standard EN ISO/IEC 17025) throughout the life of the contract.

The Authority is appointing a contractor to provide TSE Rapid Testing Services for a five (5) year period (three (3) year initial term, starting on 01/10/2023, with allowable extension of up to twenty-four (24) months). (Note that the value shown on this notice is approximate and covers the full 5-year period.)

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The purpose of the Services is

The purpose of the Services is to enable the APHA to meet its requirement to provide TSE Rapid Testing in line with Chapter C, Annex X of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001, as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1148/2014, which still applies since the UK's exit from the EU.

02

The successful contractor is required to hold

The successful contractor is required to hold and maintain TSE Test accreditation (in accordance with international standard EN ISO/IEC 17025) throughout the life of the contract.

03

The Authority is appointing a contractor

The Authority is appointing a contractor to provide TSE Rapid Testing Services for a five (5) year period (three (3) year initial term, starting on 01/10/2023, with allowable extension of up to twenty-four (24) months).

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Source & provenance
OCID
6c77d581-50c8-4993-816c-018097f283bb
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
tender_305098/1183690
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