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London Borough of Hillingdon

Provision of an Official Veterinary Service for the Imported Food Office (LHR)

HealthcareCPV 85200000
Value£840k
Awarded5 Nov 2018
Published14 Jan 2019
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£840ktotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The London Borough of Hillingdon (LBoH) is responsible for overseeing imported food and feed controls at its Imported Food Office (IFO) located at London Heathrow Airport (LHR) within the London Borough of Hillingdon.

The LBoH employ a number of officers to carry out import controls on products not of animal origin and fishery products arriving at LHR.

The team are also responsible for issuing export certification for various products exiting the UK for destinations around the world.

European Community legislation requires imports of Products of Animal Origin (POAO) to be introduced into the United Kingdom (UK) only via an approved Border Inspection Post (BIP).

The BIP at LHR is an approved (under Directives 91/496 EEC and 97/78/EC inspection facility for both products for human consumption and products not for human consumption.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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The London Borough of Hillingdon (LBoH) is

The London Borough of Hillingdon (LBoH) is responsible for overseeing imported food and feed controls at its Imported Food Office (IFO) located at London Heathrow Airport (LHR) within the London Borough of Hillingdon.

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The team are also responsible for issuing

The team are also responsible for issuing export certification for various products.

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Source & provenance
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