RFP QuestBeta
OpenStage · planning

Business Energy and Industrial Strategy

Provision of scientific and technical advice for product safety applications

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71600000
Value£360k
Deadline
Published18 May 2021
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
Alastair Hooley
procurement.opss@beis.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£360ktotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.0m

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.

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The brief

The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), part of the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) requires high quality scientific advice on the latest developments in product safety.

This contract should cover all product areas regulated by the Office (found here) with a particular focus on cosmetics, toys, childcare articles, textiles, fireworks and aerosols.

Advice and support is required to identify and address risks (predominantly chemical) relating to consumer products.

As well as drawing on your expert knowledge, we expect the supplier/s to have an excellent understanding of wider cross-cutting chemical regulations and relevant technical standards.

This advice is crucial for OPSS to dispense our responsibilities to ensure regulation is based on the latest scientific evidence, in order to protect consumers and support business.

It is proposed the contract will be of 1 year duration with an option to extend by 2 additional years in 1-year increments.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

This contract should cover all product areas

This contract should cover all product areas regulated by the Office (found here) with a particular focus on cosmetics, toys, childcare articles, textiles, fireworks and aerosols.

02

Advice and support is required to identify

Advice and support is required to identify and address risks (predominantly chemical) relating to consumer products.

03

This advice is crucial for OPSS

This advice is crucial for OPSS to dispense our responsibilities to ensure regulation is based on the latest scientific evidence, in order to protect consumers and support business.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02b23d
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
010956-2021
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