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OpenStage · planning

ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH AGENCY

Purchase, Storage and Emergency Production of Foot and Mouth Antigen and Vaccine

Medical Equipment & PharmaCPV 33651690
Value£4.5m
Deadline
Published8 Aug 2025
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
Melanie Swain
melanie.swain@defra.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£4.5mtotal contract value
median £123k
this tender£0£16.5m

This is a large award for Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,456 valued Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Defra is exploring options for supply of antigen and vaccines to the UK foot and mouth disease (FMD) vaccine bank and is seeking to identify existing and potential suppliers who have FMD vaccines with robust evidence of quality, safety, and efficacy.

We are keen to hear from suppliers who are in a position to supply suitable FMD vaccine products from early 2027 (including manufacturing lead times as necessary).

Please provide the information detailed in the section below, but please note that Defra will not consider heterologous vaccine products.

Those wishing to provide the information requested here should contact Melanie Swain (melanie.swain@defra.gov.uk), by the 8 September 2025.

Defra reserves the right to follow up with suppliers on a 1:1 basis to further understand their capabilities with regard to this requirement.

Defra is seeking this information to inform decisions around guarantees of supply to the UK market.

Therefore the estimated total value shown below is only indicative at this stage.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Defra is exploring options for supply

Defra is exploring options for supply of antigen and vaccines to the UK foot and mouth disease (FMD) vaccine bank and is seeking to identify existing and potential suppliers who have FMD vaccines with robust evidence of quality, safety, and efficacy.

02

We are keen to hear from suppliers

We are keen to hear from suppliers who are in a position to supply suitable FMD vaccine products from early 2027 (including manufacturing lead times as necessary).

03

Those wishing to provide the information requested

Those wishing to provide the information requested here should contact Melanie Swain (melanie.swain@defra.gov.uk), by the 8 September 2025.

04

Defra is seeking this information to inform

Defra is seeking this information to inform decisions around guarantees of supply to the UK market.

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

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0583a6
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
047118-2025
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