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CEFAS

CEFAS22-122 FSS Phytoplankton testing and analysis

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71000000 71600000
Value£1,848,762
Awarded5 Dec 2022
Published16 Jun 2023
RegionUK-wide

£1,848,762 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£1.8mtotal 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.

The brief

Current legislation requires that classified shellfish production areas are monitored for microbiological contamination, marine biotoxins, harmful algae and chemical contamination.

This forms part of an official control monitoring programme.

In Scotland, Food Standards Scotland (FSS) is the competent authority with responsibility for the implementation and delivery of the Scottish shellfish official control (OC) monitoring programme.

Cefas is the laboratory designated by FSS to provide a completely managed, high quality service for the provision of this programme across Scotland.

Services delegated to Cefas include co-ordinating the programme, arranging the collection of samples and delivering the required testing, and this in line with relevant national legislation as well as FSS policies and protocols.

This appointment is to deliver the water monitoring element of this programme, testing samples to assess concentrations of harmful algae in Scottish classified shellfish production areas, within the context of the FSS OC monitoring programme.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Cefas is the laboratory designated by FSS

Cefas is the laboratory designated by FSS to provide a completely managed, high quality service for the provision of this programme across Scotland.

02

This appointment is to deliver the water

This appointment is to deliver the water monitoring element of this programme, testing samples to assess concentrations of harmful algae in Scottish classified shellfish production areas, within the context of the FSS OC monitoring programme.

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