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The Food Standards Agency

FS616026 NATIONAL REFERENCE LABORATORY for Foodborne Virus including Bivalve Molluscs

R&DCPV 73111000
Value£345k
Awarded11 Feb 2021
Published16 Jun 2021
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£345ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

This is a large award for Research & Development — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The appointed laboratory will carry out the provision of services for the UK National Reference Laboratory for Foodborne Viruses.

The NRL for Foodborne Viruses plays a vital role in protecting consumers from illness that could arise from the consumption of unsafe foods, by providing specialist advice and technical support to the UK enforcement process for food.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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The NRL for Foodborne Viruses plays

The NRL for Foodborne Viruses plays a vital role in protecting consumers from illness that could arise from the consumption of unsafe foods, by providing specialist advice and technical support to the UK enforcement process for food.

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Stage
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