RFP QuestBeta
Awarded · ResultStage · award

Food Standards Agency

Genomic Data Platform

ValueValue not published
Awarded
Published10 Sept 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded
OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION LIMITED

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

Who to contact
fsa.commercial@food.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

The brief

The genomic data platform developed through the PATH-SAFE programme is an operational, cross-government capability which provides genomic analytics linked to contextual metadata, visualised in user friendly reports for end-users within partner UK agencies.

The platform has been built on proven expertise and infrastructure and has been co-designed using community and end-user expertise to ensure the delivery of value to end users.

Ultimately the platform is expected to provide annotations comparable between agencies through standardised best practice analytics and QC thresholds, enabling sharing of data and resources across organisations, and the rapid identification and tracking of foodborne pathogens, clusters and AMR.

The platform was made live in March 2024, equipped with analytics solely focussed on Salmonella spp., and enhanced through FY24/25 to include E.coli and Listeria analytics.

Further funding has been secured for FY25/26 to continue development of the platform as part of a National Food Surveillance Programme, seeking to build on previous project success and prior HMT investment to date.

With the platform ready for use, next steps will require deep focus on data integration (i.e. conduiting of data from individual to collective value) to the platform, deployment and further enhancement to support end user needs.

The platform utilises the capability owned by the supplier to complete analyses required to complete this project.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The platform has been built on proven

The platform has been built on proven expertise and infrastructure and has been co-designed using community and end-user expertise to ensure the delivery of value to end users.

02

Ultimately the platform is expected to provide

Ultimately the platform is expected to provide annotations comparable between agencies through standardised best practice analytics and QC thresholds, enabling sharing of data and resources across organisations, and the rapid identification and tracking of foodborne pathogens, clusters and AMR.

03

With the platform ready for use, next

With the platform ready for use, next steps will require deep focus on data integration (i.e. conduiting of data from individual to collective value) to the platform, deployment and further enhancement to support end user needs.

04

The platform utilises the capability owned by

The platform utilises the capability owned by the supplier to complete analyses required to complete this project.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05866f
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
055197-2025
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