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Awarded · ResultStage · award

ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH AGENCY

LAP COM-100 APHA LIMS

Business ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£462,143
Awarded23 Sept 2025
Published24 Sept 2025
RegionNationwide

£462,143 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded
ThermoFisher Scientific
Awarded value£462k
Award date23 Sept 2025

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

Who to contact
Wendy Ukwu
wendy.ukwu@defra.gov.uk
0207 764 3631

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£462ktotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the IT Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The SampleManager is the software for the Laboratory Information Management Service system is used extensively for recording animal submissions, samples and testing, facilitates reporting of disease test results and underpins statutory disease testing for notifiable diseases, reportable diseases and other zoonotic diseases (human impacting diseases with primary biological reservoir in animals).

This system is critical to APHA’s management of animal disease outbreaks and assuring and facilitating international trade by demonstrating sufficient surveillance for disease-free status.

The purpose of this Transparency Notice is to announce APHA’s intention to enter into a contract to upgrade the SampleManager current version (12.1) which is now out of support to 21.3 version for a year with 12 months extend options.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

This system is critical to APHA’s management

This system is critical to APHA’s management of animal disease outbreaks and assuring and facilitating international trade by demonstrating sufficient surveillance for disease-free status.

02

The purpose of this Transparency Notice is

The purpose of this Transparency Notice is to announce APHA’s intention to enter into a contract to upgrade the SampleManager current version (12.1) which is now out of support to 21.3 version for a year with 12 months extend options.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-058aed
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
059238-2025
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