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Department for Business and Trade
Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) Outsourced Product Testing
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £35,000,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 29 Nov 2024
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) expects to publish a contract opportunity relating to its requirement for outsourced product testing for the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS). DBT intends to introduce a multi-year, multi-lot framework for the provision of various types of testing across multiple years.
DBT are requesting Expressions of Interest ("EOI") pertaining to this requirement. Please email: commercialbpo@businessandtrade.gov.uk by 10th January 2025 in order to register your interest.
At this stage, DBT wishes to understand the size and capability of the supply market.
Information that it gathers will be used to refine requirements to ensure they are fit for suppliers to deliver against. Meetings will also be held directly with interested participants at a future date, subject to capacity.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 71632200
- 73111000
- 71600000
- 73430000
- 71900000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 29 Nov 2024Planning notice
Planning notice published 29 November 2024.
Release 038553-2024
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05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- Only one release is held, so there is no change history.
06/ Questions
About this notice
07/ Related
Where to go next
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-04c108
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Last verified
- Mon 6 Apr 2026, 16:24 BST
- Read at
- Fri 16 Oct 2026, 23:31 BST
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