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Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
RBGKEW1513 Cacao TEA and SIRA
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01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- Not statedValue not stated in source
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this historical notice.
- Published
- 28 May 2026
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
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Direct Award
Trace element analysis (TEA) of approximately 100 cacao seed subsamples using Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) and Stable Isotope Analysis (SIRA) of approximately 60 cacao samples (both fatted & defatted fractions) using isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IR-MS). These samples were donated to Kew from various countries in South America (Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil) during the previous Defra-funded projects with World Forest ID. All samples will be sent to the supplier in January 2026 and would have to analysed and data returned by end of March 2026 following identical pipelines and MSAs/MTAs as a logical follow-on to those analysed by Fera during the previous WFID projects to maintain protection of sample and data chain of custody and continuity of data quality for standardised results and interpretation.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 73111000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 28 May 2026Notice
Notice published 28 May 2026.
Release 049995-2026
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05/ Limits
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- The source does not state a usable value.
- Only one release is held, so there is no change history.
06/ Questions
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-06a6ed
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- Stage
- award · Awarded
- Last verified
- Thu 4 Jun 2026, 08:16 BST
- Read at
- Fri 16 Oct 2026, 20:02 BST
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