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Awarded · ResultStage · award

Swale Borough Council

The Swale - Shellfish Quality Monitoring

AgricultureCPV 03312200
Value£64,727
Awarded
Published7 May 2026
RegionNationwide

£64,727 — awarded (may include priced options or extensions).

Outcome — awarded
Marine Farm Services Limited

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

Who to contact
procurement@swale.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£65ktotal contract value
median £80k
this tender£0£1.8m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Agriculture & Farming Products band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 1,611 valued Agriculture & Farming Products tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The contract will involve the service provider collecting samples of shellfish and water in accordance with the current Food Standards Agency (FSA) and The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) relevant documents, including the Protocol for the Collection of Shellfish under the Microbiological Classification Monitoring Program and the Protocol for the Collection and Transport of Shellfish Samples for the Purposes of Official Control Monitoring of Classified Shellfish Production Areas in England and Wales: Marine Biotoxins and Chemical Contaminants.

In practical terms the service will involve taking the required amount of water and flesh samples of shellfish from classified beds in The Swale, storing and transporting shellfish to the Public Health England FWEM laboratory for analysis and all associated administration.

The contract shall commence on 1 April 2026 and terminate on 31 March 2029.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The contract shall commence on 1 April

The contract shall commence on 1 April 2026 and terminate on 31 March 2029.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

FSA food establishment approvalRegulator registrations
The contract will involve the service provider collecting samples of shellfish and water in accordance with the current Food Standards Agency (FSA) and The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) relevant documents, including the Protocol for the Collection of Shellfish under the Microbiologic…

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05ecca
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
041864-2026
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