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Environmental Surveillance: OSMA and OSD

Food Standards Agency · Contract details notice on Find a Tender

Tender information last checkedLast checked 24 Sept 2026, 12:21.

Opportunity overview

The FSA has awarded a contract for delivery of a research and evidence project to strengthen the FSA’s environmental surveillance capability for foodborne disease (FBD) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The project will generate robust, transferable evidence to support a One Health approach to environmental surveillance, demonstrating the feasibility, operational value and cost effectiveness of combining a One Sample Many Analyses (OSMA) approach with targeted On Site Diagnostic (OSD) technologies, using environmental samples that are already collected across government. The requirement is to deliver a structured, phased programme of work that enables the FSA to determine where and how OSMA and OSD approaches provide added value relative to existing laboratory based, single organisation surveillance models, and where they do not. The emphasis is on evidence generation, evaluation and decision support, rather than deployment at scale.

Awarded to

Amounts belong to published awards or contracts. Where several suppliers share one value, it is labelled as shared and is not a supplier-specific allocation.

Fera Science Ltd

Matched by exact name
Contract value
£1.6m
Awarded
Not supplied
Contract signed
16 Aug 2026
Including VAT
£1.9m
Award ID
2
Status
active
Identifier
GB-PPON PDGX-4332-VPXR
Location
York, UKE22, YO21 1LZ, United Kingdom

Classification

No classification was supplied.

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
C446646
Status
complete
Procurement Method
direct
Procurement Method Details
Direct award
Why this procedure was chosen
The direct award route is compliant with the Procurement Act 2023. Schedule 5, Paragraph 6 – Technical Reasons / Absence of Competition

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Procedure reasons

Entry 1
Id
singleSuppliersTechnicalReasons

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
complete

Published documents

Entry 1
Id
conflictOfInterest
Document Type
conflictOfInterest
Description
Not published

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Name
Food Standards Agency
Id
GB-PPON-PJRM-6866-LYYX

Identifier

Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PJRM-6866-LYYX

Address

Street Address
YO1 7PR
Locality
York
Postal Code
YO1 7PR
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKE21

Contact

Roles

buyer

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Id
publicAuthorityCentralGovernment
Description
Public authority - central government
Organisation 2
Name
Fera Science Ltd
Id
GB-PPON-PDGX-4332-VPXR

Identifier

Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PDGX-4332-VPXR

Address

Street Address
York Biotech Campus
Locality
York
Postal Code
YO21 1LZ
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKE22

Contact

Roles

supplier

Details

Scale
large
Vcse
No
Public Service Mission Organization
No
Sheltered Workshop
No

Award information

Award 1
Id
2
Status
active
Main Procurement Category
services

Items

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
CPV
Id
73000000
Description
Research and development services and related consultancy services

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-PPON-PDGX-4332-VPXR
Name
Fera Science Ltd

Related lots

1

Contracts and changes

Entry 1
Id
2
Award ID
2
Title
Environmental Surveillance: OSMA and OSD
Status
active
Has Renewal
Yes
Has Options
Yes
Above Threshold
Yes
Date Signed
17 Aug 2026, 00:00

Period

Starts
17 Aug 2026, 00:00
Ends
31 Mar 2029, 23:59
Max Extent Date
30 Jun 2029, 23:59

Renewal

Description
3 month optional extension

Options

Description
Break clauses for each phase

Value

Including VAT
1,891,120.56
Amount
1,575,933.8
Currency
GBP

Agreed Metrics

Entry 1
Id
0743
Title
Deliverables carried out on time
Description
Good = KPI Performance Measure (at least 98% at all times) Approaching Target = 90 – 98% Requires Improvement = 80 – 90% Inadequate = Below 80%

Observations

Entry 1
Id
frequency

Period

Duration In Months
3
Entry 2
Id
0744
Title
Invoicing carried out as per completion of Deliverables and Schedule of Payments
Description
Good = KPI Performance Measure (at least 98% at all times) Approaching Target = 90 – 98% Requires Improvement = 80 – 90% Inadequate = Below 80%

Observations

Entry 1
Id
frequency

Period

Duration In Months
3

Documents

Entry 1
Id
083525-2026
Document Type
contractNotice
Notice Type
UK7
Description
Contract details notice on Find a Tender
Published
3 Sept 2026, 14:33
Format
text/html

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · York · UKE21 · YO1 7PR · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

3 published notice versions reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

3 VERSIONS
  1. 063969-2026Transparency notice on Find a Tender ·
  2. 063995-2026Contract award notice on Find a Tender ·
  3. 083525-2026Contract details notice on Find a Tender ·