Food Standards Agency

Contract awards

• WP9 Social Science - The impact of disruption on the UK food system

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £49.96kSource Find a Tender

  Calling off from C425727 Research: Social Science Call-Off. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is commissioning a rapid evidence review to examine how recent and ongoing disruptions to the UK food system have affected food system actors and structural aspects of the food system, and to assess the potential implications fo

  Awarded to The Social Agency/Basis Social Limited

• Health Mark Provision for approved establishments in England and Wales

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 202929 monthsValue £71.47kSource Find a Tender

  The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has awarded a contract for the manufacture and supply of health mark stamps for approved meat establishments across England and Wales. The contract includes the bulk replacement of approximately 580 health mark stamps to meet updated regulatory requirements, together with the routine and

  Awarded to Pantograph services Ltd

• Food and You 2: Waves 13-16

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 203153 monthsValue £1.20mSource Find a Tender

  In order to protect consumers, we need to understand their attitudes, knowledge and behaviour in relation to food. The Agency’s main source of methodologically robust and representative evidence regarding consumers’ attitudes, knowledge and behaviour in relation to food is our annual Official statistic Food and You 2 s

  Awarded to Ipsos (market research) Limited

• Understanding the UK markets for unlawfully imported products animal origin

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 30 Jun, 20278 monthsValue £79.99kSource Find a Tender

  Calling off from C425727 Research: Social Science Call-Off. Research to improve understanding of the drivers and enablers influencing the purchase of illegally imported products of animal origin (POAO) within the UK. The research will explore consumer behaviours, motivations, awareness of food safety and animal health

  Awarded to The Social Agency/Basis Social Limited

• Understanding consumer attitudes and behaviours around misinformation to inform communications activity to counter food safety misinformation

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £59.99kSource Find a Tender

  Calling off from C425727 Research: Social Science Call-Off. Research services to explore consumer attitudes, behaviours and trust in relation to food-related information encountered online. The work will provide evidence on how consumers engage with information and identify approaches to support effective communicatio

  Awarded to The Social Agency/Basis Social Limited

• NDNS biomonitoring for exposure to food additives - Extension to Phase 1

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £49.94kSource Find a Tender

  Provision of analytical and research services to support the Food Standards Agency's biomonitoring programme for exposure to food additives. The contract involves the analysis and interpretation of biomarkers of non-sugar sweeteners in approximately 1,000 historic 24-hour urine samples from the National Diet and Nutrit

  Awarded to CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY TECHNICAL SERVICES LIMITED

• National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) Review

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £49.55kSource Find a Tender

  As part of the FSA’s commitment to ensure food is safe and is what it says it is, the FSA undertakes food safety risk assessments in line with the internationally recognised ‘Codex Working Principles for Risk Analysis for Food Safety’. A key component of food safety risk assessment is exposure assessment, which estimat

  Awarded to Cambridge University Technical Services Limited

• Linking phenotypes to WGS from foodborne bacterial pathogens

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 202929 monthsValue £299.99kSource Find a Tender

  This requirement is a three-year research project of phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) on a subset of foodborne bacterial isolates undergoing WGS.

  Awarded to UKHSA

• Biosurveillance tools and approaches

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £100.00kSource Find a Tender

  Biosurveillance is becoming increasingly important to support food safety, public health, animal and plant health. As the volume, complexity and variety of surveillance data continue to increase, government organisations are exploring new tools, technologies and approaches to improve the collection, analysis, interp

  Awarded to Catalytic AI Ltd

• EU harmonised surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) E. coli and Salmonella found in fresh beef and pork meat on retail sale in the UK in 2027

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 30 Jul, 202821 monthsValue £134.04kSource Find a Tender

  The objective of microbiological food safety research themes is to provide robust information on the presence, growth, survival, and elimination of pathogenic microorganisms throughout the food chain; the extent, distribution, causes, risks and burden of foodborne disease will also be considered where appropriate. The

  Awarded to UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)

• Additional Analytical Methods for NDNS Biomonitoring

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 30 Jul, 20279 monthsValue £129.93kSource Find a Tender

  Tenders were invited to undertake a research project to identify suitable biomarkers of priority (groups of) Chemical Contaminants (Lot 1) and Food Additives (Lot 2), Metals (Lot 3) and develop and validate analytical chemistry methods for their quantitative measurement in human urine. In addition, an approach for esti

  Awarded to University of Aberdeen

• Metagenomic Profiling of Gut Microbiome IID3: New Perspectives Infectious Intestinal Disease

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 19 Oct, 202823 monthsValue £599.69kSource Find a Tender

  The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is an independent Government department working across England, Wales and Northern Ireland to protect public health and consumers wider interest in food. We make sure food is safe and what it says it is. The FSA are looking to appoint a supplier to deliver a research project to undertak

  Awarded to University of Liverpool

• WP5 Social Science - The future of food regulation

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 15 Jan, 20272 monthsValue £50.00kSource Find a Tender

  Calling off from C425727 Research: Social Science Call-Off. The Food Standards Agency (FSA)'s Future Food Regulation (FFR) programme aims to deliver a regulatory system that is effective, sustainable and trusted, ensuring food is safe and is what it says it is. The programme aims to establish a national approach to reg

  Awarded to The Social Agency/Basis Social Limited

• EU harmonised surveillance of AMR E. coli and Salmonella found in beef and pork

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 29 Feb, 202816 monthsValue £70.73kSource Find a Tender

  The objective of microbiological food safety research themes is to provide robust information on the presence, growth, survival, and elimination of pathogenic microorganisms throughout the food chain; the extent, distribution, causes, risks and burden of foodborne disease will also be considered where appropriate. The

  Awarded to HallMark Meat Hygiene Ltd (HallMark Veterinary & Compliance Services)

• Effectiveness of interventions taken by UK slaughterhouses and cutting plants in response to unsatisfactory process hygiene criteria (PHC) results

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 202817 monthsValue £121.64kSource Find a Tender

  Development of handbook of corrective actions in the event of process hygiene failure in slaughterhouses - The FSA would like to commission a study to assess the effectiveness of interventions typically carried out by red meat and poultry slaughterhouses and cutting/processing plants within England, Wales and Northern

  Awarded to University of Lincoln

• External support - Future of Food Regulation Programme

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £139.21kSource Contracts Finder

  Support on the Future of Food Regulation Programme- This tender was run via further competition on Government Commercial Agency (GCA) framework RM6309 Management Consultancy Framework 4, Lot 2 - Strategy and Policy.

  Awarded to IPSOS MORI UK LIMITED

• PATH-SAFE Genomic Data Platform - Strategy Strand

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 202929 monthsValue £199.33kSource Find a Tender

  This requirement is for a 24-month project to work with relevant government end user agencies to conduct further R&D across three workstreams (technical, governance, and strategy) to address uncertainties identified through the 25/26 work. The project will: • Create a robust evidence base (datasets, appraisal reports,

  Awarded to Catalytic AI

• PATH-SAFE Genomic Data Platform - Technical Strand

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 202929 monthsValue £967.00kSource Find a Tender

  This requirement is for a 24-month project to work with relevant government end user agencies to conduct further R&D across three workstreams (technical, governance, and strategy) to address uncertainties identified through the 25/26 work. The project will: • Create a robust evidence base (datasets, appraisal reports,

  Awarded to University of Oxford (Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance)

• Environmental Surveillance: OSMA and OSD

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 202929 monthsValue £1.58mSource Find a Tender

  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 surveilla

  Awarded to Fera Science Ltd

• Car Hire

  Location: Yorkshire and the Humber

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Jul, 202821 monthsValue £84.00kSource Contracts Finder

  Contract award. Provision of hire cars for FSA employees. A 12 month optional extension period is included in the contract.

  Awarded to ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR UK LIMITED