Food Standards Agency tenders

28 notices on record since 6 Jul 2026 · Yorkshire and the Humber

Open tenders: 2
Total stated value: £770k; 2 of 2 state a value
Closing in 7 days: 0
Flagged SME-suitable: 2; by the buyer

Open tenders

Effect of probiotics on Campylobacter colonisation within the broiler gut
Closes 13 Oct 2026, 12:00 · £500k · SME-suitable · Research and development services and related consultancy services
Official notice on Find a Tender ↗
Determination of levels of PFAS in (+ migrating from) Food Contact Materials FCM
Closes 19 Oct 2026, 12:00 · £270k · SME-suitable · Research and development services and related consultancy services
Official notice on Find a Tender ↗

Contract awards and SME share

From 19 award notices published by Food Standards Agency between 6 Jul 2026 and 1 Oct 2026.

Supplier awards: 19; 15 different suppliers
Won by SMEs: 16%; 3 of 19 supplier awards where size declared; 16% of single-supplier contracts
Typical award value: £199k; median of 7 valued single-supplier awards
Size not declared: 0; awards excluded from the SME share

Recent awards and winners

Metagenomic Profiling of Gut Microbiome IID3: New Perspectives Infectious Intestinal Disease
University of Liverpool (Large)
£600k · Awarded 1 Oct 2026 · Award notice ↗
WP5 Social Science - The future of food regulation
The Social Agency/Basis Social Limited (Large)
Value not stated · Published 25 Sept 2026 · Award notice ↗
EU harmonised surveillance of AMR E. coli and Salmonella found in beef and pork
(Large)

About this data

Tenders come from the UK government's Find a Tender and Contracts Finder services (OCDS feeds), refreshed twice a day. A tender counts as open until its stated deadline. Values are as stated by the buyer and are often estimates. Always check the official notice before bidding.

Notices are grouped by the buyer name as published; spelling variants of the same name share this page. Award figures cover only award notices that name a supplier.

HallMark Meat Hygiene Ltd (HallMark Veterinary & Compliance Services)

Value not stated · Published 22 Sept 2026 · Award notice ↗

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

University of Lincoln (Large)

Value not stated · Published 16 Sept 2026 · Award notice ↗

External support - Future of Food Regulation Programme

IPSOS MORI UK LIMITED (Large)

£139k · Awarded 9 Sept 2026 · Award notice ↗

PATH-SAFE Genomic Data Platform - Strategy Strand

Catalytic AI (Large)

£199k · Awarded 7 Sept 2026 · Award notice ↗

PATH-SAFE Genomic Data Platform - Technical Strand

University of Oxford (Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance) (Large)

£967k · Awarded 7 Sept 2026 · Award notice ↗

Environmental Surveillance: OSMA and OSD

Fera Science Ltd (Large)

Value not stated · Published 3 Sept 2026 · Award notice ↗

Linking phenotypes to WGS from foodborne bacterial pathogens

UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) (Large)

£300k · Published 27 Aug 2026 · Award notice ↗

Car Hire

Enterprise Rent-A-Car UK Limited (Large)

£84k · Awarded 4 Aug 2026 · Award notice ↗

SME means the supplier declared itself a small or medium-sized enterprise on the award notice (or, where that notice is silent, on its most recent notice). Suppliers are matched across notices by Companies House number, other registered identifiers or name, so a few may be grouped imperfectly.