Official UK procurement notice
The Supply of Sterile Boot Swab Kits to the Animal and Plant Health Agency
Authority: ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH AGENCY (Defra Network eTendering Portal)·On behalf of: DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Animal and Plant Health Agency requires the supply and delivery of sterile boot swab sampling kits used to collect faecal material from poultry litter for laboratory testing. The kits are primarily used during official sampling undertaken as part of the UK Salmonella National Control Programme, with additional applications including research and environmental investigations.
CPV: Diagnostic kits · Laboratory reagents
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£166,666
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH AGENCY (Defra Network eTendering Portal) buys Medical consumables (CPV 3314), and who usually turns up
ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH AGENCY (Defra Network eTendering Portal)’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Medical consumables (CPV 3314) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 73 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid44% / 13%
2–344% / 17%
4–611% / 23%
7+0% / 48%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate53%
Within ±2%26%
Above estimate21%
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See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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Lot #1CPV 33Published estimate£167k
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 33. The comparison uses that group.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 251 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid24%
2–335%
4–621%
7+21%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 26 Aug 2026, 15:18 BST
- Last source update
- 26 Aug 2026, 15:18 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 30 Mar 2027
- Authority reference
P-39429- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-081435- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ece3Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 31 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 15 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
26 Aug 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 6 dates- Planning notice published64 days ago26 Aug 2026, 15:18 BST
- Today29 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 33 days1 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification questions byin 77 days15 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 93 days31 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 152 days30 Mar 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract startsin 153 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published26 Aug 2026, 15:18 BSTUK3
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRSProcuring entityCarrying out procurement on behalf of the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender