AFBI - Supply and Delivery of Transmissibile Spongiform Encephalopathy Rapid Test Kits

Buyer

Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute

Value

£600,000

Closes

23 November 2026

Where

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Type

Open tender

In plain English

The Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), a Northern Ireland public research body, wants to buy rapid test kits used to screen for TSE, a group of fatal brain diseases in animals such as BSE (mad cow disease). The kits must be of a type approved by the European Commission under Regulation (EC) 999/2001, and the total contract is worth about £600,000.

What the buyer wants

• Supply and deliver TSE rapid test kits of an EC-approved format, over the life of the contract • Supply, deliver and maintain any equipment needed to run the rapid test • Provide ongoing technical support for the test method and the equipment

Likely requirements

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The kits must be from an EC-approved test format, so any supplier that is not the manufacturer or an authorised distributor of that specific product cannot bid, which rules out most small businesses.

How to bid

This is an open tender: any eligible business can respond directly to the buyer by the deadline, with no framework membership needed.

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