Official UK procurement notice
Exposure assessment tool (EAT) and additional services
Authority: The Food Standards Agency (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTenders are invited for the provision of an EAT for the FSA which will enable the use of dietary survey data to conduct exposure assessments in the context of food safety risk assessment.
A specialised software tool is required to undertake exposure assessments for food safety risk assessment. The tool must be capable of using UK consumption data from dietary surveys such as NDNS and DNSIYC, to undertake a range of consumption and exposure assessments.
Throughout the duration of the contract, reliable technical support and training for FSA staff will also be required.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · IT software development services · IT software package
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£125,000
- Condition of participation
Tenderers must demonstrate their technical ability to deliver the services of the contract, tenderers must complete the PSQ including their financial standing and a technical and commercial proposal.
Tenders for FSA funded projects must be submitted through the health-family single e-Commercial System (Atamis), using the following link: health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Technical Criteria: 80%
- Commercial Criterion: 20%
Published award criteria (2)
- Technical Criteria: See the Specification and Tender Documents for full details. The technical evaluation criteria are divided into a number of sections and sub-criteria which assess the bidder's technical capability, methodology, experience, resources, and delivery approach
- Commercial Criterion: See the Specification and Tender Documents for full details. The Commercial evaluation criteria are divided into sub-sections and will assess the bidder's pricing proposal and overall value for money in accordance with the published evaluation methodology.
- Condition of participation
Tenderers must demonstrate their technical ability to deliver the services of the contract, tenderers must complete the PSQ including their financial standing and a technical and commercial proposal.
Tenders for FSA funded projects must be submitted through the health-family single e-Commercial System (Atamis), using the following link: health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗
- Price carries 20 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 2 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £83,486 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How The Food Standards Agency buys Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221), and who usually turns up
The Food Standards Agency’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: Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221) →
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Yorkshire and the Humber (authority’s region).
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.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 31 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid52% / 4%
2–329% / 35%
4–614% / 32%
7+5% / 29%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Awards below, close to or above the estimate, per lot. The buyer side adds below-threshold contracts with a pre-award estimate; an award inside a published range counts as close.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate54% / 46%
Within ±2%29% / 34%
Above estimate17% / 20%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 7221Published estimate£125k
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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 69 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid10%
2–332%
4–626%
7+32%
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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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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 and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder appears in live search, the Retender Radar, contract pages, organisation counts, the earlier contracts and past suppliers on a tender's competition panel, the buyer's decision figure and its award against estimate; the other analytical figures are built from Find a Tender notices.
- 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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- 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
- 10 Nov 2026, 14:59 GMT
- Last source update
- 10 Nov 2026, 14:59 GMT
- Authority reference
C489765- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-106748- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b8baFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Atamis legacy domain (health-family.force.com)- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 10 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 23 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Tenders for FSA funded projects must be submitted through the health-family single e-Commercial System (Atamis), using the following link: health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗
Timeline
10 Nov 2026 → 4 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Tender notice publishedjust passed10 Nov 2026, 14:59 GMT
- Today10 Nov 2026
- Clarification questions byin 12 days23 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 29 days10 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 54 days4 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published10 Nov 2026, 14:59 GMTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender