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title: "Laboratory Quality Testing for AHDB's Recommended List Project"
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# Laboratory Quality Testing for AHDB's Recommended List Project

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/laboratory-quality-testing-for-ahdb-s-recommended-list-project-ocds-h6vhtk-030fd5). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** AHDB: "Laboratory Quality Testing for AHDB's Recommended List Project". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [AHDB](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/ahdb-gov-ot204)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products, Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £597,034 (exc. VAT, 2 contracts)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-030fd5`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/laboratory-quality-testing-for-ahdb-s-recommended-list-project-ocds-h6vhtk-030fd5#tl-md)

## Description
The information provided by the RLs enables levy payers to select variety’s that are optimal for their cropping system and meet the requirements of their local market. Key to this is the assessment of varietal quality characterists. 
Grain samples are taken at harvest from trial plots by the RL trials operators and sent to the relevant quality testing laboratory to carry out various laboratory quality tests and assessments on them. It is this part of the process for which the tenderers are applying: to manage receipt of samples, carry out quality test procedures as described in this ITT and produce results for AHDB.
The laboratory quality tests have been divided into four lots for this tender according to crop and types of tests. Tenderers are invited to apply for single or multiple lots as per the list below : 
Lot 1	Wheat Milling & Baking
Lot 2	Quality testing Cereals (Excluding Oats) & Oil content of Oilseed Rape and Linseed
Lot 3	Quality testing Oats
Lot 4	Barley MicroMalting

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1234: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1234`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 03000000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Grain samples are taken at harvest from trial plots by the RL trials operators and sent to the relevant quality testing laboratory to carry out various laboratory quality tests and assessments on them. It is this part of the process for which contrac...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (2)
- **Award:** 002364-2022-2020-454-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **NIAB**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-169294`
  - Value: £519,442 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** 002364-2022-2020-454-2 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Campden BRI (Chipping Campden) Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-42183`
  - Value: £77,592 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (2)
- **Contract:** 002364-2022-2020-454-2 (active)
  - Signed Value: £77,592
  - Signed Date: 15/12/2021

- **Contract:** 002364-2022-2020-454-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £519,442
  - Signed Date: 09/11/2021

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F002364-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-01-26T22:45:08.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T12:47:50.957Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-030fd5