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title: "Lough Neagh Sampling Plan - 2025-2026 (WFSR)"
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# Lough Neagh Sampling Plan - 2025-2026 (WFSR)

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/lough-neagh-sampling-plan-2025-2026-wfsr-ocds-h6vhtk-0582d2). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** The Food Standards Agency: "Lough Neagh Sampling Plan - 2025-2026 (WFSR)". Published status: complete. Contract 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:** [The Food Standards Agency](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/the-food-standards-agency-gov-d102)
- **Contract Value (direct award):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Below threshold - without competition
- **Main Category:** Not published
- **Classifications (CPV):** None published
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/lough-neagh-sampling-plan-2025-2026-wfsr-ocds-h6vhtk-0582d2#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0582d2`

## Before you bid
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- **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.
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- **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/lough-neagh-sampling-plan-2025-2026-wfsr-ocds-h6vhtk-0582d2#tl-md)

## Description
The contract is for the supply of Fish Testing and Reporting services to the Food Standards Agency. The successful supplier is Wageningen Food Safety Research. 
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is currently undertaking a critical fish sampling and testing programme focused on cyanotoxins in fish harvested from Lough Neagh. This follows findings from the 2024/25 programme, which identified the presence of microcystins in fish flesh and anatoxins in viscera, both of which pose risks to human and animal health.
Testing conducted by Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR) for:
• Microcystins/Nodularin
• Anatoxins/Cylindrospermopsins
• Saxitoxins
Please Note : The date recorded as the signed date in this UK 7 notice is incorrect. The correct signed date is 08/08/2025

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 71900000

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Wageningen Food Safety Research**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-157196`
  - Value: €169,414 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Lough Neagh Sampling Plan - 2025-2026 (WFSR) (active)
  - Signed Value: €169,414
  - Signed Date: 29/06/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F046669-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-08-06T15:26:31.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T16:24:51.642Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0582d2