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RBGKEW1513 Cacao TEA and SIRA

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Tenderline Synopsis: Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: "RBGKEW1513 Cacao TEA and SIRA". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityBoard of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens KewScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
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Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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Competition Density
1Bids / Report
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Coverage: 49 active published awards; 6 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Price reduction compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityBoard of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Procedure methodNot published
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Statuscomplete
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Published28 May 2026, 07:33 BST
Last source update28 May 2026, 07:33 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
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Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06a6ed
What is being bought
Direct Award Trace element analysis (TEA) of approximately 100 cacao seed subsamples using Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) and Stable Isotope Analysis (SIRA) of approximately 60 cacao samples (both fatted & defatted fractions) using isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IR-MS). These samples were donated to Kew from various countries in South America (Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil) during the previous Defra-funded projects with World Forest ID. All samples will be sent to the supplier in January 2026 and would have to analysed and data returned by end of March 2026 following identical pipelines and MSAs/MTAs as a logical follow-on to those analysed by Fera during the previous WFID projects to maintain protection of sample and data chain of custody and continuity of data quality for standardised results and interpretation.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    28 May 2026, 07:33 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    28 May 2026, 07:33 BST
  3. Buyer information updated
    28 May 2026, 07:33 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
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  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    complete
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    28 May 2026, 07:33 BST
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 1 Jan 2026, 00:00 GMT · £58,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Fera Science Ltd
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£58,000 · signed 1 Jan 2026, 00:00 GMT · active
Contract period: 1 Jan 2026, 00:00 GMT — 31 Mar 2026, 23:59 BST
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Contracting authority GB-CHC-803428
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  • Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
    buyer

    GB-CHC: 803428 · GB-PPON: PGTT-3583-QXLN
    THE HERBARIUM, KEW GREEN, UKI75, TW9 3AE, GB
    procurement@kew.org

  • FERA SCIENCE LIMITED
    supplier

    GB-COH: 09413107
    York BioTech Campus, Sand Hutton,, York, UKE22, YO41 1LZ, GB
    Jeremy.Frearson@fera.co.uk
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