Official UK procurement notice
RFI - Appointment of a main reference laboratory
Authority: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionUK NEQAS Microbiology is seeking to appoint a main reference laboratory to provide microbial strains and perform antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) in support of its External Quality Assessment (EQA) schemes. This RFI is seeking information from laboratories that have the capability and capacity to fulfil the outlined requirements.
CPV: Research laboratory services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- 21 May 2025, 11:15 BST
- Last source update
- 21 May 2025, 16:36 BST
- Authority reference
C363261- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-023700- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-051a25Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 May 2025 → 18 Nov 2025 · 3 dates- Planning notice published21 May 2025, 11:15 BST
- Market engagement11 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
UK NEQAS Microbiology is seeking to appoint a main reference laboratory to provide microbial strains and perform antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) in support of its External Quality Assessment (EQA) schemes. This RFI is seeking information from laboratories that have the capability and capacity to fulfil the outlined requirements. The issuance of this RFI does not constitute a sourcing exercise, but responses provided will help to shape UKHSA’s sourcing strategy. UKHSA will not pay any costs incurred by respondents in the preparation of a response to this RFI. The supporting documents can be accessed via Project C363261 in the Atamis portal: atamis-1928.my.salesforce-sites.com ↗ Please refer to the documentation for full details and instructions on how to respond.
- Contract starts344 days ago18 Nov 2025
Notice history
2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 21 May 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 May 2025, 11:15 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 May 2025, 16:36 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Additional information to be provided.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- 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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender