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# Soil Sample Metabarcoding for Natural England's Long Term Monitoring Network 2025 - 2026

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/soil-sample-metabarcoding-for-natural-england-s-long-term-monitoring-network-2025-2026-ocds-h6vhtk-05ebd8). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NATURAL ENGLAND (Defra Network eTendering Portal): "Soil Sample Metabarcoding for Natural England's Long Term Monitoring Network 2025 - 2026". Published status: complete. Published Value: £49,500. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 15 Dec 2025, 17:00 GMT. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [NATURAL ENGLAND (Defra Network eTendering Portal)](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/natural-england-defra-network-etendering-portal-gov-pb202)
- **Published Value:** £49,500 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 15 December 2025 at 17:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Below threshold - open competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Research laboratory services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £34,960 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 7 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/soil-sample-metabarcoding-for-natural-england-s-long-term-monitoring-network-2025-2026-ocds-h6vhtk-05ebd8#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05ebd8`

## 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/soil-sample-metabarcoding-for-natural-england-s-long-term-monitoring-network-2025-2026-ocds-h6vhtk-05ebd8#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission method:** To apply for this opportunity you must submit your quotation meeting the requirements detailed in the Request for Quotation (RFQ) attached.
Your response must be sent to matthew.j.shepherd@naturalengland.org.uk and victoria.sloan@naturalengland.org.uk by 5 pm on 15th December 2025.
If you have any clarification questions linked to this opportunity or the procurement process please submit these via email to the above email addresses. Please note that, unless commercially sensitive, both the question and the response will be circulated to all tenderers.

## Description
This project is to analyse soil samples collected from a range of sites and time points by Natural England's Long Term Monitoring Network using metabarcoding. The project will deliver raw and taxonomically assigned data on bacteria and fungi within the samples, along with meta-data and reporting sufficient to ensure analyses are fully repeatable. As the soil samples originate from a longer term monitoring programme this project should aim to produce data comparable with previous metabarcoding analyses, as detailed in the specification.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 73111000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £49,500

- **Contract Period:** 05/01/2026 to 25/03/2026

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

  - Supplier(s): **University of Sheffield**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-19146`
  - Value: £34,960 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £34,960
  - Signed Date: 09/01/2026

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F078446-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-01-23T12:00:33.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T02:44:31.727Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-05ebd8