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APHA Rental of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Testing Equipment

ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH AGENCY

Buyer Contact Info

Buyer Name: ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH AGENCY

Buyer Address: Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street, London, UKI32, SW1P 4DF, United Kingdom

Contact Name: Mandy Worsnop

Contact Email: procurement@defra.gov.uk

Buyer Name: DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

Status
complete
Procedure
direct
Value
108000.0 GBP
Published
14 Aug 2025, 09:15
Deadline
n/a
Contract Start
14 Aug 2025, 23:00
Contract End
31 Jul 2026, 22:59
Category
n/a
CPV
38000000 - Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
Region
n/a
Awarded To
Giles Scientific Inc.
Official Source
Open Find a Tender

Description

APHA is the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) reference laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) testing and requires the appropriate technology to provide accurate and timely veterinary AMR surveillance and clinical requirements. AMR testing can be accomplished by Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC), disk diffusion and molecular analysis. APHAs current requirement is for the disc diffusion method. However, no one method can determine accurately antimicrobial resistance completely therefore flexibility is required. These are very specialist machines that require complete compatibility with APHAs Laboratory Information Management System (LIMs). They must also be easily configurable to integrate into the dataflow and align to existing methods specific to veterinary surveillance. Giles Scientific are the only manufacturer of the Biomic3 system and there are currently no other suitable alternative readers available on the market. Please note that this contract started on the 01 August 2025 not the 15 August 2025 as advertised.

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Lots

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Contracts

Contract Title: APHA Rental of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Testing Equipment

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