When does Food Standards Agency re-tender its contracts?

Food Standards Agency has 42 contracts with a published end date. 5 are inside the re-tender window now, and 19 more reach it within the next twelve months. The window is estimated from each contract's end date minus a lead time scaled to its value, because a larger contract is usually prepared a year or more ahead. It is an estimate, not an announcement: the buyer can extend, re-scope or cancel.

Where does this information come from?

Every contract here comes from notices Food Standards Agency published on the UK government's Find a Tender service, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. End dates, values and suppliers are as the buyer published them.

Buyers / Public authority - central government

Food Standards Agency: 42 contracts expiring, £7.7m tracked

Every Food Standards Agency contract with a published end date, from the buyer's own award notices, and 13 tenders it has published. Re-tender windows are computed estimates.

Contracts expiring

with a published end date

Combined value

£7.7m

net published values

Window open now

re-tender due, nothing published

Next to expire

30 Nov 2026

Top sector: Research and development

Expiring next

Contract	Value	Ends	Re-tender opens	Incumbent	Phase
Work Package 3: Provision of Allergen Information Evaluation: Stakeholder follow up research & validation	£40k	30 Nov 2026	Subscribers	Subscribers	Window open
Provision of Allergen Information Evaluation: Consumer follow up survey	£55k	31 Dec 2026	Subscribers	Subscribers	Window open
Literature Review: Allergenicity of cell cultivated products	£40k	15 Jan 2027	Subscribers	Subscribers	Window open
Work Package 5- Developing the evidence base for the Future of Food Regulation Programme's rationale for intervention	£50k	15 Jan 2027	Subscribers	Subscribers	Window open
Food Standards training for England Local Authority Officers	£27k	31 Jan 2027	Subscribers	Subscribers	Window open
Potential migration levels of mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOAH and MOSH) from food contact materials and background environmental contamination	£100k	26 Feb 2027	Subscribers	Subscribers	Opening soon
Biosurveillance tools and approaches	£100k	31 Mar 2027	Subscribers	Subscribers	Opening soon
Food supplements Market insight	£87k	31 Mar 2027	Subscribers	Subscribers	Opening soon
Work Package 4 Communicating changes to precautionary allergen labelling (PAL), and potential impact of changes, to consumers	£93k	31 Mar 2027	Subscribers	Subscribers	Opening soon
Literature review: Cyanobacterial toxins in fish and other foods arising from cyanobacterial blooms: occurrence and toxicity through food and feed	£140k	31 Mar 2027	Subscribers	Subscribers	Opening soon

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The radar filtered to Food Standards Agency lists all 42, with the incumbent on each and the month it is likely to go back out, and can email you at 8am whenever one is new or its re-tender window opens. The link below is shareable.

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What Food Standards Agency buys

Contracts by sector, from the CPV codes on each notice.

Research and development36 Business services, legal, HR and marketing14 Education and training3 Architecture, engineering and surveying3 IT services and software development2 Print and publishing1 Building materials1 Health and social care1 Food and catering supplies1

Open for bids now

Extending the Cost of Food Crime Analysis: Additional Case Studies and Assessing the Impact of NFCU Activity£100k5 days left
Effect of probiotics on Campylobacter colonisation within the broiler gut£500k23 days left

Who holds contracts here

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Common questions

When does Food Standards Agency re-tender its contracts?: Food Standards Agency has 42 contracts with a published end date. 5 are inside the re-tender window now, and 19 more reach it within the next twelve months. The window is estimated from each contract's end date minus a lead time scaled to its value, because a larger contract is usually prepared a year or more ahead. It is an estimate, not an announcement: the buyer can extend, re-scope or cancel.
What does Food Standards Agency buy?: By the CPV codes on its contracts, the largest groups are research and development (36), business services, legal, hr and marketing (14), education and training (3). A contract can carry codes from more than one group.
Where does this information come from?: Every contract here comes from notices Food Standards Agency published on the UK government's Find a Tender service, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. End dates, values and suppliers are as the buyer published them.

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