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Environmental Surveillance: OSMA and OSD

Food Standards Agency · Central government

In brief

Food Standards Agency awarded research work to Fera Science Ltd on 17 August 2026.

The buyer says it is suitable for small and medium-sized businesses.

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What the notice says

The FSA has awarded a contract for delivery of a research and evidence project to strengthen the FSA’s environmental surveillance capability for foodborne disease (FBD) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The project will generate robust, transferable evidence to support a One Health approach to environmental surveillance, demonstrating the feasibility, operational value and cost effectiveness of combining a One Sample Many Analyses (OSMA) approach with targeted On Site Diagnostic (OSD) technologies, using environmental samples that are already collected across government. The requirement is to deliver a structured, phased programme of work that enables the FSA to determine where and how OSMA and OSD approaches provide added value relative to existing laboratory based, single organisation surveillance models, and where they do not. The emphasis is on evidence generation, evaluation and decision support, rather than deployment at scale.

Who won

WinnerValueDates
Fera Science Ltd£1,575,934
17 August 2026 to 31 March 2029
Fera Science Ltd£1,575,934
Awarded 8 July 2026

Values as the award notice gives them, excluding VAT where stated.

Timeline

  1. Transparency notice · UK5, notice 063969-2026
  2. Contract award notice · UK6, notice 063995-2026
  3. Contract details notice · UK7, notice 083525-2026

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From notice 063969-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 8 July 2026, last updated 3 September 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.