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

Natural England · Central government

In brief

Natural England awarded research work to University of Sheffield on 9 January 2026.

The notice gives a value of £49,500 excluding VAT.

The contract runs for 3 months, starting 5 January 2026.

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

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What the notice says

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.

Who won

WinnerValueDates
University of Sheffield£34,960
12 January 2026 to 25 March 2026

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

Timeline

  1. Tender notice · UK4, notice 078446-2025
  2. Contract details notice · UK7, notice 006139-2026

Last time this was bought

Basic analysis of Soil Samples for Natural England's Long Term Monitoring Network 2025

Awarded
29 November 2025
Value
Not stated, or split across lots
Contract ends
16 March 2026

Matched on Natural England, the type of work and the title; it may be a related contract rather than the same one. Check the notice to be sure.

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From notice 078446-2025 on Find a Tender, first published 1 December 2025, last updated 23 January 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.