Award

Supply of Radio Collars to APHA

  • Animal and Plant Health Agency

UK6: Contract award notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-057359

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-059898 (view related notices)

Published 17 September 2025, 2:12pm



Scope

Description

The purpose of this Contract Details Notice is to announce the intention for the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) to award a contract to Lotek UK Ltd for 'combined proximity logger, GPS and VHF transmitter' devices which will be fitted to collars. The collars will allow APHA at Woodchester Park to gather data to support hypotheses within the Bovine Tuberculosis (BtB) strategy


Contract 1. Supply of Radio Collars to APHA

Supplier

Contract value

  • £250,740 excluding VAT
  • £300,888 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Award decision date

2 September 2025

Standstill period

  • End: 26 September 2025
  • 8 working days

Earliest date the contract will be signed

30 September 2025

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 October 2025 to 31 December 2027
  • Possible extension to 31 December 2029
  • 4 years, 3 months

Description of possible extension:

Twenty-Four (24) Month extension

Main procurement category

Goods

CPV classifications

  • 32230000 - Radio transmission apparatus with reception apparatus

Contract locations

  • UKK13 - Gloucestershire

Procedure

Procedure type

Direct award


Supplier

LOTEK UK LTD

  • Companies House: 02895873
  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PQYN-6326-DWWD

The Old Courts, Worgret Road,

Wareham

BH20 4PL

United Kingdom

Region: UKK25 - Dorset

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): Yes

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

Supported employment provider: No

Public service mutual: No

Contract 1. Supply of Radio Collars to APHA


Contracting authority

Animal and Plant Health Agency

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PBHC-6261-BLLQ

Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

United Kingdom

Region: UKI32 - Westminster

Organisation type: Public authority - central government


Other organisation

These organisations are carrying out the procurement, or part of it, on behalf of the contracting authorities.

Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs

Summary of their role in this procurement: Undertaking procurement on behalf of the contracting authority

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PNBD-3289-CDGX

Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

United Kingdom

Region: UKI32 - Westminster


Contact organisation

Contact Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs for any enquiries.