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| Source: | Find a Tender Service (FTS) |
| Notice Type: | Award notice |
| Buyer: | ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH AGENCY |
| Main Category: | Services |
| Procurement Method: | Direct award |
| Method Rationale: | Thermo Electron Ltd are the sole owners and licensor of SampleManager software, and there are no alternatives available to Animal and Plant Health Agency without rewriting all forecasting models. It is the view of the Animal and Plant Health Agency that this contract is justifiable under Paragraph 5 in Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023 to award the contract for the supply and support of the SampleManager software because, ThermoFisher Scientific own the intellectual property for the software, and there are no reasonable alternative, nor can another organisation supply and support the software. Additionally, it is the view of the Animal and Plant Health Agency that this contract is also justifiable under Paragraph 6 in Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023 to award the contract for the supply and support of the SampleManager software because, at this time, no alternative solution is available and any decision to deviate from this software would require a redevelopment of all Animal and Plant Health Agency models, therefore competition is absent for technical reasons. |
| Tender Status: | Closed |
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LAP COM-100 APHA LIMS
LAP COM-100 APHA LIMS
Laboratory Information System Upgrade
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| Award status: | Active |
The SampleManager is the software for the Laboratory Information Management Service system is used extensively for recording animal submissions, samples and testing, facilitates reporting of disease test results and underpins statutory disease testing for notifiable diseases, reportable diseases and other zoonotic diseases (human impacting diseases with primary biological reservoir in animals). This system is critical to APHA’s management of animal disease outbreaks and assuring and facilitating international trade by demonstrating sufficient surveillance for disease-free status. The purpose of this Transparency Notice is to announce APHA’s intention to enter into a contract to upgrade the SampleManager current version (12.1) which is now out of support to 21.3 version for a year with 12 months extend options.
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| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Application Deadline: | — |
| Procurement ID (OCID): | ocds-h6vhtk-058aed |
| Notice Reference: | 060848-2025 |