UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

The contract will cover the supply of temporary Veterinary Officer (VO) services. The primary role of the VO is to undertake a wide range of inspection, disease surveillance and eradication tasks to maintain high levels of animal welfare and public health standards. VO duties are performed across Northern Ireland and span various different work areas including DAERA Direct Offices, farms and livestock markets etc. This role requires strong leadership, decision-making and collaboration ensuring that Northern Ireland’s agricultural sector remains resilient, compliant and competitive.

Within DAERA the Veterinary Service Animal Health Group has an Identification, Registration and Movement (IRM) Branch that monitors compliance with the legislative requirements for animal identification and movement recording. The Cattle Identification (Notification of Births, Deaths and Movements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 require herd Keepers to notify the movement of animals on to and off their farms. To facilitate this DAERA provides movement notification documentation for the use of the Keepers concerned. IRM Branch determines the need for replacement stocks by monitoring the usage of notification documents and ordering sufficient stocks to support the continued operation of that system. Please see CFT documents for full details of the requirements.

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has a requirement for a Supplier to provide a detector dog and handler, on a full-time basis to assist Veterinary Service, a specific business area within DAERA, in the targeting of products of animal and plant origin at Northern Ireland (NI) airports and ports and parcel handling locations.

Within DAERA the Veterinary Service Animal Health Group has an Identification, Registration and Movement (IRM) Branch that monitors compliance with the legislative requirements for animal identification and movement recording. The Cattle Identification (Notification of Births, Deaths and Movements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 require herd Keepers to notify the movement of animals on to and off their farms. To facilitate this DAERA provides movement notification documentation for the use of the Keepers concerned. IRM Branch determines the need for replacement stocks by monitoring the usage of notification documents and ordering sufficient stocks to support the continued operation of that system. Please see CFT documents for full details of the requirements.

Within DAERA the Veterinary Service Animal Health Group has an Identification,Registration and Movement (IRM) Branch that monitors compliance with the legislative requirements for animal identification and movement recording. The Cattle Identification (Notification of Births, Deaths and Movements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 require herd Keepers to notify the movement of animals on to and off their farms. To facilitate this DAERA provides movement notification documentation for the use of the Keepers concerned. IRM Branch determines the need for replacement stocks by monitoring the usage of notification documents and ordering sufficient stocks to support the continued operation of that system. Please see CFT documents for full details of the requirements.

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), through the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI), a unit within DAERA, has a statutory responsibility for private water supplies under the Water and Sewerage Services Order (Northern Ireland) 2006. This is implemented through The Private Water Supplies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 which requires a sampling and analysis programme to be put in place and maintained for all private water supplies registered under these regulations (Regulations 9 -12). Therefore DWI requires a Supplier to undertake the collection, transportation, analysis and reporting of results for samples of drinking water taken by local council officers from private water supplies across Northern Ireland under The Private Water Supplies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017.

Within DAERA the Veterinary Service Animal Health Group has an Identification,Registration and Movement (IRM) Branch that monitors compliance with the legislative requirements for animal identification and movement recording. The Cattle Identification (Notification of Births, Deaths and Movements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 require herd Keepers to notify the movement of animals on to and off their farms. To facilitate this DAERA provides movement notification documentation for the use of the Keepers concerned. IRM Branch determines the need for replacement stocks by monitoring the usage of notification documents and ordering sufficient stocks to support the continued operation of that system. Please see CFT documents for full details of the requirements.

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) (Buyer) has a requirement for the provision of Meat Inspection services to be performed by Meat Inspectors (MI)/Official Auxiliaries (OAs). The primary role of the Meat Inspector is to assist the Official Veterinarian (OV) in the delivery of Official Controls and other DAERA duties to ensure compliance with the food hygiene legislation governing the production and further handling of meat for human consumption. Suppliers should refer to the Specification Schedule for full detail on the deliverables of this contract.

THE SUPPLY OF SPECIALIST GAS ENGINEERING SERVICES TO INFECTED AND HIGH-RISK TRACING SITES (NOTIFIABLE AVIAN EPIZOOTIC DISEASE) IN NORTHERN IRELAND

THE SUPPLY OF SPECIALIST GAS ENGINEERING SERVICES TO INFECTED AND HIGH-RISK TRACING SITES (NOTIFIABLE AVIAN EPIZOOTIC DISEASE) IN NORTHERN IRELAND

The equipment, and associated installation, training and servicing, is required to improve monitoring of cyanobacteria (blue green algae) in bathing waters and other recreational sites.

The equipment is required to improve monitoring of cyanobacteria (blue green algae) in bathing waters and other recreational sites.

The contract will cover the supply of temporary Veterinary Officer (VO) services. The primary role of the VO is to undertake a wide range of inspection, disease surveillance and eradication tasks to maintain high levels of animal welfare and public health standards. VO duties are performed across Northern Ireland and span various different work areas including DAERA Direct Offices, farms and livestock markets etc. This role requires strong leadership, decision-making and collaboration ensuring that Northern Ireland’s agricultural sector remains resilient, compliant and competitive.

The equipment, and associated installation, training and servicing, is required to improve monitoring of cyanobacteria (blue green algae) in bathing waters and other recreational sites.

The contract will cover the supply of temporary Veterinary Officer (VO) services.

The contract will cover the supply of temporary Veterinary Officer (VO) services.

The contract will cover the supply of temporary Veterinary Officer (VO) services.

DAERA is seeking to establish a ranked contract for the supply and delivery of Brucellosis testing kits for blood sampling of cattle in Northern Ireland. Brucellosis is a significant zoonotic disease in Northern Ireland and has been successfully eradicated from the national cattle herd with Official Brucellosis Freedom status attained from the EU in 2015. Blood sampling of high risk animals is a statutory requirement in addition to approved surveillance sampling of the national herd to prove continued disease freedom. Please see CFT documents for additional information.

DAERA Inland Fisheries, part of the Environment, Marine and Fisheries Group, operates a fleet of vessels, trailers and outboard engines across Northern Ireland to support statutory duties under the Fisheries Act (NI) 1966, including protecting, conserving, developing and promoting salmon and inland fisheries. These vessels must remain safe, fully operational and legally compliant with relevant Health and Safety legislation and Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) codes of practice (MGN 280, Workboat Code Edition 3, MGN 469), and are essential to the delivery of operational enforcement, monitoring and management activities. DAERA Inland Fisheries are seeking to appoint a Supplier to deliver this service.