Quality Certification Services (Aquaculture & Wild Seafood)

Tender description

This tender seeks the services of an ISO65 accredited certification body, for one year from 01 June 2013, to maintain the accreditation of the BIM aquaculture and Wild Seafood standards, to provide certification services and to progress development of certification services to meet market needs. The successful tenderer will also be responsible, in association with Technical Advisory Committees (Aquaculture) and Oversight Committees (Wild Seafood) for the development of the standards in accordance with industry best practice and European and National Legislation. The certification body engaged to provide these services, must be recognised and accredited by INAB or an equivalent European National accreditation body which is a signatory to the European Accreditation (EA) Multilateral Agreement. At the time of submission, the tenderer must have all BIM’s accredited wild seafood and aquaculture standards within the official scope of their certification activity, as recognised by their National accreditation body. A detailed specification of requirements is set out in Section 2 of this tender document. ***This Contract has been awarded to Global Trust Certification***