Certification Services Aquacultue & Wild Seafood

Tender description

This tender seeks the services of an ISO/IEC 17065 accredited certification body, for one year from July 2014, to maintain the accreditation of the BIM aquaculture and Wild Seafood standards, to provide certification services and 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 by an equivalent European National accreditation body, which is a signatory to the European co-operation for 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.