Awarded contract

Provision of Passive Bat Surveillance Services (2025 - 2028)

Details

Buyer: Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)
Supplier(s): The Bat Conservation Trust
Value: £45,000
Duration: 3 years
Topic: Animal husbandry services
Published: 23 June 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The award of a contract to provide advice to the public for dealing with bats and bat contact incidents, ensuring the public deals safely with bats, taking into account the risk of rabies. Please note: the contract was signed on 18th June 2025 not 31st March 2025 as reported on the notice. ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published23 June 2025
Current notice
Completed: Award date23 June 2025
Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2028in 17 months

About the buyer

Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) is an executive agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). APHA also works on behalf of the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government. Goods, services and works are acquired by competition, with single-tender contracts limited to exceptional cases. Larger purchases need procurement strategy approval from Defra's sponsor team once APHA passes its delegated authority limit.

Over the past 5 years, most of APHA's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, architectural and engineering services and research and development.

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@animal-and-plant-health-agency-apha.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@animal-and-plant-health-agency-apha.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@animal-and-plant-health-agency-apha.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@animal-and-plant-health-agency-apha.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@animal-and-plant-health-agency-apha.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@animal-and-plant-health-agency-apha.gov