# Project\_29701 - Improved tools for the diagnosis of foot-and-mouth disease

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: Defra Network eTendering Portal
- Contract winner: [The Pirbright Institute](/contract-winners/pirbright-institute/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £2,602,775
- Tender value: £2,602,775
- Award date: 14 December 2020
- Published: 18 March 2021
- Contract start: 1 April 2020
- Contract end: 31 March 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: d7b3f243-90c9-418b-b013-cd1cf09a1d03-421518
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-e27a7b9c-6367-43a9-8b8d-bcf9a44c3dcf

## Description

The project will ensure that the routine diagnostic systems used within the FMD National Reference Laboratory at Pirbright \(and surge capacity at APHA-Weybridge\) have resilience to respond rapidly to the threats of FMD incursion into the UK\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/d7b3f243-90c9-418b-b013-cd1cf09a1d03-421518)