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Northern Ireland Pet Travel Services

DEFRA Commercial

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Key details

Contracting authority
Region
York
Contract value
£3,300,000ex VAT
Submissions closed
3 March 2025
Published
20 March 2025

Procurement

Contract period
4 March 2025 - 3 March 2027
2 years
Procedure type
Call-off from a framework agreement
CPV classifications
  • 79710000 Security services

What happened

DEFRA Commercial awarded this contract to G4S Secure Solutions (UK) Ltd worth £3,400,000 on 4 Mar 2025. The contract runs until 3 Mar 2027.

Description

Pet compliance checking services will consist of 100% documentary and visual checks as well as a proportion of risk-based checks (involving a microchip scan). The Pet compliance checking services are required at three Great Britain (GB) ferry ports (2 Stena ports for their Liverpool to Belfast and Loch Ryan to Belfast routes and 1 P&O port for the Cairnryan to Larne route) on behalf of the Competent Authority (CA). The checks are required to cover all sailings at these ports.

Awarded supplier

Supplier
G4S Secure Solutions (UK) Ltd
Award value
£3,400,000
Award date
4 March 2025

Contact

Address
DEFRA Group Commercial, York, YO1 7PX
Contact name
Mr Marcus Ritchie

Identifiers

Buyer reference
CF-0474600D8d000003VQwdEAG
Notice ID
067258aa-2e37-4d95-925c-627567e2f147-834962
OCID
ocds-b5fd17-dfdc5873-e166-4630-9ee8-7707a209db17

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