Research call from The UK Food Standards Agency : Strategic Challenge 2012

The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) is inviting researchers to develop innovative proposals that would improve food safety and lead to a significant leap forward in addressing the Agency’s strategic challenges.

The focus of this call to tender, with a total spending pot of £500,000, is on scientific excellence. The Agency is looking for potentially high risk/high gain projects that use new approaches to address the Agency’s key objective of safer food for the nation.

The open call develops further the strategic challenge initiative started in 2011, and applicants are not constrained to specific research questions.

How to apply

• Applications should be submitted using our electronic procurement system. They should be received by 5pm on Thursday 13 September 2012.

• To find out more about this call for tenders, you will need to register as a supplier on the FSA’s electronic tendering system, ePPS, via http://fsa-esourcing.eurodyn.com/epps/home.do

Related links

• Call for innovative research ideas - Read the news story on the 2011 strategic challenge initiative

• Food Standards Agency's Strategy to 2015 - Read about the strategy and how it will be supported and reviewed

• Procurement- Find out more about how the Agency's procurement process works

• Strategic Challenge 2012

• UK FSA News Release

• The latest FSA's tenders may be viewed at http://fsa-esourcing.eurodyn.com/epps/home.do  (* Click on "Latest CfTs")

Contact: Alisdair Wotherspoon co-ordinates FSA's research activities and may be reached at 020 7276 8786; email: Alisdair.Wotherspoon@FoodStandards.GSI.gov.UK