Project 30072 - Farmer-delivered Badger Vaccination Pilot

This Pilot is required to deliver a large scale, farmer-delivered badger vaccination service over a five (5) year period. The appointed Contractor will act as a managed service provider and establish sub-contracting arrangements with farmers to deliver vaccination services on a 250 km sq contiguous area of East Sussex.

This Pilot aims to deliver a form of badger control in East Sussex, an area that is unlikely to take part in a future cull and provide information to support vaccination as a badger control tool.

Key objectives are as follows:

• Service provision via a bespoke vaccination delivery model that ensures farmers are at the forefront of vaccination services.
• To learn from and refine the delivery model to ensure farmer-delivered vaccination Services (vaccination and cage-trapping for the prevention of TB) are a success.
• Work alongside key stakeholders over the five (5) year period to demonstrate that badger vaccination can be delivered at scale.
• Driving efficiencies over the five (5) year period to make farmer-led badger vaccination more cost effective.

The purpose of this notice is to alert the market to a possible opportunity and invite interested parties to join a supplier engagement event at 2:00 pm on Wednesday 23rd September 2020. This will provide an opportunity for potential suppliers to learn more about the project. If you are interested in joining the Webex, please register your interest by emailing melanie.swain@defra.gov.uk

Additional information:

The purpose of this Notice is to notify the market of a possible opportunity and to invite interested parties to join a supplier engagement event at 2:00 pm on Wednesday 23rd September 2020. This will provide an opportunity for potential suppliers to learn more about the project. If you are interested in joining the Webex, please register your interest by emailing melanie.swain@defra.gov.uk

The intention is to publish Tender documents in October 2020.