Procurement Summary
Country: Ireland
Summary: A Service for the Handling, Processing and Verification of Certain Pig Movement Notifications
Deadline: 11 Nov 2025
Posting Date: 08 Oct 2025
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 127706395
Document Ref. No.: 658195-2025
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: EUR 150000
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Any person intending to keep pigs must, prior to taking possession of any pigs, submit an application for a pig herd number to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM). Successful applicants are assigned a unique herd number which is registered on the Department-s systems and activated to keep pigs. Approximately 1.5 million pigs are kept in Ireland on some 1, 250 registered holdings. Of those holdings, about 270 would be regarded as commercial units. Pig keepers are required by law to notify the Department (via an outsourced service provider) of all movements of pigs both onto and off their holdings. This currently involves a dual notification process where the keeper of the herd from which the pigs are moving must notify the intention to move a batch of pigs and the receiving keeper must confirm receipt of the consignment. The movement is only recorded when corresponding notifications are received from both parties involved in the move - i.e. the movement has been reconciled. There is one exception to this requirement - data in relation to pigs moving to a DAFM-approved pig slaughter plant are recorded directly onto the DAFM system at the slaughter plant. Such movements are deemed to be reconciled and do not require separate keeper notification of the intent to move pigs to such locations. Accordingly, such movements are excluded from this tender process. In the region of 8, 200 reconciled pig movements are recorded on an annual basis to and from premises oth...
Document Type: Contract Notice
Contract Type: services
Estimated Value: 150000 - EUR
Authority Type: cga
Doc Title: A service for the handling, processing and verification of certain Pig Movement Notifications
Dispatch Date: 2025-10-07
Publish Date: 2025-10-08
Submission Date: 2025-11-11
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