The Department for Food Environment and Rural Affairs has awarded a contract for the provision of eDNA Kits and analysis for District Level Licensing Monitoring worth an estimated £342,000.

The eDNA kit and analysis packages will be used for monitoring ponds created and restored under Natural England’s District Level Licensing Schemes.

Abingdon-based company Orchid Cellmark Ltd has won the contract, one of six companies in the bidding for the work.