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PURCH1041 Provision of field and laboratory work in Peru. Tender for administrative and logistical support for the field and laboratory components of this research project in Peru. Controlling emerging zoonotic diseases requires understanding patterns of disease in reservoir hosts, the ecological factors that enable transmission between species and how pathogens evolve in new species. Knowledge gaps in each of these areas make disease control interventions difficult, sometimes leading to ineffective or counter productive policies. Bats are a key group associated with viruses like SARS and Ebola, for which our knowledge is especially poor. The advertised project, 'Managing viral emergence at the interface of bats and livestock' is a 5-year Welcome Trust/Royal Society Funded research collaboration between the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine of the University of Glasgow and the National Service of Agrarian Health of the Peruvian Ministry of Agriculture (SENASA) focusing on emerging viral infections of common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus). Specific research projects relate to the transmission dynamics, burden and control of vampire bat-transmitted rabies and the discovery and risk assessment of new viral pathogens affecting both vampire bats and livestock. Objectives of research on rabies are 1) to use genetic data to identify what geographic factors affect the spread of rabies, 2) to quantify the burden of vampire bat-transmitted rabies in livestock, 3) to collect field data on rabies transmission in wild vampire bats in Peru to develop models that can inform how vaccination or culling of bats might be improved to directed to prevent livestock and human rabies. Objectives of research on other vampire bat associated viruses are: 1) to use new genetic tools to quantify overlaps in viral diversity between vampire bats and livestock and 2) establish a controlled field system using domestic pigs to validate bats as reservoirs of shared viral infections and examine within the evolutionary dynamics of viruses in new host species. The present solicitation seeks administrative and logistical support for the field and laboratory components of this project in Peru. Tender documents available from Public Contracts Scotland. Tender returns should be submitted via Public Contracts Scotland, no paper copies will be accepted. Should paper tenders be submitted, they will be rejected. Further to this any questions or communications regarding individual tender exercises must be sent via the Public Contracts Scotland Portal. Tender queries received through any other channel will not be answered. Should users of Public Contracts Scotland have any problems with the web site they should contact website Support Desk, contact details can be found by following the ‘Contact Us' option on the left hand menu at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/default.aspx NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=301141 The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.

PURCH1041 Provision of field and laboratory work in Peru.

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