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A service for the handling, processing and verification of certain Pig Movement Notifications

Buyer: Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine

Published
8 October 2025
Submission deadline
11 November 2025, 13:00
Estimated value
€150,000
Procedure
Open procedure
Lots
1
Documents
1
Notice number
00658195-2025
Reference
bde8c61f-750c-4782-a542-76c26e19be90
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Official source

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Description

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 mov…

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