Tender: Anthropology, DNA and Genealogy Identification Services for Historic British Military Remains – MOD JCCC

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The Ministry of Defence (MOD) Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC) Commemorative casework team is seeking a supplier to provide anthropology, DNA profiling and genealogy services to help establish the identity of historic human remains recovered from battlefields and aircraft crash sites involving British service personnel and to arrange a fitting burial. The contractor must be compliant with the Forensic Science Society or other appropriate industry standards including ISO/IEC 17025:2017 and IS09001:2000 and be able to obtain DNA profiles from human remains (typically teeth or long bones) and from volunteer comparison samples. Required services include Y‑chromosome profiling (paternal lineage) within 1 month of receiving a sample and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA, maternal lineage) within 2 months, producing reports within the specified timeframes, and the ability to process an estimated 10–100 comparison tests per year. The contractor must be able to travel to any global location deemed safe by the FCDO to undertake basic or full anthropological, osteological and genetic analysis within 2 months of request, sort co‑mingled remains into individuals where possible, and accept call‑off cases with variable volumes (15 cases in the last 12 months is given as a guide) and no guaranteed business under any resulting framework.