NIFAIS Go Live Preparations

You will be aware that NIFAIS, the Departments new IT system replacing APHIS, is planned to go live for cattle markets and exports on 4^th September 2023. To facilitate data migration there will be a reduction in APHIS services over Saturday 2^nd and Sunday 3^rd September 2023.

We are currently planning to allow markets and tag suppliers access to APHIS up until 2pm on Saturday 2^nd September. After this APHIS will be unavailable for cattle transactions until Sunday 3^rd September when NIFAIS is planned to be launched. Cattle market moves from markets to herds, which occurred on Saturday, can be uploaded to NIFAIS once DAERA give the go-ahead.

APHIS will be unavailable for all species from 2.00 pm on Saturday 2^nd September. We hope to have APHIS back operating, for sheep markets and exports, later on Saturday 2^nd September and further communications will be issued nearer the time. There is likely to be a minimum 4 hours of downtime for APHIS from 2-6 pm and potentially longer.

For now all markets and exporters should be aware of the possibility of significant disruption over this weekend. We appreciate your co-operation and any queries can be returned to this mailbox, or further information can be sought on the DAERA NIFAIS Landing Page.