Public sector buyer

Cefas

Has run 591 procurements, awarding £58.6m in reported contract value.

591
Procurements
£58.6m
Award value
12
Top suppliers
20
Frameworks

Cefas is a UK public-sector contracting authority. Across 591 recorded procurements worth £58.6m in awards, the records below show its recent tenders and awards, the suppliers it buys from most, and the frameworks it uses.

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Region
Procurements
591
Total award value
£58,634,642
Publishing sources
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Recent procurements

The latest tenders and awards from this buyer.

ProcurementStageUpdatedValue
CEFAS24-169 Contract for enterprise resource planning system support servicesAward20 Mar 2026£61.3k
CEFAS24-156 Contract for provision of temperature probes and data loggersAward13 Mar 2026£56.1k
CEFAS23-09 Contract for Marine Benthic Macroinvertebrate Sample Processing: Bridgwater BayAward10 Feb 2026£172.9k
CEFAS24-112 Contract for services for outline water quality monitoring in the Taw and Torridge catchment in North DevonAward21 Nov 2025£126k
CEFAS22-58 Contract renewal for global risk management servicesAward24 Jul 2025£231.2k
CEFAS24-62 Contract for provision of services to deliver Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) trainingAward9 Jun 2025£69k
CEFAS23-76 Contract for extended Warranty on LCMSMS laboratory systemAward9 Jun 2025£143.5k
CEFAS24-85 Contract for Micro Focus Content Manager LicencesAward29 Apr 2025£123.9k
CEFAS25-02 Applications for the Appointment of experts to the Sustainable Blue Economies (SBE) Technical Assistance Platform Development Advisory Panel (DAP)Tender13 Mar 2025
CEFAS24-111 Contract for marine litter image annotation services on Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP)Award10 Mar 2025£47.9k
CEFAS24-149 Delivery of Climate change education with British Council in Sri Lanka under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP)Award10 Mar 2025£40k
CEFAS25-03 Contract for provision of services for scientific workshop and event facilitation and associated services, in the UK and overseas.Tender21 Feb 2025
CEFAS24-123 Contract to conduct Education Awareness Programme in Madagascar for under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP)Award10 Feb 2025£100k
CEFAS25-04 Contract for provision of foundational regional analyses to inform Sustainable Blue Economies (SBE) delivery in SIDS and associated services under the CLEAN Helpdesk remit. Awarded in association with the FCDO CLEAN HelpdeskAward6 Feb 2025£30.1k
CEFAS24-143 Contract for the provision to provide intertidal rock platform monitoring surveys at Hinkley Point.Award6 Feb 2025£300k
CEFAS24-169 Contract for enterprise resource planning system support servicesAward18 Dec 2024£70.6k
CEFAS24-104 Contract for monitoring of recreational sea angling in England and WalesAward17 Dec 2024£445.5k
CEFAS23-117 Contract for acoustic consumables and partsAward4 Nov 2024£323.4k
CEFAS24-157 Contract for services to process sargassum sample to test for organics and inorganicsAward4 Nov 2024£25.1k
CEFAS24-70 Contract for the analysis of seabed imagery (still images and video)Award4 Nov 2024£59.6k
CEFAS24-155 Contract for tagging & parallel sequencing library prep from marine environmental samplesAward1 Nov 2024£30k
CEFAS24-154 Contract for support for onboard fish measurement box during vessel surveyAward1 Nov 2024£16.2k
CEFAS24-153 Contract for venue hire and associated services for Maritime IWT Conference in Singapore.Award1 Nov 2024£55k
CEFAS24-77 ITT for services to establish & coordinate an Aquaculture Network to deliver best practise, knowledge sharing & capacity building in Bangladesh, under Ocean Country Partnership Programme.Award9 Oct 2024£210k
CEFAS24-113 Contract for carbon analysis (including Rock-Eval) of North Sea (Farnes) and Celtic Sea sediment samples.Award23 Sept 2024£78.2k
CEFAS24-104 Invitation to Tender for services to provide a monitoring programme on recreational sea angling in England and Wales.Tender23 Sept 2024
CEFAS24-107 Contract for exercises to test Business Continuity & Disaster RecoveryAward20 Sept 2024£66k
CEFAS24-122 - Contract for Assessing susceptibility to climate change of important UK marine speciesAward17 Sept 2024£27.1k
CEFAS24-105 Contract for services under OCPP in Bangladesh including shrimp health surveillance, Greenhouse Gas Emission and microbial activity assessment, Black soldier fly farming development and marine litter analysis.Award10 Sept 2024£59.6k
CEFAS24-111 ITT to provide marine litter image annotation services for multiple countries under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP)Tender9 Sept 2024
CEFAS24-115 Contract for marine benthic macroinvertebrate analysis of Nioz cores collected around Farnes Deep 2024Award2 Sept 2024£19k
CEFAS24-106 Contract for delivery of a short course on Marine Litter for the West Africa Region, under OCPPAward6 Aug 2024£88.6k
CEFAS23-143 Contract for provision of Postit software licensesAward2 Aug 2024£80.8k
CEFAS23-104 Contract for LIMS system upgrade and supportAward2 Aug 2024£166.6k
CEFAS23-108 Contract for mass spectrometer service supportAward2 Aug 2024£72.8k
CEFAS24-121 Contract for independent review and advisory services regarding fish otolith microchemistryAward2 Aug 2024£12k
CEFAS24-59 Contract for services to deploy WaveRiders and Smartbuoy at seaAward2 Aug 2024£64.6k
CEFAS24-120 Contract for servicing and maintenance support on sequencing laboratory equipmentAward2 Aug 2024£13.8k
CEFAS23-106 Contract for Qiagen lab instruments service supportAward2 Aug 2024£53.5k
CEFAS24-80 Contract for data collection and outreach campaigns on Abandoned, Lost or otherwise Discarded Fishing Gear (ALDFG) in Maldives, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP)Award2 Aug 2024£160k
CEFAS24-77 ITT for services to establish & coordinate an Aquaculture Network to deliver best practise, knowledge sharing & capacity building in Bangladesh, under Ocean Country Partnership ProgrammeTender1 Aug 2024
CEFAS24-71 Contract for provision of services to collect data from seagrass habitats in Sri Lanka, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP)Award26 Jul 2024£90k
CEFAS24-49 Contract for provision of interpretation and translation services in relation to Senegal, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP).Tender24 Jul 2024
CEFAS24-48 Contract for provision of interpretation and translation services in relation to Madagascar, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP).Tender24 Jul 2024
CEFAS24-04 Contract for provision of surveillance equipment and associated services for Marine Protected Areas in the Maldives, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP) - via CCS DPS RM6235Award10 Jul 2024£174.6k
CEFAS24-01 Contract for services for assistant laboratory technician to support the Department of the Environment Water and Wastewater Laboratory in Belize, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP)Award9 Jul 2024£13.2k
CEFAS24-06 Contract for Sabellaria spp. monitoring surveys with an ARIS CameraAward27 Jun 2024£39.7k
CEFAS24-47 Contract for provision of interpretation and translation services in relation to Mozambique, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP).Tender27 Jun 2024
CEFAS24-29 Contract for services for whole genome sequencing of Streptococcus agalactiae serotypes in Indian aquatic systems, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP)Award5 Jun 2024£60.1k
CEFAS23-50 Contract for supply of Adobe Licenses (via FW KCS Y20011)Award30 May 2024£38.7k

Top suppliers

The firms this buyer awards to most often.

Frameworks

FAQs about Cefas

How many contracts has Cefas awarded?

Cefas has run 591 recorded procurements, awarding £58,634,642 in reported contract value.

Who are Cefas's biggest suppliers?

Its most frequent suppliers include Illumina Cambridge (5 awards), RS Aqua Ltd (5 awards), International SOS Assistance (UK) Ltd (Cefas DA) (3 awards), Calder Conferences (3 awards), Evolved Research and Consulting Ltd (3 awards), Bytes Software Services (Cefas DA) (3 awards).

Which frameworks does Cefas use?

Cefas appears across 20 frameworks, including GB-Lowestoft: Cefas RFQ for Improved understanding of underwater collision risks and avoidance of marine renewable energy devices for birds while diving, GB-Lowestoft: DA- Electronic Monitoring equipment, Kuwait Marine Environment - ITT for survey work to aquire baseline and monitoring data across the Kuwait marine environment on behalf of the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, GB-Lowestoft: Cefas RFQ BEEMS Bathemetric Survey, GB-Lowestoft: DA- Installation of ambient ozone monitoring system.

Where does Cefas publish its tenders?

Its notices are published via Contracts Finder.

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