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Public sector contracts from Cefas
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- 25
- Awards, last 12 months
- 355
- Awards since 2021
- 204
- Distinct suppliers
- £45k
- Median contract value
- 43
- Ending in 18 months
Hatched quarters fall only partly inside the next 18 months. Busiest whole quarter: Q4 2027.
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- Most of its current contracts end in the next 12 months
- Has awarded contracts every year since 2021
- Took on 5 new suppliers in the last 12 months
25 contract awards published in the last 12 months, down from 49 the year before, and 355 since 2021 from 204 suppliers.
Cefas at a glance
Its most active procurement category is architecture and engineering.
Marine Science Support Ltd appears most frequently, holding 13 awards.
The median published contract value is £45k (355 contracts state a value).
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Awards per quarter
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43 contracts expiring in the next 18 months
Contract end dates are published in the original award notices. A contract approaching its end date is a re-tender with a date on it, and the point at which a buyer is most open to a conversation.
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Most frequent suppliers
- Marine Science Support LtdSME13 awards
- Ocean Ecology Limited8 awards
- RS Aqua Limited8 awards
- Labware Limited (Cefas DA)7 awards
- Illumina Cambridge LTD7 awards
- Phoenix Software LTD6 awards
- Evolved Research and Consulting Ltd6 awards
- APEM Limited6 awards
- Agilent Technologies LDA UK LTD5 awards
- Life Technologies Limited5 awards
Every supplier to Cefas with a profile64
- 10X Genomics Incorporated1
- Advania UK LTD1
- Agilent Technologies LDA UK LTD5
- Alemba Limited2
- Alexander Mann Solutions Limited3
- ALMA Economics Limited1
- APEM Limited6
- Bangor UniversityCharity4
- Beckman Coulter United Kingdom LTD1
- Bell Integrated Communications Limited1
- BOXXE LImited1
- Briggs Marine Contractors Limited2
- British Geological Survey1
- BRUKER UK Limited2
- Calder Conferences Limited3
- CGI IT UK Limited1
- Clue Computing Company Limited1
- Connect Internet Solutions Ltd1
- Content + Cloud Limited2
- COPTRZ Limited1
- Elementar UK LTD1
- Evident Europe GmbH – UK Branch1
- FERA Science Ltd1
- Finyx Consulting Limited1
- Gowling WLG (UK) LLP1
- HAYS Specialist Recruitment LTD4
- Hitachi Solutions Europe Limited1
- Houlder LTD1
- IIC Technologies Limited1
- Illumina Cambridge LTD7
- Jeremy Benn Associates Limited T/A JBA Consulting Limited2
- JISC Services LimitedCharity1
- Landscape Engineering LTD1
- Leica Microsystems (UK) Limited1
- Life Technologies Limited5
- Marine Science Support LtdSME13
- Metprep LTDSME2
- Mirion Technologies (CANBERRA UK) Limited1
- National Oceanography CentreCharity1
- Ocean Ecology Limited8
- Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC2
- Oxford Policy Management Limited2
- Phoenix Software LTD6
- Planet Ocean Limited1
- PRENAX Ltd1
- QIAGEN Ltd1
- RICOH UK Ltd1
- RS Aqua Limited8
- RSK Environment LTD1
- SCiQuip Ltd1
- Swansea UniversityCharity1
- The Marine Biological Association of the UKCharity2
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Ltd1
- UKRI as represented by British Geological Survey3
- Unit 4 Business Software Limited3
- University Of Exeter1
- University of Hull4
- University Of Leeds1
- University Of Plymouth1
- University Of Portsmouth1
- Visionist Limited1
- Vodafone UK Limited3
- WATERS Limited2
- Willis Towers Watson Limited1
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Most active categories
The CPV codes on this work
The codes Cefas classifies its contracts under. Each one shows who else buys that work, the typical value, and what is coming up for renewal.
- 71620000Analysis services31
- 38000000Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)19
- 79311000Survey services17
- 90700000Environmental services15
- 80510000Specialist training services10
- 73111000Research laboratory services8
- 71621000Technical analysis or consultancy services8
- 32342400Acoustic devices8
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Cefas, in short
Who does Cefas award contracts to?
Across 355 contracts recorded since 2021, Cefas has used 204 different suppliers. The most frequent are Marine Science Support Ltd (13 contracts), Ocean Ecology Limited (8 contracts), RS Aqua Limited (8 contracts).
What does Cefas buy?
Its most active procurement categories are architecture and engineering, business and professional services, IT services. Categories are derived from the CPV codes published on each award notice.
When do Cefas contracts come up for renewal?
43 contracts awarded by Cefas have an end date within the next 18 months, the earliest on 17 Nov 2026. End dates come from the original award notices, so they are visible well before any re-tender is advertised.
How much does Cefas spend on contracts?
The median published contract value is £45k, across the 355 contracts that state a value. Published values are not added up here: a framework's value is a ceiling shared by every supplier on it, and the same value is often repeated across lots, so adding them up would overstate what is spent.
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How these figures are worked out
- The last 12 months: award notices published from 9 November 2025 to 8 November 2026, each contract counted once however many suppliers or rows it has. The same window is used everywhere on this page.
- Year on year: Its published contract awards have fallen in each of the last two years. Contracts by publication date in the 12 months to 8 Nov 2026 and the two years before it, oldest first: 131, 49 and 25. A change of more than 15% counts as a rise or fall; each year needs at least 5 contracts.
- Most of its current contracts end in the next 12 months: 30 of its 45 contracts with an end date still to come end by 8 November 2027. Shown when that is more than half, with at least 5.
- Has awarded contracts every year since 2021: At least one contract in every calendar year from 2021 to 2026, by award date (or publication date where the award date is later). Our records begin in 2021.
- Took on 5 new suppliers in the last 12 months: Suppliers named on a contract it awarded and published since 9 November 2025, and on none before. Counted by organisation, not by spelling.
- Most recent award: recorded 14 Apr 2026 (7 months ago).
- Since 2021: totals count contracts by award date from January 2021, and suppliers by organisation rather than by spelling.
Sources
Contract data on this page is sourced from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder and published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under that licence. Figures cover contract award notices published from January 2021 onward, with comprehensive coverage from 2023. Earlier contracts, and any award not published to Find a Tender or Contracts Finder, will not appear. Figures may lag the source portals. Relative dates (such as “in 6 days”) count from 8 November 2026, when this page was built.
How to cite this data
Tender Radar (2026) Public sector contracts from Cefas [Dataset]. Professor AI. Available at: https://tender-radar.co.uk/buyers/cefas (Accessed: 8 November 2026).
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