# Cefas: UK public-sector contract awards > A public buyer profile built from sourced government contract award notices. ## Key facts - Awards: 836 - Known award value: £40,493,534 - Distinct contract winners: 332 - First award: 7 October 2002 - Latest award: 14 April 2026 ## Top contract winners - [Ocean Ecology](/contract-winners/ocean-ecology/public-sector-contract-awards): 14 awards - [Marine Science Support Ltd](/contract-winners/marine-science-support/public-sector-contract-awards): 12 awards - [APEM](/contract-winners/apem/public-sector-contract-awards): 8 awards - Seastar survey: 8 awards - [Illumina Cambridge](/contract-winners/illumina-cambridge/public-sector-contract-awards): 7 awards ## Contract awards ### [GB-Lowestoft: Planetary Mill](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-e157507f-3831-4f60-818b-732b30644c74) Cefas · 25 June 2019 · open\_tender ### [GB-Lowestoft: Dissolved Oxygen Analyser with Photometric endpoint detection](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-cfc716d4-a7c3-4f43-b00b-c3032e2df52c) Cefas · 20 June 2019 · open\_tender ### [GB-Lowestoft: Cefas RFQ for a 128x128 Focal Plane Array MCT Detector \(FPA\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-108021c1-a1c8-4b35-8be2-fe27ebcb720e) Cefas · 19 June 2019 · open\_tender ### [GB-Lowestoft: Cefas RFQ for a benchtop FTIR with microscope for microplastic analysis](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-790f3792-4fae-4929-b53f-b550f50f3f69) Cefas · 19 June 2019 · open\_tender ### [GB-Lowestoft: Cefas RFQ for the Provision of scenario-based exercises to test Cefas Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-2a3c82d5-9b7b-4270-8082-ca8a264379d4) Cefas · Operational Command Training Org \(Octo\) · £36,000 · 17 June 2019 · awarded ### [GB-Lowestoft: Cefas Request for Quotation for the provision of a portable high precision salinometer](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-6d76b261-f71f-4e89-a3d5-0096d98ae1d0) Cefas · Ocean Scientific International Ltd \(OSIL\) · £31,350 · 25 June 2018 · awarded ### [GB-Lowestoft: Cefas ITT to supply communications services supporting the Seafood Innovation Fund \(SIF\) on behalf of Cefas](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-b73f2649-ead4-47a2-8c55-13e00f9210d3) Cefas · 14 June 2019 · open\_tender ### [GB-Lowestoft: Ecotoxicology and Biodegradation Studies for the Environmental Risk Assessment of Chemicals](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-3db34bd9-3d8d-4bf5-b1f3-bfce77dfb6ea) Cefas · Chemex Environmental International Ltd · £33,000 · 12 June 2019 · awarded ### [GB-Lowestoft: Cefas RFQ for a fully automated in-situ hybridisation, immunohistochemistry and histological staining system](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-14c69fa1-2da5-4352-99e7-0e6f04ee2afc) Cefas · Leica Biosystems Division of Leica Microsystems · £90,000 · 11 June 2019 · awarded ### [GB-Lowestoft: Alpha Ensembles](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-43c28d7b-12d1-46e5-b9e9-241b20a7bf38) Cefas · Advanced Measurement Technology · £91,000 · 11 June 2019 · awarded ### [GB-Lowestoft: Cefas RFQ for a Flow Cytometer](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-24ae7860-8ba3-4071-ab13-67f96fb0aac4) Cefas · Beckman Coulter · £29,368 · 11 June 2019 · awarded ### [GB-Lowestoft: Cefas DNA Extraction Robot](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-bf2b3c6d-539b-402e-8092-0b8cb327811d) Cefas · Promega · £41,067 · 31 May 2019 · awarded ### [GB-Weymouth: Cefas RFQ for cassette writer with collection system and barcode scanning equipment](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d8b8e3b6-5d21-4348-a587-ac79f759510a) Cefas · 10 June 2019 · open\_tender ### [GB-Weymouth: Cefas RFQ to provide 2 \(Two\) Histology Microtomes](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-4a0561b2-775f-459a-8829-20a08dd395ee) Cefas · 10 June 2019 · open\_tender ### [GB-Weymouth: Cefas RFQ to provide a Tissue Processor to Cefas](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-a2d4fb5f-5b5d-4c1a-ac87-746d883deba7) Cefas · 10 June 2019 · open\_tender ### [GB-Weymouth: Cefas RFQ for a histology slide writer](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-a509f0a4-e853-448b-8882-3f3754bd6211) Cefas · 10 June 2019 · open\_tender ### [GB-Lowestoft: for a portable benchtop ATR-FTIR with laptop and polymer database](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-63e1438e-fb2d-48cf-bbe4-42921ddf8b39) Cefas · Agilent Technologies LDA UK LTD · £24,098 · 8 January 2019 · awarded ### [GB-Lowestoft: Hand deployable underwater video camera system](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-695147c1-76dd-4061-87a9-0bd37790ad20) Cefas · Subsea Technology & Rentals · £17,275 · 28 February 2019 · awarded ### [GB-Lowestoft: For modelling Hurricane Irma effects on the nearshore and coastal regions of Antigua and Barbuda](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-6d02687d-912b-4ab7-9157-3a1d1a827237) Cefas · Ulster University · £15,500 · 14 March 2019 · awarded ### [GB-Lowestoft: Cefas Request for Quotation for the Provision of Service Contracts for Analytical Instruments](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-218aae90-e01a-46c9-a0fb-c57771795f30) Cefas · Agilent Technologies LDA UK Ltd · £43,142 · 30 April 2019 · awarded ### [GB-Lowestoft: Ecotoxicology and Biodegradation Studies for the Environmental Risk Assessment of Chemicals](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-944f59f3-5bf9-4cd6-9dd1-e0a6f8cd2887) Cefas · 7 June 2019 · open\_tender ### [GB-Lowestoft: CEFAS EOI Opportunity to take part in the tagging of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna \(ABFT\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-2a22c7e5-0e6d-4d8e-b0ad-61f2ff600cad) Cefas · 7 June 2019 · open\_tender ### [GB-Lowestoft: ITT supply of suitable vessel\(s\) to support the proposal FSP63 Inshore longline fisheries survey in the southern North Sea](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-77054c1c-552e-4a88-8c0d-d0c503d53a9a) Cefas · 7 June 2019 · open\_tender ### [GB-Farne Deeps: ITT supply suitable vessel\(s\) to support FSP65 further improvements to net grid in the Farne Deeps single rig fishery\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-7724dc99-424f-4770-a58f-9080091ac8c5) Cefas · 7 June 2019 · open\_tender ### [GB-Lowestoft: Cefas RFQ for the provision of vessel services to support a tagging study of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna \(ABFT\) in UK waters 2019 'Wales'](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-8208849d-e534-4000-9e3d-6ebac33cc05a) Cefas · 7 June 2019 · open\_tender Page 23 of 34; 836 total records.