# 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 suppliers: 332 - First award: 7 October 2002 - Latest award: 14 April 2026 ## Top suppliers - [Ocean Ecology](/suppliers/ocean-ecology/public-sector-contract-awards) — 14 awards - [Marine Science Support Ltd](/suppliers/marine-science-support/public-sector-contract-awards) — 12 awards - [APEM](/suppliers/apem/public-sector-contract-awards) — 8 awards - Seastar survey — 8 awards - [Illumina Cambridge](/suppliers/illumina-cambridge/public-sector-contract-awards) — 7 awards ## Contract awards ### [CEFAS24-134 Contract for a geophysical & bathymetric survey of The Wash](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f84dfe75-0e3b-474b-bd35-ab4a3b63eca5) Cefas · LandScope Engineering · £104,570 · 22 October 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-07 ITT for the provision to provide subtidal Sabellaria surveys at Hinkley Point C](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-c3a86824-354a-41f5-9c7e-e86e7de8793b) Cefas · 21 October 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-135 RFQ for a ground truthing survey of The Wash and approaches](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d25c099a-0cb9-4d9e-bdbd-68fbdbcb6cd1) Cefas · 21 October 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-117 ITT for the provision to provide RPA flights at Hinkley Point C](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-9ebb7477-e7df-4af1-8a13-301623585153) Cefas · 18 October 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-125 Contract for long read sequencing on pollack samples](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-0d278eda-4c2c-4013-8936-0a65f936d9c9) Cefas · Earlham Institute · £51,486 · 3 October 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-138 RFQ for satellite data imagery for Blue Belt island nations](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-2a55b8ab-f37a-4547-bf6e-12bb372e7a98) Cefas · 10 October 2024 · open\_tender ### [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\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5e07efe6-c0b1-4f83-850c-a78ef0e6c5d9) Cefas · Evolved Research and Consulting Ltd · £210,000 · 8 October 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-102 Contract for MPA Benthic Grabbing Survey of The Wash, with Analysis](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-85c743df-efe8-48ea-bf68-2c2fce94a3ef) Cefas · Environment Agency · £61,802 · 24 September 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-113 Contract for carbon analysis \(including Rock-Eval\) of North Sea \(Farnes\) and Celtic Sea sediment samples\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-565edcf9-3aaa-4aa0-8f5a-dee901a511e8) Cefas · UKRI as represented by British Geological Survey · £78,239 · 1 September 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-84 The Development of the Sustainable Blue Economies Website](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-322a69ef-91eb-4044-84ea-2efd13257bd0) Cefas · National Oceanography Centre Innovations Limited · £9,514 · 23 September 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-104 Invitation to Tender for services to provide a monitoring programme on recreational sea angling in England and Wales\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-ac2b201a-c096-46d7-9c7c-b3f97edc6ed6) Cefas · 23 September 2024 · open\_tender ### [Contract for rapid detection method for bacterial pathogen detection](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-888dcc63-e44e-4842-a09f-0f97e33e7062) Cefas · Molendotech Ltd · £60,000 · 4 September 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-114 Contract for carbon analysis \(including Thermogravimetric analysis\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-a1dc57cb-e70a-4a35-bccf-d9ec2139426d) Cefas · University of St Andrews \(Cefas DA\) · £32,931 · 10 September 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-107 Contract for exercises to test Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-709e3fd0-ab22-433d-906c-874446b99e9b) Cefas · PGI - Protection Group International Ltd · £66,000 · 16 September 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-95 Contract for ad hoc ecological data collection fieldwork, HPC](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f97d60c5-4c98-499e-af6c-928518ea35b8) Cefas · Carcinus Ltd · £115,000 · 20 August 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-95 Contract for ad hoc ecological data collection fieldwork, Hinkley Point](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-a4a7795e-20b6-4436-bfad-6a14e5baba23) Cefas · Marine Science Support Ltd · £115,000 · 20 August 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-70 ITT for the analysis of seabed imagery \(still images and video\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-6b04ad4e-2205-43ea-ba9b-19faf4de010b) Cefas · 19 September 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-134 Request for Quotation for a geophysical and bathymetric survey of the Sabellaria Spinulosa reefs in The Wash](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-769b3ad4-1624-4878-b2c4-076a88ab14cb) Cefas · 18 September 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-107 Contract for exercises to test Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-de1ab6d2-c673-4f1c-9717-d8ec16b3185b) Cefas · PGI - Protection Group International Ltd · £66,000 · 16 September 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-122 - Contract for Assessing susceptibility to climate change of important UK marine species](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-680b223f-61bb-4012-b0bb-ff8cc31a71cf) Cefas · SAMS Enterprise Ltd · £27,129 · 12 September 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-133 RFQ for technical advisory services on risk assessment](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-52a8ec2d-0e85-48a7-96be-f5fd0056f31f) Cefas · 16 September 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-126 RFQ for Genotype-by-sequencing approach of Colossal Squid](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-2dfc328e-f804-47ac-a8aa-a11d5663bb91) Cefas · 12 September 2024 · open\_tender ### [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\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-0d5b5f4c-d042-4592-b831-73adbe731fad) Cefas · Bangladesh Agricultural University · £59,601 · 1 September 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-88 Contract for a QuantStudio 5 Real-Time PCR System](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-ff1f67a2-a1c0-46d0-a0ad-1cbc5794a136) Cefas · Life Technologies Ltd · £30,180 · 10 September 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-111 ITT to provide marine litter image annotation services for multiple countries under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme \(OCPP\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f387ccb4-138a-4d16-aa9f-b278311b8c20) Cefas · 9 September 2024 · open\_tender Page 4 of 34; 836 total records.