# 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 ### [CEFAS24-02 Contract for technical advice and services on waste management in Belize](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-41b0329c-ac9a-4b2c-a9bf-19d191c386c1) Cefas · WREN Consulting · £30,000 · 5 September 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-101 Contract to provide Research into the factors influencing levels of compliance of recreational fisheries with regulations Workplan](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-343c332d-62ee-4f09-8e37-a7fe5551a222) Cefas · Rhodes University · £20,000 · 24 July 2023 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-89 Provision of an Automatic Cutting Machine](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-3c3d0490-75bb-47b5-b877-35aa82f6658d) Cefas · Metprep Ltd · £31,990 · 7 August 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-115 Contract for marine benthic macroinvertebrate analysis of Nioz cores collected around Farnes Deep 2024](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-e2ca00dc-694c-41cb-908b-b50920c73262) Cefas · APEM Ltd · £18,983 · 22 August 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-92 Contract for marine benthic macroinvertebrate analysis of samples](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-e20fc240-8198-4dde-b403-fdda7f724ea9) Cefas · APEM Ltd · £29,127 · 15 August 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-107 RFQ for exercises to test Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-17c15634-be1d-4121-82f9-930365ddb90e) Cefas · 21 August 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-116 Request for Quotation for genotype-by-sequencing approach for estimating familial relations among pollack](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-7463c582-b587-42dd-8a8d-b10d22341ac9) Cefas · 20 August 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-98 Contract for or the supply of Vessel Chartering Services - Torness](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-0b75d0de-fa70-44b4-abc8-3a7aa22a016e) Cefas · Marshall Jakeman Marine Ltd\. · £19,400 · 8 August 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-87 Contract for multi channel low level gas flow proportional alpha beta counter](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-2bdcc2c4-9f3b-4373-9b02-43176fdf676d) Cefas · Berthold · £51,116 · 5 August 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-106 Contract for delivery of a short course on Marine Litter for the West Africa Region, under OCPP](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-4ba82415-1762-48a3-8dbd-16ce57443ffa) Cefas · Centre for Coastal Management, University of Cape Coast · £88,605 · 6 August 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-143 Contract for provision of Posit software licenses](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-9f341c80-8f9e-409f-a6e0-8a888efa7347) Cefas · Postit Software PBC · £56,276 · 20 August 2023 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-104 Contract for LIMS system upgrade and support](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d32d468a-e783-4f00-84a9-4811a590e442) Cefas · Labware Limited \(Cefas DA\) · £76,481 · 19 June 2023 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-108 Contract for mass spectrometer service support](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-0cd0c031-bbf9-413d-9eb3-6f71960a7888) Cefas · Agilent Technologies LDA UK Ltd · £48,833 · 11 July 2023 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-121 Contract for independent review and advisory services regarding fish otolith microchemistry](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-794bb238-1090-40cf-9707-65f8bd808cbf) Cefas · Mainely Fish Research Ltd · £12,000 · 1 April 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-59 Contract for services to deploy WaveRiders and Smartbuoy at sea](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-1d3590f8-e6f0-440f-9394-a175c0fc327e) Cefas · Briggs Marine Contractors Ltd · £43,074 · 13 March 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-120 Contract for servicing and maintenance support on sequencing laboratory equipment](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f25744cd-8728-4bde-8ade-9cc3e5901e9e) Cefas · Illumina Cambridge · £13,777 · 27 June 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-119 Contract for Leica laboratory equipment service support](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-3f4a1b97-167a-4acc-a0f5-e45372f0bb68) Cefas · Leica Microsystems UK Ltd\. · £10,421 · 26 June 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-106 Contract for Qiagen lab instruments service support](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-b71a80e8-1f99-4433-a58f-7fa3cc533351) Cefas · Qiagen Ltd \(Cefas DA\) · £36,147 · 11 July 2023 · awarded ### [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 \(OCPP\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-bc004e84-669f-46f4-93e7-ebd6131e9eb5) Cefas · Evolved Research and Consulting Ltd · £160,000 · 19 July 2024 · awarded ### [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-b5fd17-25f02e9a-2789-41ba-bfa5-5cc3f5755628) Cefas · 1 August 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-49 Contract for provision of interpretation and translation services in relation to Senegal, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme \(OCPP\)\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-8d2a10aa-9f33-4c49-b72f-1226ad652b46) Cefas · 31 July 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-48 Contract for provision of interpretation and translation services in relation to Madagascar, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme \(OCPP\)\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-aa3815d7-36f9-4dfb-b5e5-c7ef037d3a22) Cefas · 31 July 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-83 RFQ for onsite pipette clinic for Maintenance, Calibration & Repair](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-7d1e45ce-e786-4757-bb83-77bb713324a4) Cefas · 25 July 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-88 RFQ for a QuantStudio 5 Real-Time PCR System](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-4e735439-0880-4dde-85c9-02358959b874) Cefas · 24 July 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-67 Contract for provision of Microscope & Peripherals to Sri Lanka under OCPP](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-54c32574-3bef-4389-ae2a-c6f7f5dd81a6) Cefas · Viewpulse Limited · £35,594 · 16 July 2024 · awarded Page 5 of 34; 836 total records.