# 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 ### [CEFAS24-71 ITT for services to conduct data collection in seagrass habitats in Sri Lanka, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme \(OCPP\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-b5aaef8e-3b6c-4226-b88a-9be2674a4e51) Cefas · 10 May 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS23-147 Contract for a smartphone app for UKOT MPA wildlife sightings](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-9db7bba2-13ad-4f8f-90b6-1b4f72c57ed6) Cefas · Connect Internet Solutions · £29,968 · 25 March 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-43 Contract for ZIA Web Filtering Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-25be7dd0-4e0e-4ec2-a9b3-9995047e2534) Cefas · Visionist Limited · £101,569 · 24 April 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-17 - Contract for seafood value chain mapping for the Solomon Islands under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme \(OCPP\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-2505626b-1900-4a56-ad95-f4498792f4f9) Cefas · Alma Economics · £59,500 · 11 April 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-52 RFQ for technical advisory services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-63141782-0894-45f3-af21-fda56fa410af) Cefas · 1 May 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-06 Request for Quotation for the provision to provide subtidal Sabellaria spp\. monitoring surveys using an Adaptive Resolution Imaging Sonar \(ARIS\) camera at Sizewell, Suffolk UK](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5f8db0e7-9909-43bc-a1b8-6a36621ea402) Cefas · 29 April 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS23-56 Contract for Training\(working in/on/near water & emergency first aid\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-a494df07-d410-416e-9a02-9a1d1dbbea37) Cefas · Spartan Rescue - CEFAS DA · £42,697 · 1 April 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-61 Contract for provision of bespoke flow cells for spatial transcriptomics sequencing](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-c0592702-de25-4b8d-ad12-81fff8e20de7) Cefas · Illumina Cambridge · £39,049 · 19 March 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-75 Contract renewal for maintenance and support services for NextSeq 550 laboratory equipment](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-59f20501-7a5d-42b2-b101-0e24829ff134) Cefas · Illumina Cambridge · £57,432 · 8 April 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-60 Contract for provision of renewal and new Anchor Lab software licenses](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d30252e3-2092-4090-ac1a-f4ab5529845e) Cefas · Anchor Lab K/S · £32,105 · 15 March 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-58 Contract for provision of service and maintenance of Clearwater Sensors equipment](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-aa8a7c63-3654-4399-9eb2-78e09a5f36ee) Cefas · Clearwater Sensors Ltd · £45,980 · 13 March 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-57 Contract for provision of bespoke library preparation kits for RNA sequencing](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-e4ff5cdf-1d24-479d-8089-4985a0c59461) Cefas · 10X Genomics · £40,284 · 18 March 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-56 Contract for services for environmental DNA high-throughput sequencing of water samples](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-7396aaf9-7d3d-4834-98fa-fe60c1584c56) Cefas · Earlham Institute · £14,172 · 4 March 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-55 Contract for services to deploy SmartBuoy and WaveRider equipment in Liverpool Bay during FY23/24](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-180fc0fe-4df1-4314-b1f2-9978bf96278a) Cefas · AFBI · £40,000 · 31 March 2023 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-169 Contract for venue hire services for Blue Belt Symposium 2024](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-34ba5be4-f0d4-41fb-8048-ffa6434ae6f1) Cefas · Calder Conferences · £137,120 · 27 November 2023 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-117 Contract Variation for provision of unique WaveRider equipment and consumables](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-1ac229fc-3b20-4199-84bf-d21251ce0b48) Cefas · RS Aqua Ltd · £89,202 · 14 March 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-130 Contract for multi-media creation and distribution services in Sri Lanka for the Ocean Country Partnership Programme \(OCPP\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-21a52948-8e7f-4caa-8ba7-8c91f728cd4f) Cefas · Inbound Hype \(Pvt\) Ltd · £489,500 · 4 November 2023 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-40 Contract for Marine benthic macroinvertebrate sample analysis](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-3f80b87b-fb73-4bdc-b17c-d83270ababc7) Cefas · University of Hull · £10,395 · 11 April 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-39 ITT for services for holistic approaches to investigating disease in aquatic animal systems in India, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme \(OCPP\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-34650919-3469-4026-a622-b27164da591d) Cefas · 9 April 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-42 Contract for the tagging of fish to support the BEEMS HPC Compensation package](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-2d3318ac-0a5d-4572-bb7f-eee5a60e1eea) Cefas · Swansea University · £24,000 · 27 March 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-29 Contract for whole genome sequencing of Streptococcus agalactiae serotypes in Indian aquatic systems, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme \(OCPP\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-6cb3416f-c1d4-487d-bb13-3ca996b43139) Cefas · 3 April 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-46 Request for Quotation for technical advisory services on Potentially Polluting Wrecks \(PPW\) in Solomon Islands under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme \(OCPP\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5c046730-d811-4629-8396-497b3079a9bd) Cefas · 25 March 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-40 RFQ for Marine benthic macroinvertebrate sample analysis](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-9c65da9c-afdd-4b3a-9907-b0c9bdf45fb2) Cefas · 18 March 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS23-155 Contract Marine benthic macroinvertebrate sample processing](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5be9ecb6-ab8c-41bd-afaa-82bab3642502) Cefas · APEM Ltd · £12,970 · 14 March 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-44 Pollack Population Size Study in the Western English Channel](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-af30f70c-135d-4081-b946-e838ad9d8701) Cefas · 13 March 2024 · open\_tender Page 7 of 34; 836 total records.