# 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 ### [CEFAS23-135 Contract for water quality sampling and analysis services for Chilika Lagoon under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme \(OCPP\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-6b9489b5-1354-4b92-800a-9ec875282c71) Cefas · Berhampur University · £33,143 · 28 February 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-23 Contract for Uninterrupted Power Supply equipment for OCPP \(CEFAS UT\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-708d3604-f891-4888-8b71-dd23f2b81bff) Cefas · Belize Formulators Ltd\. · £8,805 · 28 February 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-10 Contract for microscope & peripherals for BAHA Belize for OCPP \(CEFAS UT\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-ac8de8db-89b4-4ad3-819a-16af8524145f) Cefas · Belize Formulators Ltd\. · £24,145 · 27 February 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-120 Contract for Scallop Dredge Surveys](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-aede8eaf-4933-407c-8c33-66cb1c5a9e89) Cefas · Evening Star FR LLP · £430,000 · 2 February 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-09 Contract supply of microscope & peripherals DOE Belize OCPP \(Cefas UT](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-1c4304e5-651d-4927-8890-cacc2ba1baa9) Cefas · Belize Formulators Ltd\. · £6,344 · 27 February 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-17 RFQ for seafood value chain mapping in Solomon Islands under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-edb7d30e-5b07-48af-afc5-63882deb19e3) Cefas · 7 March 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-08 Contract for the provision of a solvent recycler under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme \(OCPP\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-96af9b11-637d-4d94-8ad2-15b01799cf49) Cefas · Belize Formulators Ltd\. · £23,010 · 27 February 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-05 Contract for provision of a tissue processor and associated maintenance and servicing, for BAHA in Belize, under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme \(OCPP\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-c6265d57-86f8-4d16-aa22-1c561f8ccbe6) Cefas · Shandon Diagnostics Limited t/a Epredia · £43,842 · 1 March 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-157 Contract for services to support of Sri Lanka shark and ray trade under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme \(OCPP\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f4cd347f-d029-4ee9-bb56-be93dc3e56c6) Cefas · Blue Resources Trust · £169,786 · 25 January 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-129 Contract for Marine Plastic Education Outreach and Beach Monitoring Data Collection in Sri Lanka under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme \(OCPP\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5ea83001-e393-4e99-937b-0b752fe079bf) Cefas · Sustainable Clean Lanka · £86,550 · 23 February 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-133 Contract for services for the collection of data in support of Plume Mapping by Remote Sensing in Kayankerni Marine Sanctuary, Sri Lanka under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme \(OCPP\)\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-bb895c6a-9a6e-427e-aa4d-c23167f1701e) Cefas · Blue Resources Trust · £54,001 · 23 February 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-05 RFQ for Litter Outreach, Education and Workshop in Maldives](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-63bc28ca-f5a9-4433-9eab-21e3602ab6f5) Cefas · EXXPEDITION CIC · £64,000 · 23 March 2023 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-131 Contract for data collection from ALDFG & EOLFG sources in Sri Lanka](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-37ab4599-ca32-4a98-a78b-c735b1f703e9) Cefas · Lanka Upcycles Pvt Ltd · £13,708 · 14 February 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-35 Contract for provision of Open Athens electronic journal platform service](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-b099e112-9456-4726-bb61-484a57a22599) Cefas · Jisc Services Ltd · £21,875 · 24 January 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-34 Contract for services to conduct marine sediment analysis for calibrating carbon reactivity](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-a333b986-281f-4b18-9030-8ce27e64438d) Cefas · University of Leeds · £17,782 · 10 January 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-33 Contract for license and warranty package for GridION sequencing instrument for Cefas laboratory](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-cad55c93-aaa3-4366-ae1f-2ed527c49e02) Cefas · Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc · £11,250 · 27 December 2023 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-31 Contract for software license for oil spill response model](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-624c4c07-0d50-46bc-8956-0c5419a3cd3d) Cefas · Stiftelsen SINTEF · £22,600 · 15 December 2023 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-30 Contract for provision of fetal bovine serum for Cefas tissue culture function](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-90687dcb-536a-4592-ad11-14a7b8a5483e) Cefas · Life Technologies Ltd · £17,600 · 14 December 2023 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-137 Contract for Quotation for LA-ICP-MS analysis on fish otoliths](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-265457af-deee-4f35-9b93-673fdc341c29) Cefas · University of Hull · £30,799 · 5 December 2023 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-118 Statutory shellfish sample collection](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-698621f2-b926-45f9-81fb-a1f68317b53d) Cefas · HMMH \(Scotland\) Ltd · £1,944,000 · 18 December 2023 · awarded ### [CEFAS23-156 ITT for Western English Channel Sole & Plaice Time Series Survey](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-621dd055-d5ff-46b6-b3fc-e352d968b83f) Cefas · 11 January 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-09 RFQ provision of microscope & peripherals](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-065e0e43-d93e-4ad2-9517-b11d894c665f) CEFAS · 11 January 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-08 Request for Quotation for provision of a solvent recycler under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d8da9c63-b46c-4834-abf7-679e63605543) CEFAS · 10 January 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-10 RFQ for microscope and peripherals for Belize under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme \(OCPP\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-8db0447e-afce-484c-9667-8afb81b4d4db) Cefas · 9 January 2024 · open\_tender ### [CEFAS24-05 RFQ for the provision of a tissue processor for the Ocean Country Partnership Programme\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-210b6f2b-3a3b-45dc-b5d9-25654eecc529) CEFAS · 9 January 2024 · open\_tender Page 8 of 34; 836 total records.