# Fera Science Limited — UK public sector contract awards > A prime supplier profile built from sourced government contract award notices. ## Key facts - Awards: 80 - Known award value: £10,580,109 - First award: 11 March 2015 - Latest award: 30 January 2026 ## Top public sector buyers - [The Food Standards Agency](/buyers/the-food-standards-agency/contract-awards) — 27 awards - Defra Network eTendering Portal — 20 awards - [Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs](/buyers/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs/contract-awards) — 15 awards - [Health & Safety Executive](/buyers/health-safety-executive/contract-awards) — 4 awards - [Defra](/buyers/defra/contract-awards) — 3 awards ## Contract awards ### [RDE888 - Provision of statutory shellfish monitoring services for Scotland, Engl](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f032bf8f-d3aa-4db9-a8ec-e2c3f4e3a692) Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science · £50,000 · 31 October 2025 · awarded ### [RDE993 - Expansion of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance \(NMR\) honey database for authen](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-aad9d9e3-b86a-4ab7-8932-f7a5d43aba40) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · £74,944 · 30 January 2026 · awarded ### [RDE997 - MMO1475 - Collection of social impact data relating to the Berried Lobs](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-add042c9-503e-4070-aa28-230b8f079c8f) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · £71,197 · 30 January 2026 · awarded ### [DTK Evaluation](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f22d4461-e520-444e-809d-2000c1b61a20) Home Office · £85,014 · 13 November 2025 · awarded ### [RDE948 - Investigating innovative ways to deliver Defra policy customer require](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-8e3a9127-084e-4015-9467-8f9499d11e78) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · £81,077 · 13 November 2025 · awarded ### [2024-741 Monitoring of Contaminants in UK cereals](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-7684cf70-e912-4df0-8ef4-6e89962bc0ba) AHDB · £522,000 · 24 July 2025 · awarded ### [RDE877 - Pesticide Load Indicator - Phase 7 - Method Optimisation](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d6793b8b-1414-44f7-b0bc-9e7bef38bcd1) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · £29,938 · 2 September 2025 · awarded ### [Imported Food Sampling, Analysis and Reporting](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-cadec848-dd1c-496a-a38e-17c747db2359) Food Standards Agency · £450,000 · 5 August 2025 · awarded ### [The risk and uncertainty associated with participation in green finance markets](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-93f452ed-2be0-43cb-a9cf-819065bc74e8) Natural England · £33,180 · 25 August 2023 · awarded ### [Development and Optimisation of Methods for Detection and Speciation of Offal](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-32a20490-e934-4182-9af7-6c4cbbbecce8) Defra · £99,947 · 28 May 2025 · awarded ### [RDE727 Horizon Scanning to Explore Risks to Food Authenticity and Food Chain Re](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-618e2b76-3d9a-47e6-962e-0e8417e862d4) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · £49,188 · 16 May 2025 · awarded ### [RDE780 - Exploring opportunities for eDNA and molecular datasets to underpin UK](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5203ac64-ccc1-4a98-9671-5c469bc1cf6b) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · £75,332 · 2 May 2025 · awarded ### [Specialist Science and Contingency Services \(SSCS\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-be2e82b5-6c95-4be2-a71c-93d2f245d4c0) Defra · £345,710,030 · 31 March 2025 · awarded ### [Determination of hydrogen cyanide \(HCN\) bioavailability after food consumption](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-6bcdebe6-ee80-471d-8560-8587adaa725e) Food Standards Agency · £249,620 · 25 February 2025 · awarded ### [National Reference Laboratory for Food and Feed](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-0f7cdfea-e93b-497b-afd2-252b96fb1837) Food Standards Agency · £382,503 · 9 January 2025 · awarded ### [RDE759 Developing significance ratings for asset-service matrix's \(ASMs\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-e6d7d123-ad76-471b-a89f-6e8e796ac1de) Environment Agency · £24,614 · 9 January 2025 · awarded ### [National Reference Laboratory for chemical hazards](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d6e6ad9e-8b51-485b-b5ee-77142aed6976) Food Standards Agency · £324,745 · 26 October 2024 · awarded ### [RDE723 Pesticide Load Indicator - Phase 6](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-c92e260d-88db-4c9b-9caf-6a8877fb7b14) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · £49,648 · 26 November 2024 · awarded ### [CEFAS24-157 Contract for services to process sargassum sample to test for organics and inorganics](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-b7913d65-b798-4fb5-b8fd-009c7d731279) Cefas · £25,064 · 4 November 2024 · awarded ### [Review of current and emerging analytical methods for the testing of oil for authenticity](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-4b725c6d-4170-4fc0-9842-c560383891ff) Food Standards Agency · £40,000 · 30 September 2024 · awarded ### [Bioinformatics contractor to assess applications for approval of GMOs](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-74edcb74-5565-485a-854f-e69940188b03) Food Standards Agency · £300,000 · 22 April 2024 · awarded ### [Modelling Services Framework - Lot 2 \(Plant Health\) - Fera](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-a2d62d6d-d6ca-41c4-bc67-4c2dc876709f) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · £0 · 6 March 2024 · awarded ### [Food Defence Contingency Laboratory 2024/2025](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-26c40050-1e6c-4d3d-a3ea-c7ba173f5729) Food Standards Agency · £146,886 · 2 April 2024 · awarded ### [Wood metabarcoding](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-3544288d-66ae-4bb3-9b3b-79680a5864e5) Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew · £12,000 · 31 October 2023 · awarded ### [PFAS in food and feed ring-trial](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-e72ca44a-3bce-49a9-9c70-e1895d3f064f) Food Standards Agency · £112,365 · 1 December 2023 · awarded Page 1 of 4; 80 total records.