Agri-Food and Biosciences InstitutePublic Procurement Organisation: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Central government·Northern Ireland·Belfast
Official UK PPONPBLN-5294-NVHZ
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 14 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
12 awarded tenders, 14 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
38 Laboratory, optical and precision9 procedures · 69%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental4 procedures · 31%03 Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry2 procedures · 15%32 Radio, television, communication2 procedures · 15%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals2 procedures · 15%34 Transport equipment and products2 procedures · 15%35 Security, fire-fighting, police2 procedures · 15%42 Industrial machinery2 procedures · 15%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 13 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Contract100%(13 notices)
13 of 13 notices are Contract (100%).
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
Open77%(10 notices)
10 of 13 notices are Open (77%).Selective15%(2 notices)
2 of 13 notices are Selective (15%).Direct award8%(1 notices)
1 of 13 notices are Direct award (8%).
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 14 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 11 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 13 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 12 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| Li-Cor Biosciences Uk Ltd | 1 | 8.3% | 1 | 2 | 17 Feb 2026 |
| R. Kennedy & Co. (NI) Limited | 1 | 8.3% | 1 | 2 | 11 Dec 2025 |
| IDEAGEN PLC | 1 | 8.3% | 1 | 1 | 1 May 2025 |
| Ideagen Gael Ltd | 1 | 8.3% | 1 | 1 | 1 May 2025 |
| RS Aqua Ltd | 1 | 8.3% | 1 | 1 | 26 Jan 2026 |
| AB Sciex UK Limited | 1 | 8.3% | 1 | 1 | 5 Feb 2026 |
| STEPHEN W MOORE LIMITED | 1 | 8.3% | 1 | 1 | 11 Dec 2025 |
| Illumina Cambridge Ltd | 1 | 8.3% | 1 | 1 | 9 Jul 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 25% of 12 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 14 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 15 of 15 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| ID 6235074 - AFBI - Supply, Delivery and Servicing of Discrete Analyser | Thermo Electron Manufacturing Ltd t/a Thermo Fisher Scientific | 30 Apr 2027 | £129,943 |
| ID 6219059 - AFBI - RIVER MONITORING EQUIPMENT | LAB & PROCESS INSTRUMENTATION LTD | 31 Mar 2028 | £404,057 |
Recent procedures
Latest 17 of 13 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£6.2m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 16 award records on 12 procedures (14 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier, 1 with no supplier published). 0 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 15 of 15 published contracts carry a period end; 2 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.