Cefas: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
GOV.UK register: Executive agency·East of England·Lowestoft
Official UK PPONPPGW-5299-JGTN
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Based on 17 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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488 awarded tenders, 340 different suppliers.
Open notices
3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| CEFAS26-115 ITT for a Small Autonomous Underwater Vehicle | 16 Nov 2026 | 32h | £100,000 |
| CEFAS26-118 Laser Diffraction Particle Size and Image Particle Shape Analyser | 7 Dec 2026 | 22d | £66,667 |
| CEFAS26-120 Statutory shellfish E.coli monitoring service for Shetland and Orkney | 9 Dec 2026 | 24d | £600,000 |
What they buyi
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting22 procedures · 13%71 Architectural, construction, engineering20 procedures · 12% · 1 open38 Laboratory, optical and precision13 procedures · 8% · 1 open73 Research and development services13 procedures · 8%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet11 procedures · 6%34 Transport equipment and products7 procedures · 4%63 Supporting and auxiliary transport; travel6 procedures · 3%80 Education and training services6 procedures · 3%How they buyi
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Last 24 months · 172 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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Contract99%(170 notices)
170 of 172 notices are Contract (99%).Framework1%(2 notices)
2 of 172 notices are Framework (1%).
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Direct award73%(125 notices)
125 of 172 notices are Direct award (73%).Open25%(43 notices)
43 of 172 notices are Open (25%).Route not published1%(2 notices)
2 of 172 notices are Route not published (1%).Limited / restricted1%(1 notice)
1 of 172 notices is Limited / restricted (1%).Selective1%(1 notice)
1 of 172 notices is Selective (1%).
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Based on 17 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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Based on 14 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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Based on 172 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Based on 2 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
Who wins herei
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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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| Marine Science Support Ltd | 17 | 3.5% | 6 | 19 | 20 Jan 2026 |
| Illumina Cambridge Ltd | 12 | 2.5% | 6 | 12 | 4 Nov 2026 |
| Ocean Ecology | 9 | 1.8% | 3 | 11 | 6 Oct 2025 |
| Agilent Technologies LDA UK Ltd | 8 | 1.6% | 5 | 8 | 30 Jan 2026 |
| APEM | 8 | 1.6% | 3 | 8 | 21 Jan 2025 |
| University of Exeter | 7 | 1.4% | 3 | 7 | 10 Sept 2026 |
| Briggs Marine Contractors Limited | 6 | 1.2% | 4 | 7 | 16 Sept 2026 |
| University of Hull | 6 | 1.2% | 3 | 6 | 11 Apr 2024 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 8% of 488 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 340 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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Largest published awards i | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| CEFAS26-75 Contract for provision of pelagic trawler vessel for the IESNS survey | Sunbeam Fishing Limited | 3 Sept 2026 | 1 yrs · up to 3 yrs | £1,215,000 ≈ £1.2m/yr |
| CEFAS26-10 Provision of Offshore Observer Services for Biological Data Collection | SeaScope Fisheries Research Limited | 16 Mar 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £750,000 ≈ £250k/yr |
| CEFAS25-03 Contract for event facilitation services in the UK and overseas | Amplitude Event Solutions | — | — | £600,000 † |
| CEFAS25-25 Contract for provision of intertidal Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) flights for Hinkley Point C Nuclear New Build project | Marine Science Support Ltd | — | 1.3 yrs · up to 4.3 yrs | £500,000 † ≈ £400k/yr |
| CEFAS25-80 Contract for Bathymetric surveys Sizewell C for the BEEMS programme | LandScope Engineering Ltd | — | 1 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £500,000 † ≈ £500k/yr |
Contracts endingi
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490 of 524 contracts carry an end date, 3 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 110 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 227 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| CEFAS26-96 Equipment Servicing Agreement Lowestoft | Awarded / complete | 15 Jul 2026 | — |
| CEFAS26-91 | Awarded / complete | 15 Jul 2026 | — |
| CEFAS26-73 Solent Bass Survey Vessel CharterResearch vessel services | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2026 | £33,500 |
| Contract for the MCCIP Website Development, Hosting and Support (RM6190) | Awarded / complete | 9 Jul 2026 | — |
| CEFAS25-04 Thermofisher Servicing Agreement | Awarded / complete | 1 Jul 2026 | — |
| CEFAS26-68 Contract for Marine Benthic Macroinvertebrate Samples ProcessingResearch laboratory services | Awarded / complete | 29 Jun 2026 | £50,000 |
| CEFAS26-82 Repair and Maintenance contract for PEAK instruments | Awarded / complete | 21 May 2026 | — |
Search all 227 procedures for this authority →
Contracts Finder adds 375 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.
About this data
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 490 of 524 published contracts have an end date; 3 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.