The Food Standards Agency: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
GOV.UK register: Non-ministerial department·Central government·Yorkshire and the Humber·York
Official UK PPONPJRM-6866-LYYX
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Based on 13 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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497 awarded tenders, 242 different suppliers.
Open notices
4 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Effect of probiotics on Campylobacter colonisation within the broiler gut | 30 Nov 2026 | 15d | £500,000 |
| Development of a Pay and Reward Strategy for the Food Standards Agency | 7 Dec 2026 | 22d | £45,000 |
| Exposure assessment tool (EAT) and additional services | 10 Dec 2026 | 25d | £125,000 |
| Exposure assessment tool (EAT) and additional services | 10 Dec 2026 | 25d | £125,000 |
What they buyi
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
73 Research and development services59 procedures · 66% · 2 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting22 procedures · 25% · 1 open85 Health and social work services14 procedures · 16% · 1 open72 IT services: consulting, software, internet10 procedures · 11% · 2 open48 Software package and information systems9 procedures · 10% · 2 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering9 procedures · 10% · 1 open50 Repair and maintenance services2 procedures · 2%64 Postal and telecommunications services2 procedures · 2%How they buyi
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Last 24 months · 89 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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Contract98%(87 notices)
87 of 89 notices are Contract (98%).Framework2%(2 notices)
2 of 89 notices are Framework (2%).
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Open47%(42 notices)
42 of 89 notices are Open (47%).Direct award43%(38 notices)
38 of 89 notices are Direct award (43%).Limited / restricted6%(5 notices)
5 of 89 notices are Limited / restricted (6%).Route not published3%(3 notices)
3 of 89 notices are Route not published (3%).Selective1%(1 notice)
1 of 89 notices is Selective (1%).
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Based on 13 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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Based on 11 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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Based on 89 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Based on 5 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
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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| Eville and Jones | 68 | 13.7% | 1 | 73 | — |
| Fera Science Ltd | 42 | 8.5% | 17 | 46 | 8 Jul 2026 |
| Ipsos MORI | 17 | 3.4% | 4 | 17 | 9 Sept 2026 |
| LGC LIMITED | 12 | 2.4% | 4 | 13 | 29 Apr 2026 |
| IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD | 9 | 1.8% | 3 | 9 | 26 Oct 2026 |
| The Social Agency/Basis Social Limited | 8 | 1.6% | 8 | 8 | — |
| Eville & Jones (G.B.) Limited | 7 | 1.4% | 7 | 7 | 17 Dec 2024 |
| Chartered Trading Standards Institute | 7 | 1.4% | 2 | 7 | 7 Nov 2023 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 26% of 497 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 242 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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| Specialist Science and Contingency Services - Food Contingency Laboratory | Fera Science Ltd | — | — | £3,589,260 † |
| Environmental Surveillance: OSMA and OSD | Fera Science Ltd | — | 2.6 yrs · up to 2.8 yrs | £1,575,934 † ≈ £610k/yr |
| Laundry Service Provision in approved establishments in England and Wales | ELIS UK LIMITED | — | — | £1,353,000 † |
| Food and You 2: Waves 13-16 | IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD | 26 Oct 2026 | 4.3 yrs · up to 4.4 yrs | £1,198,648 ≈ £282k/yr |
| PATH-SAFE Genomic Data Platform - Technical Strand | University of Oxford | 7 Sept 2026 | 2.5 yrs | £967,000 ≈ £387k/yr |
Contracts endingi
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534 of 560 contracts carry an end date, 24 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 72 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 228 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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| Digital Forensic Services | Awarded / complete | 12 May 2026 | — |
| Food supplements Market insightMarket research services | Awarded / complete | 11 May 2026 | £90,000 |
| Effectiveness of interventions taken by UK slaughterhouses and meat cutting plants in response to unsatisfactory process hygiene criteria (PHC) resultsMarket research services | Planned | 7 May 2026 | £100,000 |
| Additional analytical methods for NDNS biomonitoringResearch and development consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 6 May 2026 | £200,000 |
| Provision of Allergen Information Evaluation: Consumer follow up survey | Awarded / complete | 1 May 2026 | — |
| Lit Review: Cyanobacterial toxins in fish arising from cyanobacterial bloomResearch and development consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 1 May 2026 | £125,000 |
Search all 228 procedures for this authority →
Contracts Finder adds 398 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. 534 of 560 published contracts have an end date; 24 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.