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# CEFAS25-74 – Contract for Coastal Health Programme – Association of IFCA’s

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cefas25-74-contract-for-coastal-health-programme-association-of-ifca-s-ocds-h6vhtk-05d9d9). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Cefas: "CEFAS25-74 – Contract for Coastal Health Programme – Association of IFCA’s". Published status: complete. Contract Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Cefas](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/cefas-gov-ea53)
- **Contract Value (direct award):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Below threshold - without competition
- **Main Category:** Not published
- **Classifications (CPV):** None published
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £67,400 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cefas25-74-contract-for-coastal-health-programme-association-of-ifca-s-ocds-h6vhtk-05d9d9#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05d9d9`

## Before you bid
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- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
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- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cefas25-74-contract-for-coastal-health-programme-association-of-ifca-s-ocds-h6vhtk-05d9d9#tl-md)

## Description
The Coastal Health Partnership is a consortium of governmental and non-governmental organisations that leads the UK preparedness to declines in wild animal and plant health (ecosystem health/ecosystems functioning, resilience?) around the UK coast. The partnership was formed under a HM Treasury Shared Outcomes Funded pilot programme and continues to operate through a meta-community of government agencies, academic research groups, citizen science initiatives, local groups of interest, local and national response units and industry bodies.
The partnership has four aims:
1. To monitor changes in coastal health, produce risk assessments and prediction analysis of changes in environmental pressures for key commercial species in coastal zones
2. To work with the industry to increase resilience to those risks, future-proof the inshore fishing and aquaculture sector and enable growth.
3. To provide scientific expertise and state-of-the-art research capacity and advise policy and decision-makers when dealing with (investigating?) acute declines in health of coastal organisms.
4. To facilitate engagement and “knowledge exchange” between local communities and public bodies on perceived risks and changes to environmental and human health.
Requirement:
Following on from the work delivered in the pilot phase of the Coastal Health programme, The Association of Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities (IFCA) has been selected to support delivery of core requirements as follows:
• To attend Working Group meetings with Coastal Health partners to review the proposal for a Coastal Health Operational Model and its implementation.
• Work with all IFCAs to input in the development of protocols and tools to improve our preparedness, response and intelligence gathering processes, and trial their implementation at a national scale.
• To engage with other response groups including PREMIAM (Pollution Response in Emergencies – Marine Impact Assessment and Monitoring) cells, environment groups and Tactical Coordination Groups (TCGs) and enable collaboration and streamlined communication pathways when dealing with a complex event affecting the health of coastal animals.
• As needed, to enable the collection of animal samples in the event of a die-off (or other adverse event), to facilitate prompt investigations of possible causes by Cefas and the Environment Agency.
• To facilitate the community engagement work planned under the Coastal Health programme, through mapping of, and engagement with, regional and local groups of interest in coastal zones, utilising the existing IFCA network to create a nation-wide web of “Coastal Health actors”.
• To work with Cefas and Kent and Essex IFCA to scope and pilot a nation-wide community engagement project based on the findings of the “Changing Seas” project. (TBC and further discussions to be held on this)
• Provide a dedicated officer as liaison and communications lead (0.5 FTE) for the programme. The role will engage with coasta...
> [Read full procurement scope and specification on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cefas25-74-contract-for-coastal-health-programme-association-of-ifca-s-ocds-h6vhtk-05d9d9)

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 90700000

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **The Association of Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-165635`
  - Value: £67,400 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** CEFAS25-74 – Contract for Coastal Health Programme – Association of IFCA’s (active)
  - Signed Value: £67,400
  - Signed Date: 03/11/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F070820-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-11-04T12:52:14.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T09:48:49.843Z
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