Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

Contract awards

• CEFAS26-153 Servicing Contract for Sequencers

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 20 Jan, 203039 monthsValue £149.90kSource Find a Tender

  3 year service contract for maintenance and repair of Illumina sequencing machines.

  Awarded to ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE LIMITED

• CEFAS26-06 Contract for an inspection-class Remotely Operated Vehicle with fibre-optic capability for seabed imagery research

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £120.00kSource Find a Tender

  Cefas requires one complete, fibre-optic-capable, inspection-class ROV system, depth rated to 300m, built on open-source or open-architecture hardware and software. The system will be operated from Research Vessel Cefas Endeavour and will: • Collect high-definition, quantitative video and imagery of the seabed, includi

  Awarded to JM Robotics AS

• Sea Angling for Cephalopods and Descending devices for pollack

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £55.00kSource Find a Tender

  Cefas requires research to characterise the recreational fishery for Cephalopods and develop practical approaches with charter boats for the use of descending devices for pollack.

  Awarded to Angling Trust Limited

• CEFAS26-131 Marine Organism Wash-Up Research

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £21.93kSource Find a Tender

  Research services to support the Defra-funded Coastal and Marine Health Programme (CaMHP), focusing on the wash-up of marine organisms around the UK coast. The work will identify potential candidate species and groups, develop an accessible fact-sheet template, and research and produce fact sheets covering a range of m

  Awarded to Agilent Technologies LDA UK

• Research on Marine Wash Ups -UK

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £49.13kSource Find a Tender

  To provide desk-based research into previous wash ups of marine organisms on beaches around the United Kingdom to provide an improved understanding and collated information on species or groups of species that are reported to wash up on UK shores.

  Awarded to University of Portsmouth

• CEFAS26-104 Purchase of Waverider Buoys and Associated Components

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 202817 monthsValue £102.95kSource Find a Tender

  Purchase of Datawell Mark III Waverider buoys and associated components for the Cefas Wavenet project. The buoys will supplement and progressively replace ageing or lost equipment within the existing Waverider stock, helping maintain continuous wave monitoring and data collection across Cefas-operated sites.

  Awarded to RS Aqua Ltd

• CEFAS25-23 Lab Information Management System

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Jul, 20279 monthsValue £92.85kSource Contracts Finder

  Assistance up to and including 15 days, with the implementation of the LabWare Laboratory Process Management configuration for NGS processing

  Awarded to Labware Limited (Cefas DA)

• CEFAS26-102 Smart Sea Fish Tagging Measurement Boxes

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractPublished 29 Oct, 2026Value £21.72kSource Find a Tender

  Rental, maintenance and technical support services for three Smart Sea fish tagging measurement boxes and associated tagging software for use during Cefas mackerel tagging surveys. The service includes equipment maintenance, inspection and replacement of parts where required, firmware updates, preparation of the taggin

  Awarded to Smart Sea Systems AS

• CEFAS26-76 Interior Plant Display Rental Services

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 1 Sept, 202710 monthsValue £24.24kSource Find a Tender

  Provision of rental services for 108 interior plant displays for use within Cefas premises.

  Awarded to Planteria Group (UK) Ltd

• CEFAS26-85 Contract for provision of Water and Sediment Sampling Analysis for HPC

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 27 Oct, 202712 monthsValue £340.00kSource Find a Tender

  The BEEMS (British EDF Energy Estuarine and Marine Studies) programme is funded by NNB Generation Company (HPC) Limited. Through this programme, Cefas provide authoritative scientific information on the marine and transitional waters in the vicinity of potential new build nuclear power stations and require the Supplier

  Awarded to Briggs Marine Contractors Ltd

• CEFAS26-109 RFQ for Sediment Coring Survey Services aboard RV Cefas Endeavour

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Dec, 202657 daysValue £69.15kSource Find a Tender

  Cefas requires the provision of specialist marine geotechnical services to support two vibracoring surveys within the Irish Sea Firth of Clyde or North Sea. The Supplier is required to achieve sediment cores each with a target penetration of up to 3 m from pre-planned stations for the delivery of our environmental samp

  Awarded to Geoforce Technical Services

• CEFAS26-90 Research on Marine Wash-ups UK

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £49.13kSource Contracts Finder

  This is to provide desk-based research into previous wash ups of marine organisms on beaches around the United Kingdom to provide an improved understanding and collated information on species or groups of species that are reported to wash up on UK shores as part of the Coastal and marine health programme.

  Awarded to University of Portsmouth

• CEFAS26-81 HPLC and ASPEC instrument servicing contract

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 May, 202931 monthsValue £96.63kSource Find a Tender

  3 year service contract for support of shellfish toxin FLD & DAD - HPLC instruments & Gilson ASPEC systems.

  Awarded to Mason Science Limited

• CEFAS26-92 AIS Vessel Tracking Data Subscription

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £25.00kSource Find a Tender

  Automatic Identification System (AIS) vessel tracking data for one year reporting, covering waters between 29°N-90°N and 42°W-13°E. The dataset supports Cefas' production of validated underwater noise pollution maps for UK waters, which contribute to Defra's UK Marine Strategy and OSPAR reporting requirements. Continue

  Awarded to Kpler Limited

• CEFAS26-97 Annual service cover for LC-MS equipment

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Jul, 20279 monthsValue £32.74kSource Find a Tender

  12 months of Agilent CrossLab Silver service for the Agilent 1290 Infinity II UPLC and the 6495B iFunnel triple quadrupole (QQQ) LC-MS system at Cefas Weymouth. The cover keeps the instruments maintained and supported, which reduces the risk of downtime and keeps scientific analysis running reliably throughout the year

  Awarded to Agilent Technologies LDA UK Ltd

• CEFAS26-75 ITT for provision of pelagic trawler vessel for the IESNS survey

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 18 Oct, 202711 monthsValue £1.22mSource Find a Tender

  The Supplier will provide s pelagic trawler, suitably equipped to participate in an acoustic-trawl survey. The survey is part of the international IESNS (International Ecosystem Survey in the Nordic Sea), a collaboration between Icelandic, Faroe, Norwegian, EU and UK research institutes which has been conducted since 1

  Awarded to Sunbeam Fishing Limited

• CEFAS26-107 Contract for Support Services to the Coastal Health Programme

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £135.00kSource Find a Tender

  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: 1. Work with all IFCAs to review, update and test protocols and tools to improve our pr

  Awarded to THE ASSOCIATION OF INSHORE FISHERIES AND CONSERVATION AUTHORITIES LTD

• CEFAS26-128 Toxicology rack with associated RO unit for flow through chemical exposures

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 26 Feb, 202816 monthsValue £52.43kSource Find a Tender

  This equipment will be critical in delivering current and future work that support key government policies on both creating tools for modern toxicology and animal use in science. It is projected to be heavily used over the next decade where NAMs (new approach methodologies) need to be developed and validated. The progr

  Awarded to TECHNIPLAST UK LMITED

• CEFAS26-114 Contract for frame for carousel water sampler frame

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £16.01kSource Find a Tender

  Provision of a bespoke frame for carousel water sampler for Cefas CTD instrument.

  Awarded to Planet Ocean Ltd

• CEFAS26-79 Contract for for Macrofauna Analysis of Sediment Samples

  Location: United Kingdom

  Awarded contractContract ends 27 Feb, 20274 monthsValue £21.00kSource Find a Tender

  Contract for the processing of 33 macrofaunal samples by extracting and identifying all biota retained on a 1.0 mm capture mesh, in accordance with the extraction and identification protocols set out in the NMBAQC guidelines.

  Awarded to Fugro GB Limited