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Agri-Food and Biosciences InstitutePublic Procurement Organisation

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Public sector tenders and awarded contracts from Agri-Food and Biosciences InstitutePublic Procurement Organisation, tracked by Skim across every UK and EU procurement portal.

Live opportunities
1
Awarded contracts
13
Total awarded value
£107,386,160
Country
United Kingdom

Procurement pipeline

14 published notices

Live
17%
Awarded
1393%

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The people who scope, score and sign contracts at Agri-Food and Biosciences InstitutePublic Procurement Organisation — names, roles and how to reach them.

Tenders & awards

Showing 13 of 14 on this page. 1 live and 13 awarded in total.

In deliveryUnited KingdomServices£322,900

ID 6612871 - DAERA - AFBI - Comprehensive Radiological Monitoring Survey for Radionuclide Decommissioning Project

Won by Aurora Health Physics Services Ltd

Awarded 5 October 2026

In deliveryUnited KingdomServices£100,000,000

AFBI Commercialisation of AFBI-bred Forage Grass Varieties

Won by DLF A/S

Awarded 29 July 2026

In deliveryUnited KingdomGoods£2,668,717

Procurement of New Benchtop Genome Sequencer and all consumables and servicing for ten years

Won by Illumina Cambridge Limited

Awarded 8 July 2026

In deliveryUnited KingdomGoods£215,885

ID 6202678 - AFBI – The Supply and Delivery of a Multibeam Echosounder 70923

Won by Kongsberg Discovery AS

Awarded 24 June 2026

In deliveryUnited KingdomGoods£109,675

AFBI - Sustainable Livestock Systems – Supply and delivery of Multi-Gas Analysers

Won by GAS ANALYSIS SERVICES LIMITED

Awarded 4 March 2026

In deliveryUnited KingdomGoods£878,872

AFBI - SAFSD Supply and Delivery of Flux Towers and N2O Equipment

Won by LI-COR Biosciences UK Ltd

Awarded 17 February 2026

In deliveryUnited KingdomGoods£475,000

ID 6121155 - AFBI - CSB - Supply, Delivery and Support of a Liquid-Chromatographic Mass-Spectrometer (LC-MS) with Linear Ion Trap (LIT) Functionality

Won by AB SCIEX UK LIMITED

Awarded 5 February 2026

In deliveryUnited KingdomGoods£129,943

ID 6235074 - AFBI - Supply, Delivery and Servicing of Discrete Analyser

Won by Thermo Electron Manufacturing Ltd

Awarded 27 January 2026

In deliveryUnited KingdomGoods£1,106,959

ID 6221637 - AFBI - Supply, Delivery, Software Support and Warranty of Integrated Freshwater Data Buoys and Monitoring Hardware

Won by R.S. AQUA LIMITED

Awarded 26 January 2026

In deliveryUnited KingdomGoods£404,057

ID 6219059 - AFBI - RIVER MONITORING EQUIPMENT

Won by LAB & PROCESS INSTRUMENTATION LIMITED

Awarded 21 January 2026

In deliveryUnited KingdomGoods£285,572

AFBI - SAFSD - RFE - Supply and delivery of Tractors(s)

Won by Stephen W Moore Limited

Awarded 11 December 2025

In deliveryUnited KingdomGoods£266,000

AFBI - SAFSD - RFE - Supply and delivery of 2x telehandlers (ID 6252205)

Won by R. Kennedy & Co. (NI) Limited

Awarded 11 December 2025

In deliveryUnited KingdomServices£522,580

ID 5422428 - DAERA AFBI - Charter of Fishing Vessels for Fisheries Science Partnership and Commercial Acoustic Pelagic Surveys

Won by ATLANTIC TRAWLERS KILKEEL LIMITED

Awarded 3 June 2025

Procurement profile

What Agri-Food and Biosciences InstitutePublic Procurement Organisation has awarded over the last five years, from 31 award notices.

Awarded value each year

In GBP, from awards with a published value

£44.7m
£1.6m
£46.4m
£3.1m
£106.3m

2022

5

2023

6

2024

3

2025

7

2026*

10

Awards per year under each year. *2026 to date

Key figures

Median contract value
£404,057
Last 3 years
Typical contract length
4 years 2 months
Median, last 3 years
Suppliers used
39
Last 3 years
Awards to SMEs
67%
As declared in notices
Median bids
2
Open and restricted tenders; 32% had one bid

Top suppliers

By awarded value, last 3 years, framework panels excluded

  • DLF A/S£100m

    1 award · 64.4% of value

  • Esri Ireland Ltd£42.1m

    1 award · 27.1% of value

  • Illumina Cambridge Ltd£2.7m

    1 award · 1.7% of value

  • C-LOCK INC.£1.5m

    1 award · 1% of value

  • John Thompson and Sons£1.4m

    1 award · 0.9% of value

  • FANE VALLEY FEEDS LIMITED£1.4m

    1 award · 0.9% of value

  • TechWorks Marine Limited£1m

    1 award · 0.7% of value

  • AB Sciex UK Limited£950k

    1 award · 0.6% of value

What they buy

Awards by CPV division, last 3 years

  • Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)13
  • Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services5
  • Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products4
  • Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services3
  • Installation services (except software)3
  • Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation3

How they buy

Procedure behind each award, last 3 years

  • Open procedure81%
  • Restricted or competitive10%
  • Framework call-off5%
  • Direct award5%

When they award

Awards by calendar month, last 3 years. Busiest: January

Awards by calendar month, last 3 years
January4
February4
March2
April1
May0
June2
July2
August0
September1
October1
November1
December3

Contracts ending in the next 12 months

5 contracts, worth £1,493,993

Soonest first, by recorded end date, not counting extension options

2 more contracts end by November 2027

Incumbent, value and end date for every contract Agri-Food and Biosciences InstitutePublic Procurement Organisation has ending, with an alert when it starts re-procuring.

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