Cefas: tenders, sectors & how to win their contracts

Cefas has published 17 tenders in United Kingdom.

Its buying spans 5 CPV divisions, most often laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses).

Across 9 awarded contracts the median value is £400k.

Its published awards total £3.4m.

How to win their contracts

Measured from Cefas's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

Plan for about 30 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 7 of their tenders.
They publish about 0.7 tenders a month, measured over 24 months of history.
Half of their 9 awarded contracts are worth £400k or less — size your bid to that range.
Most of their buying falls in laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses), research and development services and related consultancy services, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.
Their most frequent suppliers are Blue Abacus Ltd (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.

Tender	Winner	Tender closed	Contract Value
CEFAS22-53 Contract for provision of a chemical imaging and ...	Agilent Technologies LDA UK Limited	2 December 2022	£167.5k
CEFAS22-25 OWEC Poseidon (Lot 1 - North Sea, Lot 2 - Irish S...	Ocean Ecology	21 July 2022	£673.3k
CEFAS22-11 Next Generation Sequencing (NGS Framework)	The University of Exeter	17 June 2022	£4,000
CEFAS21-138 ITT (OCPP) 2x micro-FTIRs for Belize	Bruker UK Ltd	7 February 2022	£186k
CEFAS21-144 ITT HR-GC-MS	LECO Instruments UK	31 January 2022	£280k
CEFAS21-64 Creative Services Framework	400 Communications	8 November 2021	£400k