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UK GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT

Public-sector buyer · United Kingdom

Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute

Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute is a UK public-sector contracting authority. This profile aggregates its public-record procurement — top suppliers, categories, recent awards, open tenders and expiring contracts.

Data period: 2023-09-15 to 2026-09-15Updated 2026-09-15

£47.9M

Total spend

20

Contract awards

14

Unique suppliers

£2.5M

Avg contract

According to ENKII, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute has awarded 20 contracts worth £47.9M to 14 suppliers between 2023-09-15 and 2026-09-15, at an average contract value of £2.5M, with the top five suppliers holding 96% of contract value.

Top suppliers

Top suppliers to Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute

Top-five suppliers hold 96% of contract value — a concentrated market.

SupplierAwardsTotal value
Staffline Recruitment NI Ltd.5£33.2M
The UK Recruitment Co Ltd2£6.8M
HAYS SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LTD1£2.7M
ANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTD1£2.3M
TechWorks Marine Limited1£1.0M
AB SCIEX UK LIMITED1£475K
Lab & Process Instrumentation Ltd1£404K
STEPHEN W MOORE LIMITED1£286K
AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES LDA UK LIMITED2£278K
Ideagen Ltd1£149K
AGRICARBON UK LIMITED1£140K
GAS ANALYSIS SERVICES LIMITED1£110K
R.S. AQUA LIMITED1£81K
Kongsberg Discovery AS1£0

Procurement categories

What Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute buys

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) breakdown of contracts awarded over the reporting period.

Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

79
9 awards£45.0M

Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

38
2 awards£278K

Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services

90
1 award£140K

Recent contracts

Latest Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute contracts awarded

The most recently published award notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.

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

Kongsberg Discovery AS · 2026-07-28

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

GAS ANALYSIS SERVICES LIMITED · 2026-03-04

£110K

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

AB SCIEX UK LIMITED · 2026-02-05

£475K

Lot 1 - Supply, Delivery, Support and Maintenance of 5 Data Buoys and Associated Instruments

TechWorks Marine Limited · 2026-01-26

£1.0M

Lot 2 - Supply, Delivery and Software Support of Seven (7) stand-alone Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen (DO) Loggers

R.S. AQUA LIMITED · 2026-01-26

£81K

ID 6219059 - AFBI - RIVER MONITORING EQUIPMENT

Lab & Process Instrumentation Ltd · 2026-01-21

£404K

ID 6132142 - AFBI - SAFSD - RFE - Supply and delivery of Tractors(s)

STEPHEN W MOORE LIMITED · 2025-12-11

£286K

Lot 6- Financial Administrators and Qualified Accountants

Staffline Recruitment NI Ltd. · 2025-08-07

£4.0M

Lot 9- Recruitment Advertising

ANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTD · 2025-08-07

£2.3M

Lot 1- Health and Safety, Waste Management and Estates Management

Staffline Recruitment NI Ltd. · 2025-08-07

£1.6M

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Market analysis

Bidding into Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute — what to expect

Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.

65%

Awards to SMEs

96%

Top-5 supplier share

0%

Framework call-offs

1

Awards to social enterprises

Around 65% of Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute’s classified awards go to small and medium-sized enterprises, and 1 have gone to voluntary, community or social enterprises.

Frequently asked

Common questions about selling to Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute

How much does Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute spend on procurement?

Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute awarded 20 contracts totalling £47.9M between 2023-09-15 and 2026-09-15, working with 14 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £2.5M.

Who are Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute's top suppliers?

The largest suppliers to Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute by total award value are Staffline Recruitment NI Ltd., The UK Recruitment Co Ltd, HAYS SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LTD. The top five suppliers together hold 96% of contract value.

What does Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute buy from suppliers?

Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute's procurement is concentrated in business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security, laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses), sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services, alongside specialist categories. See the full CPV breakdown below.

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Sources & methodology

How this profile is compiled

Analysed by ENKII · Updated 2026-09-15

This profile aggregates public-record procurement data published by the UK Government under the Open Government Licence v3.0. ENKII fetches, deduplicates, and aggregates source records; we don't edit the underlying facts.

Source portals

  • · Find a Tender (find-tender.service.gov.uk)
  • · Contracts Finder
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Source records remain subject to Open Government Licence v3.0 attribution. ENKII doesn't warrant accuracy beyond the source portals' own publication.

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