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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: 2023-11-08 to 2026-11-08Updated 2026-11-08

£48.7M

Total spend

22

Contract awards

16

Unique suppliers

£2.2M

Avg contract

According to ENKII, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute has awarded 22 contracts worth £48.7M to 16 suppliers between 2023-11-08 and 2026-11-08, at an average contract value of £2.2M, with the top five suppliers holding 94% of contract value.

Top suppliers

Top suppliers to Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute

Top-five suppliers hold 94% 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 LIMITED1£404K
Lab & Process Instrumentation Ltd1£404K
Stephen W Moore Limited1£286K
AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES LDA UK LIMITED2£278K
Kongsberg Discovery AS1£216K
Ideagen Limited1£149K
Ideagen Ltd1£149K
AGRICARBON UK LIMITED1£140K
GAS ANALYSIS SERVICES LIMITED1£110K
R.S. AQUA LIMITED1£81K

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
5 awards£1.1M

Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products

03
3 awards£889K

IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

72
2 awards£298K

Agricultural machinery

16
1 award£286K

Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation

34
1 award£1.0M

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 · 2026-07-07

£216K

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

GAS ANALYSIS SERVICES LIMITED · 2026-03-18

£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 · 2026-02-18

£475K

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

R.S. AQUA LIMITED · 2026-02-05

£81K

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

TechWorks Marine Limited · 2026-02-05

£1.0M

ID 6219059 - AFBI - RIVER MONITORING EQUIPMENT

LAB & PROCESS INSTRUMENTATION LIMITED · 2026-02-03

£404K

ID 6219059 - AFBI - RIVER MONITORING EQUIPMENT

Lab & Process Instrumentation Ltd · 2026-01-21

£404K

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

Stephen W Moore Limited · 2025-12-23

£286K

Lot 7- Industrial staff

The UK Recruitment Co Ltd · 2025-08-07

£2.0M

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.

63%

Awards to SMEs

94%

Top-5 supplier share

0%

Framework call-offs

1

Awards to social enterprises

Around 63% 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 22 contracts totalling £48.7M between 2023-11-08 and 2026-11-08, working with 16 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £2.2M.

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 94% 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), agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products, alongside specialist categories. See the full CPV breakdown below.

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Sources & methodology

How this profile is compiled

Analysed by ENKII · Updated 2026-11-08

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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