Top suppliers
Top suppliers to Food Standards Agency
Top-five suppliers hold 99% of contract value — a concentrated market.
Procurement categories
What Food Standards Agency buys
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) breakdown of contracts awarded over the reporting period.
734885727180793564903050983433Recent contracts
Latest Food Standards Agency contracts awarded
The most recently published award notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.
Chemical Testing for Northern Ireland Lot 3
Umweltbundesamt GmbH Organic analytics · 2026-12-16
£156K
Campaign Partnerships
Freud Communcations · 2026-07-12
Cloud Infrastructure Management
METHODS BUSINESS AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY LIMITED · 2026-06-29
Office Supplies
ACS TECHNOLOGY GROUP LTD · 2026-02-24
Health and Safety Management System
Evotix · 2025-12-09
Frontify Unified design Management
Frontify AG · 2025-09-29
Provision of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in Approved FSA Establishments
Arco Limited · 2025-09-09
Mobile Voice and Data Services II
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY · 2025-09-01
Imported Food Sampling, Analysis and Reporting
Fera Science Limited · 2025-08-04
£450K
Microsoft Azure CSP subscriptions and Licenses
DUPLICATE - Bytes Software Services Ltd · 2025-07-28
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Coding NDNS Consumption data into EFSA’s food classification+description -FoodEx
Deadline: 2026-09-18
£65K
Food and You 2: Waves 13-16
Deadline: 2026-09-25
£1.1M
Source Attribution Studies to Understand Transmission Pathways and AMR Origins
Deadline: 2026-09-28
£750K
Pipeline
Contracts expiring in the next 12 months
When these contracts end, Food Standards Agency typically re-tenders. SMEs preparing bids 3-6 months ahead win disproportionately often.
NFCU COM Solution
Expires: 2027-01-12
sCIENCE rEPORT pUBLISHING
Expires: 2027-01-28
ServiceNow Licenses
Expires: 2027-02-26
Provision of FSA's Snow Licenses
Expires: 2027-03-28
Digital asset management system
Expires: 2027-03-30
C313859 Imported Food Training
Expires: 2027-03-31
£22K
Audit of the display of food hygiene ratings and associated business attitudes survey
Expires: 2027-03-31
£360K
FS430662 Food and You 2 Waves 7 to 14
Expires: 2027-03-31
Collection and delivery of official control samples for NI Foyle
Expires: 2027-03-31
£20K
FS516010-6 National Reference Laboratory for Microbiology
Expires: 2027-03-31
£1.4M
Market analysis
Bidding into Food Standards Agency — what to expect
Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.
26%
Awards to SMEs
99%
Top-5 supplier share
25%
Framework call-offs
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Awards to social enterprises
Around 26% of Food Standards Agency’s classified awards go to small and medium-sized enterprises. Around 25%of awards are call-offs from framework agreements — getting onto the right framework matters as much as the bid itself here.
Frequently asked
Common questions about selling to Food Standards Agency
How much does Food Standards Agency spend on procurement?
Food Standards Agency awarded 115 contracts totalling £303.5M between 2023-09-15 and 2026-09-15, working with 75 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £3.7M.
Who are Food Standards Agency's top suppliers?
The largest suppliers to Food Standards Agency by total award value are Eville & Jones (G.B.) Limited, Hallmark Meat Hygiene Ltd, Fera Science Limited. The top five suppliers together hold 99% of contract value.
What does Food Standards Agency buy from suppliers?
Food Standards Agency's procurement is concentrated in research and development services and related consultancy services, software package and information systems, health and social work services, alongside specialist categories. See the full CPV breakdown below.
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Analysed by ENKII · Updated 2026-09-15
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