Agri-Food and Biosciences InstitutePublic Procurement Organisation: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Central government·Northern Ireland·Belfast
Official UK PPONPBLN-5294-NVHZ
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 15 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
13 awarded tenders, 15 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Open notices
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| AFBI - Supply and Delivery of Transmissibile Spongiform Encephalopathy Rapid Test Kits | 23 Nov 2026 | 28d | £600,000 |
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
38 Laboratory, optical and precision9 procedures · 64%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental4 procedures · 29%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals3 procedures · 21% · 1 open03 Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry2 procedures · 14%32 Radio, television, communication2 procedures · 14%34 Transport equipment and products2 procedures · 14%35 Security, fire-fighting, police2 procedures · 14%42 Industrial machinery2 procedures · 14%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 14 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Contract100%(14 notices)
14 of 14 notices are Contract (100%).
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
Open79%(11 notices)
11 of 14 notices are Open (79%).Selective14%(2 notices)
2 of 14 notices are Selective (14%).Direct award7%(1 notices)
1 of 14 notices are Direct award (7%).
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 15 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 12 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 14 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 12 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| Li-Cor Biosciences Uk Ltd | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 2 | 17 Feb 2026 |
| R. Kennedy & Co. (NI) Limited | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 2 | 11 Dec 2025 |
| Aurora Health Physics Services Ltd | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | 6 Oct 2026 |
| IDEAGEN PLC | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | 1 May 2025 |
| Ideagen Gael Ltd | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | 1 May 2025 |
| RS Aqua Ltd | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | 26 Jan 2026 |
| AB Sciex UK Limited | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | 5 Feb 2026 |
| STEPHEN W MOORE LIMITED | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | 11 Dec 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 23% of 13 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 15 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
16 of 16 contracts carry an end date · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| ID 6612871 - DAERA - AFBI - Comprehensive Radiological Monitoring Survey for Radionuclide Decommissioning Project | Aurora Health Physics Services Ltd | 22 Apr 2027 | £322,900 |
| ID 6235074 - AFBI - Supply, Delivery and Servicing of Discrete Analyser | Thermo Electron Manufacturing Ltd t/a Thermo Fisher Scientific | 30 Apr 2027 | £129,943 |
| ID 6219059 - AFBI - RIVER MONITORING EQUIPMENT | LAB & PROCESS INSTRUMENTATION LTD | 31 Mar 2028 | £404,057 |
Recent procedures
Latest 18 of 14 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 16 of 16 published contracts have an end date; 0 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.