Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£6.5m
12 m spend
£149k
Prior 12 m
+4290%
YoY change
£700k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£734k£1.5m£2.2m£2.9mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

2

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

2

£2.9m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

services48 · £453.0m
goods51 · £23.2m
Unspecified21 · £6.3m

Instrument type

contract120 · £482.5m
Source:Find a Tender: 120

Awarded contracts · 15 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) is the contracting authority.

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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
BH
£100.0mest.
2
WT
1 contract · SME
£75.0mest.
3
SR
£45.0mest.
4
CR
£45.0mest.
5
HS
£45.0mest.
6
AS
1 contract · SME
£45.0mest.
7
EI
1 contract · SME
£35.0mest.
8
RI
1 contract · SME
£25.3mest.
981
···
73 other suppliers
long tail · 54 SMEs
£162.8m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
12 contracts
£495.2m
54%
Agriculture, forestry services
7 contracts
£104.0m
11%
Financial, insurance
1 contract
£100.0m
11%
Support transport services
1 contract
£75.0m
8%
Architecture, engineering
3 contracts
£51.8m
6%
Laboratory, scientific
35 contracts
£38.6m
4%
Software packages, IT
1 contract
£35.0m
4%
Education, training
7 contracts
£16.9m
2%

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

Curated leadership roster

Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.

Modifications · 0 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Total mods
0
Above tolerance
0
Total value
£0
Novations
0

No modifications recorded in the last 90 days.

Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

Coming Q4 2026

FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion

Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.

SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

69%
SME supplier share
target 33%
65
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
81
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

Major UK press & trade publications.

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKN06
Contact
ssdadmin.cpdfinance-ni.gov.uk
Email
SSDAdmin.CPD@finance-ni.gov.uk

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

Accountable officer + board roster

Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.

Resources

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