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CEFAS22-81 Seafood Innovation Fund Call 3 follow-on R&D

R&DCPV 73000000
Value£2,730,266
Awarded7 Nov 2022
Published7 Jun 2023
RegionUK-wide

£2,730,266 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£2.7mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£2.9m

This is a large award for Research & Development — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Seafood Innovation Fund is a UK Government programme.

It is part of the Science and Innovation Pillar of the UK Seafood Fund and aims to support research and development (R&D) activities to secure the future of the seafood industries.

The Seafood Innovation Fund ran a closed competition for applicants successfully awarded Phase 1 feasibility study funding in the Call 3 process.

Applicants were invited to submit follow-on R&D projects up to 18 months long, to further develop their feasibility idea.

This Contract is awarded to 12 suppliers: Hook Marine Ltd - £85,000 KelpCrofters Ltd - £257,156 Mimica Lab Ltd - £257,172 Rare Earth International Ltd trading as Rare Earth Global - £262,525 Recycling Ocean Resources Ltd - £186,500 SAC Commercial Ltd - £328,072 TEC Partnership - £148,588 The Cornish Seaweed Company Ltd - £166,583 Tritonia Scientific Ltd - £311,794 Underwater Contracting Ltd - £184,776 University of Stirling - £293,732 University of the West of Scotland - £247,868

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It is part of the Science

It is part of the Science and Innovation Pillar of the UK Seafood Fund and aims to support research and development (R&D) activities to secure the future of the seafood industries.

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