# CEFAS22-100: Services for Atlantic Bluefin Tuna tagging programme

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: Defra Network eTendering Portal
- Contract winner: [University of Exeter](/contract-winners/university-of-exeter/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £45,000
- Tender value: £45,000
- Award date: 24 August 2022
- Published: 22 September 2022
- Contract start: 25 August 2022
- Contract end: 31 March 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 4058d0e9-4e5f-4b53-9e1b-bc398c299b94-573713
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-f11097df-ed6c-4443-8306-a0f7eb560d12

## Description

Cefas require services to deliver a project to provide a baseline understanding of Atlantic bluefin tuna \(Thunnus thynnus; ABFT\) in waters of the British Isles\. To continue the pilot programme started in 2018 of tagging with electronic tags to establish some features of their behaviour and migrations such as residence time, use of the water column \(and hence likely prey fields\), emigration timing and, potentially, stock of origin\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/4058d0e9-4e5f-4b53-9e1b-bc398c299b94-573713)