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Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs is a UK public-sector contracting authority. This profile aggregates its public-record procurement — top suppliers, categories, recent awards, open tenders and expiring contracts.

Data period: 2023-11-08 to 2026-11-08Updated 2026-11-08

£3.0bn

Total spend

867

Contract awards

459

Unique suppliers

£3.8M

Avg contract

According to ENKII, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has awarded 867 contracts worth £3.0bn to 459 suppliers between 2023-11-08 and 2026-11-08, at an average contract value of £3.8M, with the top five suppliers holding 54% of contract value.

Top suppliers

Top suppliers to Department for Environment, Food & Rural…

Top-five suppliers hold 54% of contract value — a concentrated market.

SupplierAwardsTotal value
Laing O'Rourke Delivery Limited2£919.0M
Phoenix Software2£169.2M
Atos IT Services UK Ltd1£150.6M
i101£150.0M
Kainos Software Limited1£150.0M
Clarity Travel Limited1£100.0M
Corporate Travel Management (Redfern)1£100.0M
Capgemini UK Plc7£78.3M
Equal Experts UK Ltd1£74.0M
Ernst & Young LLP1£60.0M
Mace Consult Limited1£55.3M
Hitachi Solutions Europe Limited1£54.5M
TPXimpact Ltd4£45.5M
Vodafone UK Ltd3£42.8M
WSP UK LIMITED11£41.0M
Farmcare Solutions Ltd2£30.3M
ABACO(UK) LIMITED1£27.0M
UBDS IT Consulting Limited1£27.0M
Calder Conferences2£25.3M
MERRICK and COMPANY UK LIMITED2£25.3M

Procurement categories

What Department for Environment, Food & Rural… buys

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) breakdown of contracts awarded over the reporting period.

Research and development services and related consultancy services

73
301 awards£54.3M

IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

72
144 awards£1.2bn

Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

79
107 awards£560.2M

Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

71
91 awards£621.1M

Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services

90
63 awards£53.0M

Education and training services

80
19 awards£3.6M

Construction work

45
18 awards£19.7M

Software package and information systems

48
18 awards£11.0M

Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services

77
18 awards£31.4M

Other community, social and personal services

98
15 awards£1.6M

Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products

33
9 awards£5.3M

Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

38
8 awards£294K

Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products

39
6 awards£2.8M

Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment

32
5 awards£8.3M

Financial and insurance services

66
5 awards£752K

Real estate services

70
5 awards£4.8M

Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages

30
4 awards£334K

Administration, defence and social security services

75
4 awards£60.1M

Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment

35
3 awards£10.8M

Industrial machinery

42
3 awards£113K

Postal and telecommunications services

64
3 awards£3.8M

Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products

03
2 awards£1.0M

Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation

34
2 awards£1.1M

Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)

44
2 awards£915K

Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services

55
2 awards£20.4M

Supporting and auxiliary transport services; travel agencies services

63
2 awards£103.0M

Health and social work services

85
2 awards£874K

Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy

09
1 award£3.2M

Mining, basic metals and related products

14
1 award£270K

Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories

18
1 award£0

Chemical products

24
1 award£1.6M

Repair and maintenance services

50
1 award£23.0M

Installation services (except software)

51
1 award£70K

Public utilities

65
1 award£4.0M

Recent contracts

Latest Department for Environment, Food & Rural… contracts awarded

The most recently published award notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.

Contract Award Notice - Design and build replacement of the timber moorings and bollards

CPC Civils Ltd · 2026-11-04

£186K

Contract Award Notice - RThames Locks Collar Straps and Anchor Blocks - Phase 3

CPC Civils Ltd · 2026-11-04

£688K

Barmby Barrage (Goole) Utility Survey

WSP UK Ltd · 2026-11-02

£23K

LinkedIn Contract Renewal

LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company · 2026-11-02

£968K

FHAS Transition and Exit

Finyx Consulting Limited · 2026-11-02

Unlock Value Flow Program

Conflux Digital Ltd · 2026-10-29

£83K

2MS Networking Cable Services 2026

serbus cni ltd · 2026-10-29

£329K

Trees: M&E Scientific Indicators_FY26-30

Liverpool John Moore's University · 2026-10-28

£420K

Contract Award Notice - Repair damaged sections of the coping at Benson lock and repointing brickwork and stone coping in the lock chamber

Stonbury Limited · 2026-10-27

£159K

Space Tool Development: WSP Professional Services

WSP UK Ltd · 2026-10-22

£13K

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Most of it is in R&D, IT services and architecture & engineering.

1

tender open now

Inviting bids today

176

contracts ending in 12 months

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19

planned procurements

Work this buyer has said it intends to tender

3

frameworks running

Routes to sell here without a full tender

79

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Market analysis

Bidding into Department for Environment, Food & Rural… — what to expect

Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.

23%

Awards to SMEs

54%

Top-5 supplier share

38%

Framework call-offs

15

Awards to social enterprises

Around 23% of Department for Environment, Food & Rural…’s classified awards go to small and medium-sized enterprises, and 15 have gone to voluntary, community or social enterprises. Around 38%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 Department for Environment, Food & Rural…

How much does Department for Environment, Food & Rural… spend on procurement?

Department for Environment, Food & Rural… awarded 867 contracts totalling £3.0bn between 2023-11-08 and 2026-11-08, working with 459 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £3.8M.

Who are Department for Environment, Food & Rural…'s top suppliers?

The largest suppliers to Department for Environment, Food & Rural… by total award value are Laing O'Rourke Delivery Limited, Phoenix Software, Atos IT Services UK Ltd. The top five suppliers together hold 54% of contract value.

What does Department for Environment, Food & Rural… buy from suppliers?

Department for Environment, Food & Rural…'s procurement is concentrated in research and development services and related consultancy services, it services: consulting, software development, internet and support, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security, alongside specialist categories. See the full CPV breakdown below.

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Sources & methodology

How this profile is compiled

Analysed by ENKII · Updated 2026-11-08

This profile aggregates public-record procurement data published by the UK Government under the Open Government Licence v3.0. ENKII fetches, deduplicates, and aggregates source records; we don't edit the underlying facts.

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