Top suppliers
Top suppliers to DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR…
Top-five suppliers hold 59% of contract value — a concentrated market.
Procurement categories
What DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR… buys
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) breakdown of contracts awarded over the reporting period.
45210000
4521000079990000
7999000072220000
7222000032440000
3244000071310000
7131000079410000
7941000072210000
7221000072260000
7226000063510000
6351000090710000
9071000071350000
7135000073110000
7311000009310000
0931000072720000
7272000045230000
4523000090920000
9092000066170000
6617000048210000
4821000038430000
3843000079620000
79620000Recent contracts
Latest DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR… contracts awarded
The most recently published award notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.
Minerva Programme Work Package 7 - FM Asset Data Services & Property Technology
Brickfield Consulting Ltd · 2026-06-12
£995K
NBC Technical Quality Assurance Partner
MERRICK and COMPANY UK LIMITED · 2026-06-10
£18.3M
Water Regulation - Adopting a supervisory approach to the Price Review'
Frontier Economics Ltd · 2026-06-10
£198K
Weybridge Technical Assurance and High Containment Services
MERRICK and COMPANY UK LIMITED · 2026-06-10
£7.0M
The Future Rural Payment Service (FRPS)
Virgoblue Ltd · 2026-06-08
£26K
Further Update of the UK's POPs Multi-Media Emission Inventory 2026-2029
WSP UK Limited · 2026-06-03
£225K
ES RDE 023 - pEPR local authority cost modelling validation
WSP UK Limited · 2026-06-01
£28K
Data Management and UK-AIR
Ricardo-AEA Ltd · 2026-05-28
£661K
Data Management and UK-AIR
Ricardo-AEA Ltd · 2026-05-28
£661K
ES RDE 022 - Ammonia from road traffic - roadside ammonia monitoring
BUREAU VERITAS UK LIMITED · 2026-05-21
£67K
Compliance Reporting
Air Quality Consultants Ltd · 2026-05-19
£236K
DEFRA Sustainability Management System
IBM United Kingdom Limited · 2026-05-15
£550K
ES RDE 031 - Forecasting Avian Influenza in Cattle
The University of Liverpool · 2026-05-15
£83K
Remote Electronic Monitoring
Anchor Lab · 2026-05-14
£150K
HRSD License bridging renewal
Phoenix Software · 2026-05-14
£2.1M
Lot 2 _ tNCEA - National Hydrometry Data Logger
OTT HydroMet · 2026-05-13
£1
Lot 1 _ tNCEA - National Hydrometry Data Logger
UDlive Limited · 2026-05-13
£1
ES RDE 027 - Cost of soil degradation WP3 extension
RSK ADAS LIMITED · 2026-05-12
£106K
Conditions Survey
WSP UK Ltd · 2026-05-08
£45K
ES RDE 029 - Ambient air quality monitoring strategy for industrial clusters
RICARDO-AEA LIMITED · 2026-05-07
£20K
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Nature Security research
Deadline: 2026-07-27
£2.0M
Procurement of (Pan-Defra) Research and Development Evidence Portal
£500K
DEFRA Agency Planning Dashboard - Early Market Engagement
DEFRA Agency Planning Dashboard - Early Market Engagement
Flood Risk Assessment Tool - Request for Information
Procurement of (Pan-Defra) Research and Development Evidence Portal
£500K
Procurement of Pan-Defra Research Engagement Portal
£500K
Flood Risk Assessment Tool - Request for Information
e-Commercial system - procurement and contract management functionality
e-Commercial system - procurement and contract management functionality
Sustainable Healthy Diets and Pathway to Net Zero: Assessing the Role of Dietary Transitions in UK Food System Decarbonisation
£225K
Sustainable Healthy Diets and Pathway to Net Zero: Assessing the Role of Dietary Transitions in UK Food System Decarbonisation
£225K
Witney FAS - River Windrush topographic survey
£49K
Binned Waste Project: Composition and Weight- Market Engagement
Binned Waste Project: Composition and Weight- Market Engagement
Supply of Bluetongue Serotype 3 (BTV-3) Vaccine
£1
Provision of Authorised Pet Quarantine Facilities to Scotland
Noise and Nuisance – Ad-hoc Technical Support
Noise and Nuisance – Ad-hoc Technical Support
£1.5M
Defra Group PAN NEC Contract Management System (CMS)
Pipeline
Contracts expiring in the next 12 months
When these contracts end, DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR… typically re-tenders. SMEs preparing bids 3-6 months ahead win disproportionately often.
RDE859 - Assessing Industrial Noise Inside Dwellings - Part IV - Data Acquisiti
Expires: 2026-06-20
£31K
RDE858 - Assessing Industrial Noise Inside Dwellings - Part IV - Data Analysis
Expires: 2026-06-20
£50K
Incinerator Resilience - Design Services
Expires: 2026-06-28
£172K
Biological Control of Invasive Non-Native Riparian Weeds
Expires: 2026-06-28
£600K
RDE993 - Expansion of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) honey database for authen
Expires: 2026-06-30
£75K
FCP: Basis Peatland Training Module
Expires: 2026-06-30
£20K
Plant Health and Biosecurity Postgraduate Certificates and MScs
Expires: 2026-06-30
£39K
FCP: Landscape Recovery Research Partnership
Expires: 2026-06-30
£93K
Geomatics Servers Managed Service Support
Expires: 2026-06-30
£37K
ODA - Regional Pollution Control Forum in Sub-Saharan Africa
Expires: 2026-06-30
£40K
Prevalence of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) in the environment and the effectiveness of current water treatment processes
Expires: 2026-07-06
RDE855 - A Review of the Comparative Advantages of Certified versus Farm Saved S
Expires: 2026-07-10
£67K
DEFRA Software VAR 2023
Expires: 2026-07-11
£25.0M
National Beef Evaluations Website
Expires: 2026-07-12
£60K
Digital Whiteboard for Defra Collaboration
Expires: 2026-07-16
£231K
YOR - CDF - St Mary's Bridge Construction Phase
Expires: 2026-07-27
£1.6M
FCP: Future Service and ad-hoc ELM Support.
Expires: 2026-07-31
£100K
TEAM2100 Cost Assurance and Management Services
Expires: 2026-07-31
£119K
pEPR Fee Modulation
Expires: 2026-07-31
£204K
Provision of Operation & Management - UK Eutrophication & Acidification Network
Expires: 2026-07-31
£2.0M
NBC Building Control Inspector
Expires: 2026-07-31
£12K
Provision of Operation & Management - UK Eutrophication & Acidification Network
Expires: 2026-07-31
£2.0M
RPA Managed Platform
Expires: 2026-07-31
£10.3M
Defra Special Projects -Property Market & Investment Advisor
Expires: 2026-08-07
£125K
NBC: WEEE Compound Relocation Works
Expires: 2026-08-12
£2.2M
Aurora Transformation Programme - Asset Health Metric
Expires: 2026-08-14
£387K
Audio-Visual Equipment and Associated Services
Expires: 2026-08-22
£3.5M
C20702 - Provision of a Cyber Attack and Breach (CAB) Simulation Platform
Expires: 2026-08-28
£258K
Fencing Services to EA's Thames Lockhouses
Expires: 2026-08-31
Cloud infrastructure engineering and M365 administration support
Expires: 2026-08-31
£18.3M
Applications Hosting Support and Maintenance 2025
Expires: 2026-08-31
£360K
Spatial Data Mart (SDM), and Land Interface Data Mart (LIDM
Expires: 2026-08-31
£184K
Medway Estuary & Swale (MEAS) Enabling Activities.
Expires: 2026-09-04
£792K
Hosting tools for End User Implementation continuation
Expires: 2026-09-04
£182K
Daisy Lower Environment Migration, Oracle support for LDAP Migration
Expires: 2026-09-14
£16K
Daisy Lower Environment Migration, Oracle support for LDAP Migration
Expires: 2026-09-14
£16K
Domain Monitoring and Takedown Service
Expires: 2026-09-24
£126K
National - RtO CSM Services - Direct Award - AECOM - CCS RM6165 Lot 1
Expires: 2026-09-30
£445K
National - RtO CSM Services - Direct Award - Arcadis - CCS RM6165 Lot 1
Expires: 2026-09-30
£196K
NBC Building Control Inspector PR22
Expires: 2026-09-30
£13K
FCP - Strategic Modelling Partner
Expires: 2026-09-30
£320K
NBC Building Control Inspector - PR33
Expires: 2026-09-30
£20K
FCP - Strategic Modelling Partner
Expires: 2026-09-30
£320K
Water Regulation - Adopting a supervisory approach to the Price Review'
Expires: 2026-10-08
£198K
AWS Outbound Apps Transit and Internet Gateway Service
Expires: 2026-10-26
£1.2M
Oracle Primavera Cloud Licences
Expires: 2026-10-29
£7K
RDE1019 - Designing research exploring associations between tranquil spaces and
Expires: 2026-10-30
£98K
Transition and Migration Support
Expires: 2026-10-31
£1.0M
Clean Catch 2 (CC2)
Expires: 2026-10-31
£874K
Insurance Brokerage Services
Expires: 2026-10-31
£19K
Market analysis
Bidding into DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR… — what to expect
Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.
59%
Top-5 supplier share
33d
Avg response window
29d
Median response window
14mo
Avg contract duration
Frequently asked
Common questions about selling to DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR…
How much does DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR… spend on procurement?
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR… awarded 1,408 contracts totalling £3.7bn between 2023-06-17 and 2026-06-17, working with 583 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £2.8M.
Who are DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR…'s top suppliers?
The largest suppliers to DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR… by total award value are Laing O'Rourke Delivery Limited, ISS Mediclean Limited, Wireless Logic Group. The top five suppliers together hold 59% of contract value.
What does DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR… buy from suppliers?
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR…'s procurement is concentrated in 45210000, 79990000, 72220000, alongside specialist categories. See the full CPV breakdown below.
How can my business bid for DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR… contracts?
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What's the typical response window for DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR… tenders?
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR… typically gives suppliers a median of 29 days to respond (average 33 days). Standard contract duration is around 14 months.
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Analysed by ENKII · Updated 2026-06-17
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