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Public-sector buyer · United Kingdom

DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND 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: 2023-07-31 to 2026-07-31Updated 2026-07-31

£3.2bn

Total spend

1,369

Contract awards

570

Unique suppliers

£2.5M

Avg contract

According to ENKII, DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS has awarded 1,369 contracts worth £3.2bn to 570 suppliers between 2023-07-31 and 2026-07-31, at an average contract value of £2.5M, with the top five suppliers holding 49% of contract value.

Top suppliers

Top suppliers to DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR…

Top-five suppliers hold 49% of contract value — a concentrated market.

SupplierAwardsTotal value
Laing O'Rourke Delivery Limited2£919.0M
Wireless Logic Group2£210.1M
Atos IT Services UK Ltd4£159.4M
i101£150.0M
Kainos Software Limited1£150.0M
Equal Experts UK Ltd1£111.0M
Corporate Travel Management (Redfern)1£100.0M
Capgemini UK Plc10£84.3M
ICF Consulting Services Limited26£75.7M
Ernst & Young LLP2£60.2M
Hitachi Solutions Europe Limited1£54.5M
TPXimpact Ltd6£47.5M
EDF Energy5£44.0M
Vodafone UK Ltd3£42.8M
UK Power Networks Ltd2£40.9M
Noise Consultants Limited (NCL)3£36.0M
UBDS IT Consulting Limited2£31.6M
Farmcare Solutions Ltd2£30.3M
Calder Conferences3£30.2M
Bureau Veritas UK Limited9£29.1M

Procurement categories

What DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR… buys

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

Building construction work

45210000
17 awards£934.8M

Software-related services

72260000
51 awards£409.5M

Systems and technical consultancy services

72220000
79 awards£388.5M

Telemetry and terminal equipment

32440000
2 awards£210.7M

Consultative engineering and construction services

71310000
172 awards£170.4M

Business and management consultancy services

79410000
70 awards£166.5M

Programming services of packaged software products

72210000
19 awards£147.9M

Travel agency and similar services

63510000
2 awards£103.0M

Environmental management

90710000
128 awards£56.0M

Engineering-related scientific and technical services

71350000
47 awards£54.5M

Research services

73110000
233 awards£43.5M

Electricity

09310000
3 awards£43.1M

Wide area network services

72720000
1 award£42.6M

Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork

45230000
11 awards£42.1M

Facility related sanitation services

90920000
3 awards£30.3M

Financial consultancy, financial transaction processing and clearing-house services

66170000
11 awards£29.0M

Networking software package

48210000
10 awards£26.6M

Detection and analysis apparatus

38430000
14 awards£25.3M

Supply services of personnel including temporary staff

79620000
15 awards£23.6M

Pollution tracking and monitoring and rehabilitation

90730000
34 awards£20.6M

Recent contracts

Latest DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR… contracts awarded

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

Ozone Monitoring with University of Manchester (UoM)

The University of Manchester · 2026-07-28

£280K

Contract Award Notice -MEICA BiS Atkins

AtkinsRéalis PPS Limited · 2026-07-23

£44K

PR21 - B265 Suite C Specialist Equipment

Tecniplast UK Limited · 2026-07-21

£51K

pEPR Recycling Locator Service 2

Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) · 2026-07-20

£47K

Wallingford Strategic Property Review

WSP UK Ltd · 2026-07-16

£36K

Contract Award Notice - THMS - AOMR - Incidence Response Contract Lot 3

Nurture Landscapes Ltd · 2026-07-16

£350K

GREAT Food and Drink - B2B industry engagement support

Future of Food · 2026-07-13

£135K

Ozone Monitoring with University of Manchester (UoM)

University of Manchester · 2026-07-13

£280K

GREAT Food and Drink - B2B industry engagement support

Future of Food · 2026-07-13

£135K

GREAT Food and Drink - B2B industry engagement support

Future of Food · 2026-07-13

£135K

Ozone Monitoring with University of Reading (UoR)

University of Reading · 2026-07-10

£28K

'Water Regulation - Adopting a supervisory approach to the Price Review'

Frontier Economics Ltd · 2026-07-09

£198K

Minerva Programme Work Package 7 - FM Asset Data Services & Property Technology

Brickfield Consulting Ltd · 2026-07-09

£995K

Media Buying Services Call Off Agreement

WPP 650 · 2026-06-26

£4.4M

Remote Electronic Monitoring

Anchor Lab · 2026-06-26

£150K

Remote Electronic Monitoring (REM) 2025

Anchor Lab · 2026-06-26

£150K

Application Development, Maintenance and Support (ADMS) Plus - Kainos

Kainos Software Limited · 2026-06-23

£150.0M

Application Development, Maintenance and Support (ADMS) Plus - i10

i10 · 2026-06-23

£150.0M

ES RDE 011 - Management and Publication of the Pollutant Release and Transfer R

Ricardo-AEA Ltd · 2026-06-22

£105K

ES RDE 040 - Brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) surveillance in the

NIAB · 2026-06-21

£20K

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Pan-Defra Research and Development Evidence Portal

Deadline: 2026-07-31

£500K

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)

ENCOURAGING BEST PRACTICE IN THE FOOD PROCUREMENT SUPPLY CHAINS OF EDUCATION

ENCOURAGING BEST PRACTICE IN THE FOOD PROCUREMENT SUPPLY CHAINS OF EDUCATION

£5.0M

Equine anthelmintic resistance: Anthelmintic efficacy in Parascaris spp. (ascarids) populations in foals and youngstock and existing management strategies on UK stud farms.

Equine anthelmintic resistance: Anthelmintic efficacy in Parascaris spp. (ascarids) populations in foals and youngstock and existing management strategies on UK stud farms.

Equine anthelmintic resistance: Anthelmintic efficacy in Parascaris spp. (ascarids) populations in foals and youngstock and existing management strategies on UK stud farms.

UK Hydrocarbons Monitoring Network 2024

UK Hydrocarbons Monitoring Network 2024

Defra's PAN NEC Contract Management System (CMS)

Research project to develop and pilot approaches to surveillance for antibiotic resistance in companion animals and equines in the UK

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.

TEAM2100 Cost Assurance and Management Services

Expires: 2026-07-31

£119K

RPA Managed Platform

Expires: 2026-07-31

£10.3M

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

pEPR Fee Modulation

Expires: 2026-07-31

£204K

FCP: Future Service and ad-hoc ELM Support.

Expires: 2026-07-31

£100K

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

Applications Hosting Support and Maintenance 2025

Expires: 2026-08-31

£360K

Fencing Services to EA's Thames Lockhouses

Expires: 2026-08-31

Cloud infrastructure engineering and M365 administration support

Expires: 2026-08-31

£18.3M

Spatial Data Mart (SDM), and Land Interface Data Mart (LIDM

Expires: 2026-08-31

£184K

Contract Award Notice -MEICA BiS Atkins

Expires: 2026-09-01

£44K

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

FCP - Strategic Modelling Partner

Expires: 2026-09-30

£320K

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

National - RtO CSM Services - Direct Award - AECOM - CCS RM6165 Lot 1

Expires: 2026-09-30

£445K

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

Clean Catch 2 (CC2)

Expires: 2026-10-31

£874K

Insurance Brokerage Services

Expires: 2026-10-31

£19K

Award notice - China Britain Business Council launchpad

Expires: 2026-10-31

£334K

Transition and Migration Support

Expires: 2026-10-31

£1.0M

YNE - CDF - Hebble Brook - Lot 1 Design Support

Expires: 2026-11-13

£63K

Accessibility Audit

Expires: 2026-11-16

£200K

Stock image / video provision

Expires: 2026-11-29

£21K

APHA Service contract for FEI tecnai TSpirit D1228 TEM

Expires: 2026-11-30

£67K

NBC Programme and Weybridge site Legal Services

Expires: 2026-11-30

£657K

Qlik Software

Expires: 2026-11-30

£1.6M

Supply of Bruker Laboratory Consumables to APHA

Expires: 2026-11-30

£30K

NBC Programme and Weybridge site Legal Services

Expires: 2026-11-30

£685K

NBC Programme and Weybridge site Legal Services

Expires: 2026-11-30

£685K

Human Resources Applicant Tracking Solution

Expires: 2026-12-01

£105K

Application Development Services for Fish Export Service

Expires: 2026-12-08

£9.8M

SCAH Specialist Advisory Services

Expires: 2026-12-31

£1.6M

The River Roding Project

Expires: 2027-01-19

£11.6M

Broadband Services

Expires: 2027-01-25

£36K

Market analysis

Bidding into DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR… — what to expect

Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.

49%

Top-5 supplier share

29d

Avg response window

28d

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 1,369 contracts totalling £3.2bn between 2023-07-31 and 2026-07-31, working with 570 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £2.5M.

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, Wireless Logic Group, Atos IT Services UK Ltd. The top five suppliers together hold 49% 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 building construction work, software-related services, systems and technical consultancy services, 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 28 days to respond (average 29 days). Standard contract duration is around 14 months.

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Sources & methodology

How this profile is compiled

Analysed by ENKII · Updated 2026-07-31

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.

Source portals

  • · Find a Tender (find-tender.service.gov.uk)
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Source records remain subject to Open Government Licence v3.0 attribution. ENKII doesn't warrant accuracy beyond the source portals' own publication.

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