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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: 2023-06-17 to 2026-06-17Updated 2026-06-17

£3.7bn

Total spend

1,408

Contract awards

583

Unique suppliers

£2.8M

Avg contract

According to ENKII, DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS has awarded 1,408 contracts worth £3.7bn to 583 suppliers between 2023-06-17 and 2026-06-17, at an average contract value of £2.8M, with the top five suppliers holding 59% of contract value.

Top suppliers

Top suppliers to DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR…

Top-five suppliers hold 59% of contract value — a concentrated market.

SupplierAwardsTotal value
Laing O'Rourke Delivery Limited2£919.0M
ISS Mediclean Limited1£770.0M
Wireless Logic Group2£210.1M
Atos IT Services UK Ltd4£159.4M
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 LLP3£60.3M
Hitachi Solutions Europe Limited1£54.5M
TPXimpact Ltd6£47.5M
EDF Energy5£44.0M
Vodafone UK Ltd3£42.8M
UK Power Networks Ltd3£41.2M
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
ABACO(UK) LIMITED1£27.0M

Procurement categories

What DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RUR… buys

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

45210000

45210000
17 awards£934.8M

79990000

79990000
3 awards£770.7M

72220000

72220000
82 awards£388.9M

32440000

32440000
2 awards£210.7M

71310000

71310000
175 awards£170.4M

79410000

79410000
71 awards£167.4M

72210000

72210000
19 awards£147.9M

72260000

72260000
50 awards£109.5M

63510000

63510000
2 awards£103.0M

90710000

90710000
131 awards£56.4M

71350000

71350000
50 awards£55.1M

73110000

73110000
251 awards£44.8M

09310000

09310000
3 awards£43.1M

72720000

72720000
1 awards£42.6M

45230000

45230000
11 awards£42.1M

90920000

90920000
3 awards£30.3M

66170000

66170000
11 awards£29.0M

48210000

48210000
10 awards£26.6M

38430000

38430000
13 awards£25.2M

79620000

79620000
16 awards£23.9M

Recent 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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Sources & methodology

How this profile is compiled

Analysed by ENKII · Updated 2026-06-17

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)
  • · Contracts Finder
  • · Spend Network
Full methodology — calculations, refresh cadence & caveats

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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