DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Central government·Greater London·London
Official UK PPONPNBD-3289-CDGXWebsitedefra-family.force.com ↗
Open now4next deadline 5 Oct 2026Notices, last 12 months260+256% vs prior 12 months (73)Typical bids per notice230% single-bid · 40 bid reportsTop-3 supplier share8%of 246 awarded procedures · 240 suppliersContracts ending ≤18 months9034 within 6 monthsPublished award value, 24m£256mnet · on 229 of 272 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 61%
Open notices
4 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operation and Management of the Toxic Organic Micro Pollutants (TOMPs) Monitoring Network | 5 Oct 2026 | 17d | £0 |
| Caversham Lakes Boat Hoist | 6 Oct 2026 | 18d | £2,372,500 |
| Pan-Defra Research and Development Evidence Portal | 7 Oct 2026 | 19d | £500,000 |
| Ground Care, Agricultural and Plant Equipment for Defra Group Fleet Services | 22 Oct 2026 | 34d | £69,876,145 |
What they buy
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental32 procedures · 10% · 2 open73 Research and development services25 procedures · 8%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet18 procedures · 5% · 1 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering15 procedures · 5%45 Construction work13 procedures · 4%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting12 procedures · 4%50 Repair and maintenance services11 procedures · 3% · 1 open38 Laboratory, optical and precision8 procedures · 2%How they buy
Last 24 months · 331 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
Commercial tool
- Contract 94% (312 notices)
- Framework 6% (19 notices)
Procedure route
- Direct award 49% (162 notices)
- Open 25% (84 notices)
- Route not published 15% (49 notices)
- Selective 10% (32 notices)
- Limited / restricted 1% (4 notices)
Typical bids per notice2robust · n=40Median of published bid counts per lot on contested notices · 30% of lots drew a single bid. Direct awards are left out; framework and DPS lots are included.
Deadline → award39 daysrobust · n=21Median days from submission deadline to first award notice.
Notice amendments0Median amendments per notice · 39 of 209 notices amended.
Award vs estimate0.1% below estimaterobust · n=10Median (estimate − award) / estimate on single-supplier GBP pairs per lot, same VAT basis on both sides; vehicles excluded. Negative = awarded above estimate.
Who wins here
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WSP UK Limited | 8 | 3.3% | 8 | 8 | 27 Aug 2026 |
| RSK ADAS Limited | 6 | 2.4% | 6 | 6 | 19 Aug 2026 |
| Ricardo-AEA Ltd | 6 | 2.4% | 6 | 6 | 25 Jun 2026 |
| OceanWise Ltd | 5 | 2% | 5 | 6 | 20 Aug 2026 |
| Air Quality Consultants Ltd | 5 | 2% | 5 | 5 | 7 Sept 2026 |
| UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology | 5 | 2% | 5 | 5 | 16 Sept 2026 |
| APEM Ltd | 4 | 1.6% | 4 | 5 | 18 Aug 2026 |
| Jacobs UK Ltd | 4 | 1.6% | 4 | 5 | 7 Sept 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 8% of 246 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 240 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
Published award value (24m)£256mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 229 of 272 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 61%; a further 5 published a VAT-inclusive amount only (£2.4m inc. VAT, kept apart). Not spend and not a budget: notices sometimes republish a framework total or a mis-scaled figure — the largest rows are listed below so you can check.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)£96k medianrobust · n=229Middle half £43k–£280k; 35 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
| Largest published awards | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Servicing, Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (SIMAR) | PLANTEXPAND LIMITED | 8 May 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £46,943,709 ≈ £16m/yr |
| Plant Servicing, Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (SIMAR) | PLANTEXPAND LIMITED | 8 May 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £46,943,709 ≈ £16m/yr |
| Appt. of a Contract Manufacturing Organisation for Production of DST-F to GMP | Thermo Fisher Scientific Prionic Lelystad B.V. | — | 7 yrs · up to 9 yrs | £27,677,784 † ≈ £4.0m/yr |
| NBC Technical Quality Assurance Partner | MERRICK and COMPANY UK LIMITED | — | — | £18,300,000 † |
| National Co-ordinator & Delivery Lead for a Badger Vaccination Field Force | Farmcare Solutions Ltd | — | 4 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £15,158,014 † ≈ £3.8m/yr |
Contracts ending
Published end dates only · 253 of 265 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 90 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 354 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apprenticeship Learner Management SystemInformation technology services | Planning | 6 Aug 2026 | £300,000 |
| Plant Servicing, Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (SIMAR)Fleet management | Awarded / complete | 5 Aug 2026 | £49,000,000 |
| ES RDE 038 - AQIE Digital - Air Quality Data | Awarded / complete | 4 Aug 2026 | — |
| KSL - FRAM 9C - Eastern Revetment Sloping Wall - ECC PM | Awarded / complete | 3 Aug 2026 | — |
| Agri-Net Zero Workshops | Awarded / complete | 30 Jul 2026 | — |
| Supply of Colormetric Analysers to the Environment AgencyAnalysers | Planning | 29 Jul 2026 | £480,000 |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£1.2bn, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 291 award records on 241 procedures (272 to a single canonical supplier, 17 multi-supplier, 2 with no supplier published). Typical award uses single-supplier VAT-exclusive GBP values below £5bn, excludes framework/DPS ceilings and — as a heuristic for republished framework totals — any amount repeated three or more times inside this authority’s 24-month awards; 175 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 5 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- Bid counts (per lot, contested notices only, PA 2023 final-stage tenders where published), deadline-to-award and amendments come from the nightly buyer analytics row (v8, award-identity grain). Evidence tiers: robust ≥5, moderate 3–4, indicative 1–2.
- Contract end dates: 253 of 265 published contracts carry a period end; 90 end within 18 months, 34 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (8 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PNBD-3289-CDGX