Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

GOV.UK register: Ministerial departmentCentral governmentGreater LondonLondonRan 130 procurements for other authorities

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Open now1next deadline 5 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months165+195% vs prior 12 months (56)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot318% single-bid · 50 bid reports
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 50 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share10%of 173 awarded procedures · 154 suppliers
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.

Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.

173 awarded tenders, 154 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months7133 within 6 months
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published award value, 24m£115mnet · on 170 of 192 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 75%
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

Open notices

1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Operation and Management of the Toxic Organic Micro Pollutants (TOMPs) Monitoring Networkprocuring entity5 Oct 20265d£0
Caversham Lakes Boat Hoistprocuring entity6 Oct 20266d£2,372,500
Pan-Defra Research and Development Evidence Portal7 Oct 20267d£500,000
Ground Care, Agricultural and Plant Equipment for Defra Group Fleet Servicesprocuring entity4 lots22 Oct 202622d£69,876,145

What they buy
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What kind of work is bought here.

Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.

Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Last 24 months · 221 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 98% (216 notices)
  • Framework 2% (5 notices)
Procedure route
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Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

  • Direct award 49% (108 notices)
  • Open 18% (39 notices)
  • Route not published 17% (38 notices)
  • Selective 14% (32 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 2% (4 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 50 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3robust · n=5018% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.

Based on 21 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

39 daysrobust · n=21
Notice amendments
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on 221 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

034 of 221 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.

Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.

Based on 17 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=17

Who wins here
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Which suppliers win the most here.

Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.

All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
WSP UK Limited74%7727 Aug 2026
OceanWise Ltd52.9%5620 Aug 2026
Air Quality Consultants Ltd52.9%557 Sept 2026
Fera Science Ltd52.9%5521 Sept 2026
Ricardo AEA Ltd52.9%5525 Jun 2026
RSK ADAS Limited52.9%5519 Aug 2026
University of Exeter42.3%454 Nov 2025
UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY42.3%4423 Sept 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 10% of 173 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 154 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£115mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 170 of 192 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 75%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£78k middle valuerobust · n=170Middle half £33k–£161k; 21 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
Largest published awards
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The biggest published awards.

Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice.

A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Application, Development and Maintenance Services (ADMS) for Trade Application EstateCapgemini15 Sept 20262.5 yrs£33,700,000
≈ £13m/yr
NBC Technical Quality Assurance PartnerMERRICK and COMPANY UK LIMITED——£18,300,000 †
National Co-ordinator & Delivery Lead for a Badger Vaccination Field ForceFarmcare Solutions Limited—4 yrs · up to 6 yrs£15,158,014 †
≈ £3.8m/yr
Noise modelling system (NMS)Noise Consultants Limited—3 yrs · up to 4 yrs£12,000,000 †
≈ £4.0m/yr
Weybridge Technical Assurance and High Containment ServicesMERRICK and COMPANY UK LIMITED——£7,000,000 †

Contracts ending
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 175 of 187 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 71 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 242 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Provision of Geological Products FrameworkFrameworkprocuring entityGeological consultancy servicesPlanned29 Sept 2026£5,900,000
Defra Group General Courier ServiceAwarded / complete29 Sept 2026—
ADMS for current Trade ApplicationsAwarded / complete29 Sept 2026—
Lower Aire SSSI projectprocuring entityAwarded / complete29 Sept 2026—
Midlands - FRAM lot 9c - Client Support Servicesprocuring entityAwarded / complete28 Sept 2026—
Support on EU Reset portfolio deliveryAwarded / complete28 Sept 2026—
Support on EU Reset portfolio deliveryAwarded / complete28 Sept 2026—
Midlands - FRAM lot 9c - Client Support Servicesprocuring entityAwarded / complete25 Sept 2026—
Collaborative Agreement relating to Nature Recovery Rotherhamprocuring entityAwarded / complete25 Sept 2026—
DDTS Executive Board Primary Colours Development ProgrammeAwarded / complete25 Sept 2026—
Supply of Automatic Nucleic Acid Extractorprocuring entityAwarded / complete24 Sept 2026—
Agri & Multisector LROs & WRM - Regional Group Funding WREprocuring entityAwarded / complete24 Sept 2026—
ES RDE 007 Economic assessment for UK environmental DNA strategyAwarded / complete23 Sept 2026—
Molecular Analysis of Water Primrose (Ludwigia)procuring entityAwarded / complete23 Sept 2026—
River Kennet SSSI - Bracketts Hatches Fish Passprocuring entityAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
MMO - Vessel Monitoring System HubAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
ES RDE 077 - Particle Size Analysis of Centre for Seabed Mapping sediment sampleAwarded / complete21 Sept 2026—
ES RDE 120 - Updating the assignment of MHC and EUNIS classification biotopes tAwarded / complete21 Sept 2026—
ES RDE 137 - Analysis of the Impacts of Yellow-Legged Hornet Presence and ResponAwarded / complete21 Sept 2026—
Certification for Fuel and Appliance Emissions TestingCertification servicesPlanning18 Sept 2026£0

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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 (£994m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 200 award records on 168 procedures (192 to a single canonical supplier, 8 multi-supplier). 128 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
  • Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
  • Contract end dates: 175 of 187 published contracts carry a period end; 71 end within 18 months, 33 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (13 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-132810GB-FTS-16487GB-FTS-178371GB-FTS-38058GB-FTS-54669GB-FTS-60270GB-FTS-69779GB-FTS-69792GB-FTS-7150GB-FTS-73488GB-FTS-93576GB-FTS-9401GB-FTS-95516

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