Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
GOV.UK register: Ministerial department·Central government·Greater London·London·Ran 130 procurements for other authorities
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operation and Management of the Toxic Organic Micro Pollutants (TOMPs) Monitoring Network | 5 Oct 2026 | 5d | £0 |
| Caversham Lakes Boat Hoist | 6 Oct 2026 | 6d | £2,372,500 |
| Pan-Defra Research and Development Evidence Portal | 7 Oct 2026 | 7d | £500,000 |
| Ground Care, Agricultural and Plant Equipment for Defra Group Fleet Services | 22 Oct 2026 | 22d | £69,876,145 |
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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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
73 Research and development services17 procedures · 8%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet14 procedures · 6% · 1 open90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental13 procedures · 6%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting12 procedures · 5%71 Architectural, construction, engineering7 procedures · 3%50 Repair and maintenance services5 procedures · 2%45 Construction work4 procedures · 2%38 Laboratory, optical and precision3 procedures · 1%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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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
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Who wins herei
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.
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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
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| WSP UK Limited | 7 | 4% | 7 | 7 | 27 Aug 2026 |
| OceanWise Ltd | 5 | 2.9% | 5 | 6 | 20 Aug 2026 |
| Air Quality Consultants Ltd | 5 | 2.9% | 5 | 5 | 7 Sept 2026 |
| Fera Science Ltd | 5 | 2.9% | 5 | 5 | 21 Sept 2026 |
| Ricardo AEA Ltd | 5 | 2.9% | 5 | 5 | 25 Jun 2026 |
| RSK ADAS Limited | 5 | 2.9% | 5 | 5 | 19 Aug 2026 |
| University of Exeter | 4 | 2.3% | 4 | 5 | 4 Nov 2025 |
| UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY | 4 | 2.3% | 4 | 4 | 23 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.
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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.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe 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. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Application, Development and Maintenance Services (ADMS) for Trade Application Estate | Capgemini | 15 Sept 2026 | 2.5 yrs | £33,700,000 ≈ £13m/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 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 Services | MERRICK and COMPANY UK LIMITED | — | — | £7,000,000 † |
Contracts endingi
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.
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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
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| FCP: Strategic Modelling Partner | Gutteridge, Haskins and Davey Limited | 30 Sept 2026 | £400,000 |
| Independent Strategic Review Services | Chiltern House Capital Limited | 30 Sept 2026 | £21,600 |
| PR21 - B265 Suite C Specialist Equipment | Tecniplast UK Limited | 30 Sept 2026 | £51,010 |
| DDTS Executive Board Primary Colours Development Programme | Edgecumbe Consulting Group Ltd | 2 Oct 2026 | £12,599 |
| Water Regulation - Adopting a supervisory approach to the Price Review' | Frontier Economics | 8 Oct 2026 | £198,156 |
| ES RDE 096 - Statistical Advice for Improving Marine Monitoring and Classificat | HiDef Aerial Surveying | 15 Oct 2026 | £12,612 |
| DSA Commercial Support Service | Investigo Limited | 16 Oct 2026 | £89,408 |
| SIO Commercial Support Service | Investigo Limited | 16 Oct 2026 | £90,830 |
| Land Cover Plus Crops License 25 - 26 | UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY | 14 Nov 2026 | £32,500 |
| ES RDE 048 - Operational Cost Modelling for Canker Stain of Plane Outbreaks in the UK | Fera Science Ltd | 27 Nov 2026 | £40,313 |
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
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.
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