Official UK procurement notice
Neurodiversity in the farming community - Farmers Weekly's
Authority: DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS (Central government)
Sectors: Cleaning & Environmental Services (90) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Awarded value£15,000published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 8 Apr 2025no call for competition
Awarded to MA Agriculture Limited2 awards
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDefra is seeking access to a high-quality survey on neurodiversity in the farming sector. A comms partnership with the most widely read weekly Farming Magazine (the Farmers Weekly) would give Defra the opportunity to set out how Defra is working to improve the accessibility of its service to farmers. Data and information collected would also give Defra future insight and enable better future direction planning.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - without competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 15 Aug 2025, 12:15 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Nov 2025, 11:24 GMT
- Authority reference
C30477- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-071947- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0588d5Find a Tender
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 15 Aug 2025- Contract details notice published15 Aug 2025, 12:15 BSTUK7
- Contract details notice published7 Nov 2025, 11:24 GMTUK7
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecastAwards 2
Awarded value £15,0001 contract exc. VAT · 1 repeated publication of the same award counted once
Contracts signed 2latest 8 Apr 2025
| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| MA Agriculture Limited | £15,000 †same award published again · counted once | — | Awarded |
| MA Agriculture LimitedVCSE | £15,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Neurodiversity in the farming community - Farmers Weekly · MA Agriculture Limited
- Signed
- 8 Apr 2025
- Value
- £15,000
- Period
- 9 Apr 2025 – 30 Nov 2025
- Status
- active
Contract 2 · MA Agriculture LimitedVCSE
- Signed
- 8 Apr 2025
- Value
- £15,000
- Period
- 9 Apr 2025 – 30 Nov 2025
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
2 commercial parties on the notice- MA Agriculture LimitedAwarded supplier
- MA Agriculture LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender