buyer
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has published 27 tenders and contracts since 2021, 22 naming a winner.
as a buyer
27 procurement records (27 unique titles), of which 22 have award details , between 17 Mar 2021 and 21 Aug 2026.
top suppliers
| supplier | awards | median |
|---|---|---|
| Aether Ltd | 1 | £104,171 |
| Air Quality Consultants Ltd | 1 | £160,600 |
| boxxe Limited | 1 | £54,404 |
| CGI IT UK Limited | 1 | £90,000 |
| Civica UK Limited | 1 | £310,540 |
| Cranfield University | 1 | £14,184,518 |
| Economics for the Environment Consultancy Ltd | 1 | £197,782 |
| Ecorys UK Limited | 1 | £101,075 |
| EDF Energy | 1 | £1,380,000 |
| ESRI (UK) Limited | 1 | £7,160,000 |
| Four Communications Limited | 1 | £1,250,000 |
| HaskoningDHV UK Ltd | 1 | £174,915 |
what it buys
- IT services 8
- research and development 6
- business and professional services 5
- waste, cleaning and environment 3
- laboratory and precision equipment 2
- architecture and engineering 1
- repair and maintenance 1
- construction work 1
common questions about Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)
How many contracts has Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) published?
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has published 27 procurement notices since 2021, of which 22 name a winning supplier.
Does Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) have any open tenders right now?
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has no tenders open for bids right now.
Who are Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)'s biggest suppliers?
- By number of contracts awarded, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)'s most frequent suppliers are Aether Ltd, Air Quality Consultants Ltd and boxxe Limited.
Which Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) contracts are expiring soon?
- 2 contracts involving Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) have end dates in the next 12 months, the earliest on 30 Oct 2026.
contracts expiring in the next 12 months
Contract end dates as published on the original notice. An end date is not a commitment to re-tender — a contract may be extended, varied or allowed to lapse — but it is the earliest public signal that work may come back to market.
| contract | counterparty | value | ends |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAH Power Upgrades - PR27 Woodham Lane | UK Power Networks Services (Commercial) Limited | £40,911,987 | 30 Oct 2026 |
| The Evaluation of Market Ready agricultural Technology Options (TEMaRTO) | · | £1 | 13 Feb 2027 |
contracts published
every contract published by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) →
as published
This page combines 3 separate records from the source data. Every one is listed below exactly as the publisher filed it, so you can check the grouping yourself.
| name as published | identifier | postcode | records |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) | · | SW1P 3JR | 27 |
| Department for Enviroment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) | · | SW1P 3JR | 0 |
| Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) | · | SW1P 3JR | 0 |
why these were combined
- spelling variant at the same address · enviroment~environment 1
- spelling variant at the same address · environment~enviroment 1
Matching uses organisation identifiers where publishers provide them, falling back to name and address. Records are never combined on address alone, because one shared-service postcode carries 244 different organisations. how this works
where these figures come from
Every figure on this page is derived from notices published by Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The corpus runs from 17 Dec 2014 to 13 Sept 2026 and is refreshed from the publishers' own APIs through the working day.
Records are combined into one organisation on identifiers where publishers provide them — a Companies House number, a GB-PPON supplier id — and on exact normalised name and address where they do not. Never on address alone: one shared-service postcode carries 244 unrelated organisations. The 3 published records behind this page are listed above exactly as filed, so any merge can be checked.
Counts are of contracting processes, not published notices: a tender and its award notice are one contract, and are counted once. Values are medians, never totals, and exclude framework ceilings — a ceiling states a spending limit shared across every supplier on the framework, so adding them together produces a number no one ever spent. sources and coverage · how matching works
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