Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£485.8m
12 m spend
£1.1bn
Prior 12 m
-55%
YoY change
£99k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£259m£518m£777m£1036mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

68

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

8

£151.3m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
80 recorded contracts worth £98.8m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

services160 · £2.0bn
Unspecified820 · £1.9bn
works5 · £619.8m
goods9 · £6.9m

Instrument type

contract893 · £4.5bn
call off101 · £19.7m
Source:Contracts Finder: 649Find a Tender: 345

Awarded contracts · 181 live

All contracts with a published award notice where DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS is the contracting authority.

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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
LO
2 contracts · 07 May
£919.0m
2
WS
1 contract · 05 Aug
£192.0m
3
I1
1 contract · 21 May
£150.0m
4
EE
1 contract · 05 Apr
£74.0m
5
CU
3 contracts · 01 Nov06 Feb
£50.5m
6
IU
2 contracts · 31 Jan01 Aug
£47.9m
7
RL
17 contracts · 30 Sept27 May
£43.1mest.
8
WU
19 contracts · 08 Feb03 Jun
£42.4mest.
9460
···
452 other suppliers
long tail · 128 SMEs
£452.9m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

IT services, software
99 contracts
£1.1bn
28%
Construction works
36 contracts
£802.6m
20%
Other
225 contracts
£750.3m
19%
Architecture, engineering
69 contracts
£697.4m
18%
Business, legal, advisory
74 contracts
£434.1m
11%
R&D services
197 contracts
£80.0m
2%
Sewage, waste, environment
43 contracts
£56.1m
1%
Repair & maintenance
4 contracts
£35.1m
1%

Activity heatmap

Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
IT services, software
8
11
0
8
0
2
43
1
0
150
0
Construction works
0
2
0
Other
193
0
2
2
0
0
14
1
0
1
Architecture, engineering
3
1
1
0
0
0
0
Business, legal, advisory
0
0
3
0
1
4
0
R&D services
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

Curated leadership roster

Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.

Modifications · 4 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 4 notices tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

Coming Q4 2026

FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion

Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.

SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

25%
SME supplier share
target 33%
198
SME award rows
3
VCSE award rows
460
Distinct suppliers
7%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
3%
Local suppliers (SW postcodes)
5 of 188 with known office
2%
Value to local suppliers
£33.2m of £1.6bn
41%
Postcode coverage
188 of 460 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the SW postcode area — not trading address, so national firms registered locally count and local branches of elsewhere-registered firms don't. Percentages are of suppliers with a known registered office.
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 25% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

Major UK press & trade publications.

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKI32
Contact
Procurement
Email
network.procurement@defra.gov.uk

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

Accountable officer + board roster

Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.

Resources

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