Name: Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs procurement activity
Creator: PublicSupply
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Quick answer — Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural AffairsLast refreshed 29 May 2026

At a glance

Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs has awarded £454.3m across 134 suppliers, with 295 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 17% · 110 open notices now · 5 awards in last 90 d (£2.8m) · SME share 80% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals

Top-supplier concentration17%

Modifications · 90 d0

SME spend share80%

Pipeline · open now110

Awards · 90 d5

Supplier?Pipeline Top suppliers Categories boughtWatchdog?Modifications FOIA & transparency SME share

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs is a contracting authority, based in UKN06. Tracks 259 published notices and 190 awards on PublicSupply.

259

Notices published

190

Awards

134

Suppliers engaged

2025

First award on file

Spend profile

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

£20.0m

12 m spend

£0

Prior 12 m

—

YoY change

£750k

Median award

Awards (£m)12m moving avg

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

12

Pipeline notices

›

Open (bidding)

110

Live tenders

›

Awarded (90d)

5

£2.8m

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Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

works17 · £996.0m

services155 · £329.1m

Unspecified41 · £24.5m

goods46 · £8.1m

Instrument type

contract259 · £1.4bn

Source:Find a Tender: 259

Awarded contracts · 295 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs is the contracting authority.

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Title	Supplier	Value	Awarded	Status
DAERA – CAFRE – Lease of 5 Agricultural Tractors and 3 Material Handlers	Cowan Bros. NI Ltd	—	—	active
DAERA – CAFRE – Lease of 5 Agricultural Tractors and 3 Material Handlers	Cowan Bros. NI Ltd	—	—	active
DAERA – CAFRE – Lease of 5 Agricultural Tractors and 3 Material Handlers	William Bell Tractors Ltd	—	—	active
DAERA – CAFRE – Lease of 5 Agricultural Tractors and 3 Material Handlers	William Bell Tractors Ltd	—	—	active
DAERA – CAFRE – Lease of 5 Agricultural Tractors and 3 Material Handlers	Stephen W Moore Limited	—	—	active
DAERA – CAFRE – Lease of 5 Agricultural Tractors and 3 Material Handlers	Northern Lift Trucks(N.I.) Ltd	—	—	active
DAERA – CAFRE – Lease of 5 Agricultural Tractors and 3 Material Handlers	Northern Lift Trucks(N.I.) Ltd	—	—	active
DAERA – CAFRE – Lease of 5 Agricultural Tractors and 3 Material Handlers	Northern Lift Trucks(N.I.) Ltd	—	—	active
DAERA - CAFRE SERVICING, REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY	A.J. Armstrong and Sons Ltd	£250k	29 May 2026	pending
DAERA – Provision of Advertising Campaign Services for CAFRE	Anderson Spratt Group Ltd	£300kest.	—	active

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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1

WT

WORLD TRAVEL CENTRE LTD

1 contract · SME

£75.0mest.

17% of total

—

2

IL

ICBF LIMITED

1 contract · SME

£50.0mest.

11% of total

—

3

GS

G4S SECURE SOLUTIONS UK LTD

4 contracts

£40.0mest.

9% of total

—

4

RR

RiverRidge Recycling Portadown Ltd

3 contracts · SME

£36.0mest.

8% of total

—

5

EI

Esri Ireland Ltd.

1 contract · SME

£35.0mest.

8% of total

—

6

EA

Eville and Jones (GB) Limited

7 contracts · 24 Sept – 23 Feb

£25.7mest.

6% of total

New

7

TF

THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC INC.

1 contract

£24.0mest.

5% of total

—

8

EF

Eastwood Fleet Services Ltd

7 contracts · SME

£12.0mest.

3% of total

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9–134

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126 other suppliers

long tail · 102 SMEs

£153.9m

34% of total

various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works

14 contracts

£949.0m

63%

Agriculture, forestry services

58 contracts

£102.4m

7%

Business, legal, advisory

22 contracts

£98.4m

7%

Other

66 contracts

£88.7m

6%

IT services, software

16 contracts

£87.8m

6%

Support transport services

1 contract

£75.0m

5%

Software packages, IT

8 contracts

£59.5m

4%

Repair & maintenance

45 contracts

£44.7m

3%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul

Aug

Sept

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Construction works

Agriculture, forestry services

Business, legal, advisory

Other

1

8

0

8

0

3

0

IT services, software

Support transport services

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.

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Modifications · 0 in 90 d

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

Total mods

0

Above tolerance

0

Total value

£0

Novations

0

No modifications recorded in the last 90 days.

Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.

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.

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SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

80%

SME supplier share
target 33%

201

SME award rows

0

VCSE award rows

134

Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.

Buyer	Type	12 m spend	Top-supplier %	SME %	Mods · 90 d
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs	self	£24.8bn	14%	24%	12 (3)
Peer A	—	£8.2bn	11%	34%	3 (0)
Peer B	—	£3.2bn	18%	31%	4 (0)
Peer C	—	£1.84bn	9%	42%	0

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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: UKN06
Contact: Collaboration.CPDfinance-ni.gov.uk
Email: ssdadmin.cpd@finance-ni.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.

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