# Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs: UK public-sector contract awards > A public buyer profile built from sourced government contract award notices. ## Key facts - Awards: 1704 - Known award value: £369,478,357 - Distinct contract winners: 664 - First award: 22 September 2010 - Latest award: 29 September 2026 ## Top contract winners - [RSK ADAS](/contract-winners/rsk-adas/public-sector-contract-awards): 28 awards - [RICARDO AEA](/contract-winners/ricardo-aea/public-sector-contract-awards): 25 awards - [WSP UK](/contract-winners/wsp-uk/public-sector-contract-awards): 24 awards - [ICF Consulting Services](/contract-winners/icf-consulting-services/public-sector-contract-awards): 21 awards - Hall mark: 18 awards ## Contract awards ### [Contract Award Notice - Bell Weir Refurbishment - Cost Manager Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-cd52b921-cf6a-4e73-90d3-bf516bfbf400) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Turner & Townsend Project Management Limited · £47,384 · 10 September 2025 · awarded ### [Applications Hosting Support and Maintenance 2025](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-1613e3d8-29f6-4e1d-a4d3-77bd642b0e67) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Civica UK Limited · £360,274 · 1 September 2025 · awarded ### [FCP: Future Service and ad-hoc ELM Support\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-2d59550f-f370-4d40-9041-435a7e7e01be) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · DLA Piper UK LLP · £99,950 · 27 August 2025 · awarded ### [RDE865 - Research to identify the impacts of implementing the European Union Bat](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-592fea0d-9d6d-4ff4-a1b2-242ee4fe4c00) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Ricardo-AEA Ltd · £109,953 · 28 August 2025 · awarded ### [RDE821 - Methodology to include paludiculture in definition of good agricultural](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5cbeb014-cc22-4899-93c0-de7c99f98a46) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · NIAB · £83,203 · 3 September 2025 · awarded ### [RDE909 - Research to underpin update of Codes of Practice](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-1dbc6e69-a503-4633-b013-a1c3e81b2fd1) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · RSK ADAS Limited · £49,998 · 2 September 2025 · awarded ### [RDE830 - Progressing beyond recycling for a circular economy](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-8df5b212-ab62-4e8b-bf9c-768fb3c7f608) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · ABPmer · £10,642 · 28 August 2025 · awarded ### [RDE884 - Innovation in Soil Mapping & Classification Project - ALC data capture](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f701c222-237d-4687-9b36-715c495c1e6f) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Ricardo-AEA Ltd · £73,746 · 20 August 2025 · awarded ### [Pan-Defra NEC Contract Management System](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-16fe3b3b-5c3b-4c88-bf39-2d1c993603af) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Built Intelligence Ltd · £2,771,486 · 21 August 2025 · awarded ### [Defra Special Projects -Property Market & Investment Advisor](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d95c35f3-f48b-4c56-a86f-f7976b3487a7) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · CBRE Limited · £125,000 · 13 August 2025 · awarded ### [Feasibility Assessment for water body improvement, including Bathing Waters](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d43e79b1-bdbb-4523-ba95-5ae58f8f6bbd) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology \(UKCEH\) · £238,474 · 30 July 2025 · awarded ### [RDE848 - Octopus Outburst Analysis - Common octopus \(Octopus vulgaris\) outbursts](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-fa40e15a-990e-4384-a760-49678ae0b112) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · The Marine Biological Association of the UK · £114,728 · 12 August 2025 · awarded ### [NBC Building Control Inspector](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-8cbc5a21-1d7c-49c7-832b-7587adf937e6) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Salus \(Building Control & Fire Safety Consultants\) Ltd · £12,450 · 25 July 2025 · awarded ### [AI Proof of Concept Services to Support EU Reset](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-96e90f6a-7283-473f-89c5-bf2f200814b7) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Faculty Science Limited · £1,500,000 · 11 August 2025 · awarded ### [Common Platform Customer Identity Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-22c7ef47-064c-43d7-a378-5fd927d13dad) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Sitekit Systems Ltd · £4,912,830 · 11 August 2025 · awarded ### [RDE870 - IPM Resource Management 2025-26](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-30b3febc-5e2c-4729-b12b-f0130c6199f5) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · RSK ADAS Limited · £65,320 · 5 August 2025 · awarded ### [Framework Agreement for The Provision of Management, Collection, Slaughter, Salvage and Disposal of Farmed Livestock for TB Control Purposes \("Reactor Removal"\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-63274ec2-e85a-4001-b534-0c62e6785871) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · UK Farmcare Ltd · £8,000,000 · 1 March 2025 · awarded ### [RDE837 Property Flood Resilience \(PFR\) Evidence Synthesis and Gap Analysis](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-38e19f4e-509f-488e-ba68-21e824bbbac1) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Eunomia Research & Consulting Ltd\. · £103,895 · 5 August 2025 · awarded ### [RDE860 - Insecticide resistance monitoring 25-26](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-9259f1c3-4063-4968-bc78-fb846060d2a5) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · RSK ADAS Limited · £100,000 · 1 August 2025 · awarded ### [RDE871 - Design of a long-term pesticide resistance monitoring scheme 2025-26](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-a6a34581-1e41-4fc3-b9f9-56e3c50252c3) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · RSK ADAS Limited · £71,910 · 29 July 2025 · awarded ### [ILRI Contract](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f2608728-4f06-4623-969d-ed58444f9215) department for environment, food and rural affairs · International Livestock Research Institute \(ILRI\) · £136,000 · 14 July 2025 · awarded ### [Hosting Network Management Services 2025](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-cc65d3bf-788e-401f-89ad-55f79b956620) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Kyndryl UK Ltd · £4,444,377 · 25 July 2025 · awarded ### [Provision of Employee Assistance Program](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-10e026c8-e138-46d8-b24d-1b3ed94a1161) Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs · PAM Wellbeing Ltd · £1,243,080 · 25 July 2025 · awarded ### [RDE826 Reaching Net Zero within a Circular Economy - Phase 2: Broadening our Und](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-1ede3713-40d6-415c-889b-d3ffba69f473) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Ricardo-AEA Ltd · £114,768 · 23 July 2025 · awarded ### [RDE867 Heather and Grass Burning in England - Consultation analysis research](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-3b502954-2521-4224-9109-86e856846a64) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Ipsos · £54,300 · 1 July 2025 · awarded Page 10 of 69; 1704 total records.