# 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 ### [Content Cloud 2025](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-023b27f9-1fec-4100-a522-f43454ffa4df) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · PACE-XL Ltd · £141,820 · 23 July 2025 · awarded ### [Understanding the Environmental Impacts & Carbon Reduction - DEM0011224](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-6f624a60-3ab2-4e4f-8aba-6ca31d171574) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · RSK ADAS Limited · £0 · 21 May 2025 · awarded ### [NBC: PR26 - Early Works \(B266 Strip Out\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-26295f19-a104-4db5-bc51-b9d01ce44bdf) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Walter Lilly & Co\. Limited · £229,335 · 11 July 2025 · awarded ### [NBCP Specialist consultancy advisory services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-6f15fc24-7384-473f-9378-4b8ef151deb4) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · The Nichols Group Limited · £2,355,730 · 18 July 2025 · awarded ### [RDE806 Reviewing the opportunities for Earth Observation data sets to inform Def](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-9f57562f-a3c0-4ad4-aa12-a97724abe16f) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · RSK ADAS Limited · £78,237 · 15 July 2025 · awarded ### [ODA Environmental Pollution control in Vietnam and Uganda](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-0915ae0f-35ab-4824-8c64-d7c2e2a860de) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · GLOBAL ALLIANCE ON HEALTH AND POLLUTION · £2,700,000 · 8 July 2025 · awarded ### [Contract Award Notice - SE\_ CDF\_ Eastbourne & Pevensey Coastal Defence \(Phase 1\)- OBC Stage](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-b09d62bc-921e-4584-b9da-6160f7028b45) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Jeremy Benn Associates Limited \(t/a JBA Consulting\) · £2,971,260 · 3 June 2025 · awarded ### [Centralisation of IT Service Management Licenses](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-18679964-c5a2-4e27-964c-2dfe71413a34) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Ultima Business Solutions · £14,881,506 · 9 July 2025 · awarded ### [Soil Bank Pilot Scheme Evidence Research Project - RDE Mini Comp 4\.1](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-650c92ee-a44c-41bb-a3cf-dec24534c3e6) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Eunomia Research & Consulting Ltd\. · £64,273 · 4 June 2025 · awarded ### [Hosting tools for End User Implementation continuation](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-3ee9151b-1b54-4a6a-9e59-114ce5b0ce75) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · The Server Labs Ltd · £91,125 · 7 July 2025 · awarded ### [RDE825 Market Engagement on the use and value of NCEA data outside of government](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-1d579898-381b-4f4a-b974-5741557a716e) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Eunomia Research & Consulting Ltd\. · £70,921 · 3 July 2025 · awarded ### [FCP - social design, anthropology and community-led transformation](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-bb46a53f-85a2-45be-ac53-289767a4032e) DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS · Hilary Cottam · £44,000 · 3 February 2025 · awarded ### [FCP: Improving the tone of Defra group communications](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-e39d10b2-eb16-4d9d-9a0a-750e04b33273) DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS · The First Word · £19,900 · 21 February 2025 · awarded ### [FCP Historic England 23/24 & 24/25 FCP programme funding](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-4bd019f1-c3e0-4198-a738-29099dbe2cfd) DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS · Historic England · £995,523 · 16 December 2024 · awarded ### [NCF: Vacant & Derelict Land Mapping - stages 1 and 2](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-8bb19a93-2f2a-4a13-9ee7-12ddbb3a2cd4) DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS · Ordnance Survey · £150,000 · 4 December 2023 · awarded ### [Local Air Quality Management Support 2025 - 2030](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-e015b55c-002e-47f7-9722-26b98e89574d) DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS · Bureau Veritas UK Limited · £2,009,495 · 27 June 2025 · awarded ### [RDE808: Animal Abuse and Domestic Homicide/Suicide](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-c026c8af-fb1e-45a4-8c8b-82ac551c2f20) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · University of Bristol · £68,775 · 30 June 2025 · awarded ### [Replacement Instrumentation for use on the UK Automatic Hydrocarbons Network\. Purchase, Testing and Equipment Support of new Instrumentation](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-9596931b-cbc1-44e5-bb65-2a35d7aef3f6) DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS · We Care 4 Air · £1,568,919 · 23 June 2025 · awarded ### [RDE805: Refreshing TB Strategy: Engaging Stakeholders and Publics for Effective](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-77d7c35b-6e9d-44d8-a1c5-b7a7084a4b50) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Ipsos · £114,450 · 19 June 2025 · awarded ### [RDE267: Forward look review: opportunities for Defra's crop Genetic Improvement](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-e04bb1de-af09-4f3a-ac8e-6c36facd157b) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Cranfield University · £98,732 · 20 June 2025 · awarded ### [A Review of Plant Genetic Breeding Approaches for Field Grown and CEA Crops](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-4085baac-9629-4d95-86ea-d31846d8fdbc) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · NIAB · £92,980 · 11 June 2025 · awarded ### [RDE807 - Data insights for the circular economy](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-564e2f40-afa6-421e-bd29-e41a791796a1) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · ICF Consulting Services Limited · £114,995 · 17 June 2025 · awarded ### [Horsefly Analytics](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-0d096d65-058f-4fe8-bcdb-76b479f1adaa) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · AI Recruitment Technologies Limited · £55,000 · 1 April 2025 · awarded ### [Defra Corporate Service Change Programme - Synergy - ERP & Corporate Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-aafacaed-b081-4cbb-a3bc-3cc680141870) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Stephen Matthews & Associates Limited · £254,000 · 9 June 2025 · awarded ### [RDE802: The impact of 'regenerative agriculture' practices on peat soils](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5ffbbfb2-6178-4117-bd98-b8f3a8b12a0f) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · RSK ADAS Limited · £108,363 · 16 June 2025 · awarded Page 11 of 69; 1704 total records.