# 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: 1706 - Known award value: £370,119,807 - Distinct contract winners: 664 - First award: 22 September 2010 - Latest award: 5 October 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 ### [RDE795 - Government Buying Standards Evaluation](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-26147516-5b94-4254-b603-87f5505822b7) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · ICF Consulting Services Limited · £83,265 · 2 May 2025 · awarded ### [ETAFFDefraNAT003: Farmer One-to-One Advice Sessions and Advisor Video](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-4b4962cb-9f6a-49bc-bdd7-212108c8e821) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Ricardo-AEA Ltd · £33,300 · 12 May 2025 · awarded ### [RDE788 Lake Naturalness Training Materials](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5e9e8b7a-f539-475c-b343-a0e46576e246) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · WSP UK Ltd · £67,139 · 28 March 2025 · awarded ### [RDE800 - Beach benefits resulting from the Environmental Protection \(Plastic St](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-92783a2c-99bb-4bc4-a1d1-aa33b1d7af0b) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Ipsos · £5,900 · 29 April 2025 · awarded ### [Defra Online Survey Tool](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-8d60ad1d-dad0-4390-9d76-13030b2d910d) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Capricorn Ventis Limited · £170,000 · 30 May 2025 · awarded ### [RDE787 - A review of microbial indicators of faecal contamination](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-905f3d8b-3d6d-4c2a-9b8a-60bb7ad5ccaf) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Water Research Centre Limited · £55,067 · 28 April 2025 · awarded ### [SCAH CDM Advisor](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-ced26bdf-c721-4f57-affa-ffb80b3e16e5) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Drees & Sommer UK · £225,921 · 1 April 2025 · awarded ### [RDE780 - Exploring opportunities for eDNA and molecular datasets to underpin UK](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5203ac64-ccc1-4a98-9671-5c469bc1cf6b) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Fera Science Ltd · £75,332 · 2 May 2025 · awarded ### [Neurodiversity in the farming community - Farmers Weekly's](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-1daa02eb-b310-4235-97a4-82f84c789ee4) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · MA AGRICULTURE LIMITED · £15,000 · 4 April 2025 · awarded ### [The Agricultural Land Classification system full technical review​](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-ab4aad0b-26df-433d-8456-1fb0c0371c6f) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · RSK ADAS Limited · £643,043 · 10 April 2025 · awarded ### [NCF R&D: ETPP-31 Assessment of Global Risk Analysis for Novel Tree Species](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5bcc066d-a33b-4487-88ff-e2d1814006fb) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology \(UKCEH\) · £171,819 · 27 August 2024 · awarded ### [RDE789 Designing an effective approach to personal exposure monitoring](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-14b976ad-3f7b-468e-abe6-f3cfd26fb0cf) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Imperial College Projects Ltd · £99,500 · 16 April 2025 · awarded ### [Support for the Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections \(TFEIP\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-8a8dff5f-2e21-47c8-98cd-a374a0d8278d) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Aether Limited · £275,475 · 10 April 2025 · awarded ### [RDE721 Food Loss Waste, and Surplus in Primary Production in the UK\(Food-WaSPP\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-acf91b0c-f4b1-4e71-ac1e-57fc1bbd9c55) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Waste and Resources Action Programme \(WRAP\) · £114,781 · 6 March 2025 · awarded ### [RDE749 Reservoir Safety Research Strategy \(2025\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-a622592a-4a35-4bfc-bee8-ffc54304a6ff) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Jeremy Benn Associates Limited \(t/a JBA Consulting\) · £101,229 · 4 April 2025 · awarded ### [Office Supplies for sites not covered by FM24](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-1b4d05cd-15f6-4201-ac18-d98863d63b57) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Banner Group Limited · £253,917 · 16 April 2025 · awarded ### [DgP: Hopper Rectification & Thermal Insulation](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f9f33801-8bdc-4172-9cf2-4a35e4a096ae) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Lührfilter Ltd · £10,995 · 18 April 2025 · awarded ### [External Venues](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-28ecbe1c-819b-4124-a08f-2d46142d9c83) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Calder Conferences · £20,400,000 · 15 April 2025 · awarded ### [Multi-cloud options, credits and Billing Support for the APHA Scientific Computing Environment\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-0bbdeb00-2311-4b8a-9a94-630a1bfdc3e8) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Strategic Blue Services Limited · £850,000 · 25 February 2025 · awarded ### [Supply of the DIVA Skin Test Fusion protein for BCG cattle vaccine field trials](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d81a0394-f6d5-49c5-9268-b2e622f0daa4) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · LIONEX GmbH · £50,817 · 8 April 2025 · awarded ### [UK Hydrocarbons Monitoring Network 2025-2027](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-e673c3a2-d220-491d-9463-e8a9a8a72f4d) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Ricardo-AEA Limited · £2,550,514 · 25 March 2025 · awarded ### [Signage contract NE & EA \(Direct Award\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-36636fc2-0dea-4b16-b18f-8746d46de904) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · Wood&Wood International Signs Ltd · £1,100,000 · 4 April 2025 · awarded ### [ITHC, Penetration Testing and Associated Services Contract](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-199f7367-d458-47ef-9b1f-c8bdc68dd673) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · 3B Data Security Ltd · £3,375,000 · 21 March 2025 · awarded ### [ITHC, Penetration Testing and Associated Services Contract](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-c6b16549-75d9-4475-a399-e5309856f114) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Prism Infosec Ltd · £3,375,000 · 19 March 2025 · awarded ### [ITHC, Penetration Testing & Associated Services Contract](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f5084cb9-8cf1-4a11-a620-3c0a54750405) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Commissum Associates · £3,375,000 · 19 March 2025 · awarded Page 13 of 69; 1706 total records.