Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) tenders, awards, and pre-procurement notices.
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has 10 open tenders and 9,859 awarded contracts on Stotles. Its activity spans Research and development services and related consultancy services, Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services and Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security. It is the 2nd largest buyer in London by recent notice volume. Over the last five years it has awarded 4,662 contracts worth £10.1bn.
About Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is a ministerial department that also buys through agencies such as the Environment Agency, the Rural Payments Agency and the Animal and Plant Health Agency. Suppliers register on the DEFRA eCommercial website, Atamis, to compete for contract opportunities across the department. Larger opportunities are advertised through the Find a Tender service under the Procurement Act 2023, in force since February 2025. DEFRA also procures goods and services through the Crown Commercial Service. Existing contracts and frameworks set up under the previous procurement regulations remain valid until they expire.
Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.
Over the past 5 years, most of DEFRA's contract awards have been in research and development, construction work and business services.
Recent notices from Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Browse open tenders, awarded contracts, and pre-procurement documents from Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Click on any notice to view more details.
- Expired contract
Lot 1 Starcross
- Expired contract
Understanding beneficiaries and values of Wetland Treatment
- Expired contract
Risk analysis of potential Trichinella exposure for pigs with outdoor access
- Expired contract
Character Assessment for the South West Inshore and Offshore Marine Plan
- Expired contract
Using Suspended Solids Captured by Citizen Scientists to Indicate Effective Locations to Target Measures to Mitigate Urban Diffuse Pollution
- Expired contract
Surface water drainage charges to increase SuDs
- Expired contract
Re-purposing Data From Urban Drainage Modelling To Target Green Infrastructure to Improve Urban Water Quality
- Expired contract
Making a Difference for Urban Rivers
- Expired contract
One (1) SVI for APHA, Inverurie, Scotland
- Expired contract
Black Carbon monitoring network 2012-2015
- Expired contract
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs)
- Expired contract
Appointment of 2 SVI's at Sand Hutton
- Expired contract
Provision of Darwin Initiative and IWT Challenge Fund Grant Administration
- Expired contract
Environment Agency - Water Safety Training
- Expired contract
Monitoring of contaminants in UK cereals used for processing food and animal feed
- Expired contract
Scoping study for development and validation of gelatine species of origin determination method and proteomic meat species identification method
- Expired contract
Service, Maintenance and Fit-Testing of RPE at APHA
- Expired contract
KEW MOA - Vascular Plant Conservation 2016-18
Top procurement categories
Categories Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has published tenders under over the last five years.
- Research and development services and related consultancy services1,214£2.0bn
- Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services983£21.0bn
- Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security891£5.9bn
- IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support738£9.2bn
- Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services662£3.8bn
- Construction work654£18.7bn
- Education and training services383£152.3m
- Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)215£136.6m
- Software package and information systems140£665.7m
- Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services139£1.2bn
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Get direct contact details for senior stakeholders at Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) so you can get your business in front of the people who actually sign off on contracts.
| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
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| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs-defra.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs-defra.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs-defra.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs-defra.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs-defra.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs-defra.gov |
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