Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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• Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) Litter Survey

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingEngagement closes 6 Feb, 2026Value £200.00kSource Find a Tender

  The UK Government is introducing a Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) for drinks containers, launching in October 2027. Under the scheme, consumers will pay a small, refundable deposit on single use PET and metal drinks containers, which is returned when the container is brought back to a return point. The aim is to reduce li

• MRF (Marine Recovery Fund) - Procurement of Strategic Compensatory Measures (SCMs)

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingEngagement closes 31 Mar, 2026Value £4.17mSource Find a Tender

  As part of Defra’s role in delivering strategic compensatory measures via the Marine Recovery Fund (MRF), Defra as the MRF Operator (MRFO) IS seeking expressions of interest from third party delivery partners who may be interested in delivering predator reduction schemes at specific sites likely to be on offshore islan

• SOC Out-of-Hours Protective Monitoring Service

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingPublished 16 Dec, 2025Value £1.20mSource Find a Tender

  Defra's Security Operations Centre (SOC) is reliant on a hybrid model for protective monitoring, whereby Defra's internal SOC provides coverage during standard business hours (09:00-17:00) Monday to Friday and an external supplier delivers monitoring outside these hours. Defra is seeking to reprocure this out-of-hours

• Water Quality Research and Catchment Planning in the River Wye

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingEngagement closes 17 Dec, 2025Value £1.00mSource Find a Tender

  Defra and Welsh government are tendering for a new research project on water quality in the River Wye. In particular, we want to gather evidence on the impact of agriculture in this catchment and identify actions which will help us tackle the associated pollution. This project has the following aims: 1. Investigate t

• Biodiversity Net Gain Units Procurement

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingEngagement closes 30 Jan, 2026Value £416.67kSource Find a Tender

  Defra intends to purchase Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) units of an indicative total value of £500,000. The units must be one or more of the following types of Very High (VH) or High (H) Distinctiveness units, (as defined in The Statutory Biodiversity Metric user guide*): Blanket bog (VH) Fens (upland and lowland) (VH) G

• tNCEA - National Hydrometry Data Logger

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingEngagement closes 28 Nov, 2025Value £0.01Source Find a Tender

  A new framework will be established for the supply of hydrometric data loggers capable of cardinal point logging functionality. Additionally, the framework will include after sales technical support and cover the supply of spare parts and modules necessary for the repair and maintenance of data logging equipment acquir

• Defra Special Project - Stakeholder Engagement

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingEngagement closes 24 Nov, 2025Source Find a Tender

  Defra is responsible for managing a confidential and sensitive project that is exploring options to deliver organisational change to support a long-term strategic objective. The project is complex, multi-year, and involves stakeholders who are accustomed to current arrangements and may be resistant even to the discussi

• Cyber Incident Response Partner Service

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingPublished 21 Oct, 2025Value £350.00kSource Find a Tender

  Defra is seeking a Cyber Incident Response Partner to act as their prime threat intelligence partner, conduct forensic investigations and respond to cyber security incidents.

• Defra Group General Courier Service

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingEngagement closes 30 Oct, 2025Value £1.75mSource Find a Tender

  The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra Group also known as Buyer) requires a day-to-day courier service for its staff across the United Kingdom and internationally to ensure continuity of service in the works that we do. Supplier shall be required to collect and deliver consignments from a variety

• Domestic Combustion Tracking and Evaluation

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingEngagement closes 2 Oct, 2025Value £1.00Source Find a Tender

  Defra is seeking to commission a multi-year research programme to strengthen the evidence base around solid fuel burning across the UK, with a focus on domestic settings. The contract is expected to run from 1st February 2026 until at least 31st January 2030 with the possibility of a one (1) year extension (which is no

• Advanced technologies for autonomous health and welfare monitoring in aquaculture

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingEngagement closes 21 Aug, 2025Source Find a Tender

  Scope - The Government supports the production of healthy, high-welfare animals as part of the UK’s food system. We are aware that there is significantly less known about what drives the behaviour of individual fish compared to terrestrial animals. Technical advances in monitoring individuals in group settings combined

• CBRN Remediation Services Framework

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingEngagement closes 20 Aug, 2025Value £26.00mSource Find a Tender

  The Remediation Services Framework is procured, on behalf of UK Government, by the Department for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) Emergencies Team. The Government will however reserve the right to use other services other than the Framework in the case o

• Plant Service Inspection Maintenance and Repair (SIMAR)

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingPublished 24 Jul, 2025Value £49.00mSource Find a Tender

  Defra have a requirement for the provision of Servicing, Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (SIMAR) services for Plant assets to support the Environment Agency and other Defra Groups. Key requirements of this contract are: • The provision of a 24 / 7 national service • A flexible and cost-effective supplier • Competent

• Defra Closed Pension Schemes Administration

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingEngagement closes 5 Sept, 2025Value £750.00kSource Find a Tender

  Administration and management of two small closed pension schemes.

• CBRN Remediation Services Framework

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingPublished 5 Jun, 2025Value £20.00mSource Find a Tender

  The Remediation Services Framework is procured, on behalf of UK Government, by the Department for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) Emergencies Team. The Government will however reserve the right to use other services other than the Framework in the case o

• tNCEA - Citizen Science Integrated Survey Design

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingEngagement closes 12 Jun, 2025Value £1.00Source Find a Tender

  Natural England, on behalf of Defra and the NCEA programme, are working to design and test Integrated Surveys for monitoring. The goal is to combine a range of accessible survey approaches and methods, considering how these should be deployed in unison to achieve greater survey participation, capacity, capability and a

• tNCEA - Citizen Science Integrated Survey Design

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingEngagement closes 12 Jun, 2025Value £1.00Source Find a Tender

  Natural England, on behalf of Defra and the NCEA programme, are working to design and test Integrated Surveys for monitoring. The goal is to combine a range of accessible survey approaches and methods, considering how these should be deployed in unison to achieve greater survey participation, capacity, capability and a

• National Co-ordinator & Delivery Lead for a Badger Vaccination Field Force

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingPublished 29 May, 2025Value £10.00mSource Find a Tender

  Defra's requirement is for one (or more) organisation(s) to co-ordinate and deliver badger Vaccination Services within defined 'Project Areas' with high levels of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in the High Risk and Edge areas of England. The Contractor(s) responsibilities will include: - Contracting and managing Delivery Pa

• Data Management and Compliance Reporting

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingEngagement closes 20 Jun, 2025Source Find a Tender

  The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will be inviting proposals to provide the Management of ‘Air Quality’ Data and the Formal Reporting of Air Quality for the ‘Data Management and Compliance Reporting’ contract. This project will be split into two lots. Lot 1: Delivers the collection, aggrega

• Food Data Infrastructure and Governance

  Location: United Kingdom

  UpcomingEngagement closes 2 Jun, 2025Value £1.00Source Find a Tender

  In collaboration with the Food Data Transparency Partnership (FDTP), Defra’s Agri-Food Science team are tendering for a new R&D project on Agri-food system data sharing infrastructure and governance. This project has the following aims: 1. To identify the breadth of data and data sharing initiatives, currently within t