Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Upcoming opportunities

• Provision of Baseline Measurements of Stratospheric Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation

  Location: London

  UpcomingEngagement closes 20 Nov, 202616 daysValue £1.70mSource Find a Tender

  Defra is seeking to contract with supplier(s) possessing the scientific, technical and analytical expertise required to provide baseline measurements of stratospheric ozone and ultraviolet radiation. The successful supplier(s) will undertake daily column ozone observations and collect spectral UV-B measurements across

• National Focal Centre (NFC) to Model and Map Air Pollution Impacts on UK habitat

  Location: London

  UpcomingEngagement closes 4 Feb, 20273 monthsSource Find a Tender

  Defra is seeking to contract with supplier(s) possessing the scientific, technical and analytical expertise required to maintain and develop the UK National Focal Centre (NFC). The successful supplier(s) will deliver annual UK-wide modelling and mapping of pollutant deposition (ammonia, oxides of nitrogen and sulphur d

• Project to Improve School Food Procurement Practices

  Location: London

  UpcomingPublished 23 Oct, 2026Value £2.00mSource Find a Tender

  Background The Government seeks to improve public sector food procurement (PSFP). Subject to legal constraints, it aims for half of all public sector food to be locally produced or certified to higher environmental standards. The new National Procurement Policy Statement, published in February 2025, sets expectations f

• Andover Data Centre Co-Location Agreement

  Location: London

  UpcomingPublished 20 Oct, 2026Value £4.00mSource Find a Tender

  A Co-Location Agreement for the Atos Andover DC is required in support Defra's Future Hosting and Support contract. This contract will provide co-location services (rack space, power, cooling, etc), for Data Centre equipment currently in situ in Andover DC.

• Rhydymwyn Wildlife Management Contract

  Location: London

  UpcomingEngagement closes 23 Nov, 202619 daysValue £360.00kSource Find a Tender

  Defra intends to run an open tender to procure a new contract for the ecological management of the Defra-owned Rhydymwyn Valley site near Mold, Flintshire, and is seeking Expressions of Interest from suppliers capable of meeting the contract requirements. Rhydymwyn Valley is a 35.5-hectare site of significant ecologica

• Bycatch Monitoring Programme (BMP) - 26-35

  Location: London

  UpcomingEngagement closes 7 Dec, 202633 daysSource Find a Tender

  Defra intends to run an open tender to procure a new long-term UK Bycatch Monitoring Programme and is seeking Expressions of Interest from suppliers capable of delivering the requirements. The programme will monitor and assess the bycatch of sensitive marine species in UK fisheries, including (but not limited to) cetac

• Certification for Fuel and Appliance Emissions Testing

  Location: London

  UpcomingEngagement closes 12 Oct, 2026Source Find a Tender

  The Authority is looking for a supplier that will deliver a comprehensive certification, testing, verification of test results, and audit service to enable Defra to fulfil statutory requirements under the Clean Air Act 1993 and the Air Quality (Domestic Solid Fuels Standards) (England) Regulations 2020. This includes t

• Manned Aircraft Mounted Lidar and Camera Instrumentation Retender

  Location: London

  UpcomingEngagement closes 20 Aug, 2026Value £3.73mSource Find a Tender

  Defra intend to run an open tender to procure two (2) Airborne Lidar and Camera Systems and are asking for Expressions of Interest. The systems will be used for mapping the terrestrial and coastal environment to fulfil our statutory requirements principally for flood and coastal risk management and incident response.

• Apprenticeship Learner Management System

  Location: London

  UpcomingEngagement closes 26 Aug, 2026Value £300.00kSource Find a Tender

  The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) are undertaking preliminary market engagement to understand the capabilities of the market for an Apprenticeship Learner Management System. The Authorities are seeking information from suppliers able to provide a solution t

• NBC Programme Security Support Services

  Location: London

  UpcomingPublished 29 Jun, 2026Value £300.00kSource Find a Tender

  The specialist support services will be primarily during RIBA Stage 4 Assurance Reviews for the National Biosecurity Centre Programme, ensuring that detailed architectural and engineering designs produced meet all security, regulatory, and programme requirements. This includes participation in End Stage Reviews and tar

• Client-Side Delivery Partner

  Location: London

  UpcomingPublished 24 Jun, 2026Value £45.00mSource Find a Tender

  This project will procure the delivery partner contract which has defined deliverables and milestones in each SOW

• AI Content Creation Training Support

  Location: London

  UpcomingEngagement closes 26 Jun, 2026Value £12.45kSource Find a Tender

  Platform access for up to 3 named users, onboarding session, content workshop, ongoing support and check-in sessions, SCORM-compliant output.

• NMI: GF Centre of Excellence & NM Standards Adoption

  Location: London

  UpcomingPublished 27 May, 2026Source Find a Tender

  The tender seeks a delivery partner to design, deliver, and operate a national Centre of Excellence that strengthens the UK’s nature markets over a three‑year period.

• Procurement of (Pan-Defra) Research and Development Evidence Portal

  Location: London

  UpcomingEngagement closes 3 Jun, 2026Value £500.00kSource Find a Tender

  Defra is the UK government department which is responsible for improving and protecting the environment. Defra aims to grow a green economy and sustain thriving rural communities, and also support the UK's world-leading food, farming and fishing industries. The Defra Research Evidence Portal project has been establishe

• Nature Security research

  Location: London

  UpcomingEngagement closes 27 Jul, 2026Value £2.00mSource Find a Tender

  This three-year project will establish a set of approaches to assess and monitor risks to national security - both in the UK and internationally - arising from global biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse. It will develop a conceptual framework for characterising nature-related security risks, taking a systems appro

• DEFRA Agency Planning Dashboard - Early Market Engagement

  Location: London

  UpcomingEngagement closes 22 May, 2026Source Find a Tender

  The Planning Dashboard is a core tool used by the Business Planning Team to coordinate and monitor operational and business delivery across the agency. It captures and manages plans, milestones, dependencies, updates, and reporting, providing assurance and visibility to senior stakeholders. It also supports dependency

• Flood Risk Assessment Tool - Request for Information

  Location: London

  UpcomingEngagement closes 15 May, 2025Source Find a Tender

  The Environment Agency (EA) require a tool to assess the additional flood risk caused when a flood risk management asset falls below required condition (BRC). Understanding the increased risk helps operational teams to prioritise work to maintain, repair or replace the assets. Managing BRC assets is a central part of t

• Microsoft Enterprise Agreement LSP 2026

  Location: London

  UpcomingEngagement closes 30 Apr, 2026Source Contracts Finder

  Contract for the provision of Microsoft Licences and Services across Defra via a 3rd party "Licence Solutions Provider" via TePas2. Tender expected to be issued within the next month

• e-Commercial system - procurement and contract management functionality

  Location: London

  UpcomingEngagement closes 5 Apr, 2026Source Find a Tender

  Defra has an ongoing requirement for a Software as a Service (SaaS), supporting an e-Commercial system spanning procurement and contract management functionality. The following UK public sector bodies are authorised and enabled to use the current contract: Defra, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Environment Agency, Mari

• NMI: GF Centre of Excellence & NM Standards Adoption

  Location: London

  UpcomingEngagement closes 10 Apr, 2026Source Contracts Finder

  The tender seeks a delivery partner to design, deliver, and operate a national Centre of Excellence that strengthens the UK's nature markets over a three year period.