Defra focuses on environmental stewardship, land management, and the sustainable use of natural resources. Its strategic priorities include the implementation of catchment-sensitive farming programs, the restoration of river systems, and the development of nature markets to address capacity building and data failures.
Defra is a government agency with procurement activity across contracts, awards, and contractors. Over the last 12 months, Defra has obligated $4,540,483, issued 15 awards, and worked with 6 contractors. Procurement is concentrated in Project management consultancy services, Environmental training services, and IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support.
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Defra focuses on environmental stewardship, land management, and the sustainable use of natural resources. Its strategic priorities include the implementation of catchment-sensitive farming programs, the restoration of river systems, and the development of nature markets to address capacity building...
Defra focuses on environmental stewardship, land management, and the sustainable use of natural resources. Its strategic priorities include the implementation of catchment-sensitive farming programs, the restoration of river systems, and the development of nature markets to address capacity building and data failures. The agency also prioritizes the modernization of statutory casework services, specifically within planning, wildlife licensing, and protected sites, integrating digital elements to improve service delivery.
The agency primarily procures professional services, including general management consultancy, project management, and environmental training. Procurement is heavily reliant on call-offs from framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems, indicating a preference for pre-qualified supplier lists to streamline the acquisition of specialist technical and advisory services.
Defra engages a variety of specialist vendors, ranging from global engineering and project management consultancies like Mott MacDonald, AECOM, WSP, Arcadis, and T&T, to niche providers of environmental training and corporate health services.
Based in London, Defra operates as a department of the Government of the United Kingdom. Its organizational scope involves managing large-scale environmental projects and statutory services across various regions, utilizing a structure of framework agreements to manage complex, multi-vendor service delivery.
Top Contractors
Companies with the highest total award amounts from this agency, ranked by contract value.
Contracting offices ("desks") within this agency, ranked by total award value. This is where deals are actually signed.
Ranked by Total Awards
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$4.5M
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$4.5M
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Leadership and vacancies
Senate-confirmed and senior-executive posts at Defra and its sub-agencies, as published in the OPM Plum Book. These are leadership positions, not total employees.
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