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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

Open Access LandIS Portal

Environment & WasteCPV 90714100 72267100
Value£14.2m
Awarded1 Sept 2025
Published17 Oct 2025
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£14.2mtotal contract value
median £195k
this tender£0£15.3m

This is a large award for Environment & Waste — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 11,894 valued Environment & Waste tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The existing LandIS agreement between Cranfield University (CU) and Defra sets out the conditions under which Defra can access: • The platform which is owned and hosted by Cranfield for the provision of National Soil Map (NATMAP) • National Soil Inventory (NSI) and soil attribute data (SOILSERIES & HORIZON), and its supplementary data bases (broadly: the LandIS platform data).

All Crown bodies currently enjoy full royalty-free access to LandIS, and this available to charities and research institutions.

Non-crown bodies such as the Environment Agency or Natural England, and other public sector bodies, private individuals, consultants, and businesses do not have royalty-free access to this data.

Defra and Cranfield University are working towards reducing or removing some of the licencing restrictions pertaining to the afore mentioned datasets.

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