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Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs

Environmental Science Research, Development and Evidence (ES RDE) Framework

Value£192.0m
Deadline
Published9 Dec 2025
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
procurement@defra.gov.uk

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The brief

An open framework for Scientific Research and Development (R&D) and monitoring.

It will cover the following thematic areas: Food Science, Farming, Air Quality and Sound, Vegetation and Soil, Flood and Water, Marine and Fisheries, Resource and Waste, Animal Welfare and Plant Health, Biodiversity and Chemicals.

Contracts under the Environmental Science Research, Development and Evidence Framework (ES RDE) will comprise creative work undertaken on a systematic basis to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications.

Basic research, applied research and experimental development research will all be in scope.

Evidence covers a range of sciences including economics, social research, operational research, statistics, natural science, evaluation, engineering and geography.

This notice informs the market of the award of suppliers who have been awarded a place on a framework only.

There are no guarantees of work or contract value made as a result.

All 'contract' values refer to total 8-year lot values.

Due to system limitations in publishing the full volume of contracts and supplier information, all relevant details are provided in the following link: https://atamis-9529.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/8d000003VQwd/a/Tu000006TVo9/XLGhGwa2q41lFThohkhBVRkd0mhi0AlEwwPt9UhswU0 Please ensure that you click the 'download' option to get the full text of the notice.

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OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04ef64
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
081210-2025
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