# NIAB — UK public sector contract awards

> A prime supplier profile built from sourced government contract award notices.

## Key facts

- Awards: 21
- Known award value: £3,187,115
- First award: 15 August 2016
- Latest award: 18 September 2025

## Top public sector buyers

- [Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs](/buyers/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs/contract-awards) — 11 awards
- [Defra](/buyers/defra/contract-awards) — 4 awards
- Defra Network eTendering Portal — 4 awards
- [AHDB](/buyers/ahdb/contract-awards) — 1 awards
- [Natural England](/buyers/natural-england/contract-awards) — 1 awards

## Contract awards

### [RDE894 - Assessment of the compatibility of active water level management for f](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-b37626e3-7e28-48c1-b916-65a60dd964fd)

Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs · £49,792 · 18 September 2025 · awarded

### [Artificial Intelligence Genomic Pattern Recognition for Barley](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-a4b80af4-c3bb-4387-99e7-13981e99258d)

Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs · £266,463 · 10 September 2025 · awarded

### [RDE821 - Methodology to include paludiculture in definition of good agricultural](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5cbeb014-cc22-4899-93c0-de7c99f98a46)

Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs · £83,203 · 3 September 2025 · awarded

### [A Review of Plant Genetic Breeding Approaches for Field Grown and CEA Crops](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-4085baac-9629-4d95-86ea-d31846d8fdbc)

Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs · £92,980 · 11 June 2025 · awarded

### [RDE798 Brown marmorated stink bug \(Halyomorpha halys\) surveillance in the UK](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-ec53536f-1c03-4020-b6ca-acb9bec25c43)

Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs · £25,000 · 4 June 2025 · awarded

### [RDE635 Brown marmorated stink bug \(Halyomorpha halys\) surveillance in the UK](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-46d0f908-2e0e-4ed3-97f9-9b8fd9839a82)

Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs · £29,813 · 24 July 2024 · awarded

### [Genetic Improvement Network Platform - Soft Fruit](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-b7a571b7-2fc0-499c-8f98-47629653e047)

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £3,597,513 · 16 May 2024 · awarded

### [RDE568 Evaluating Approaches for the Restoration of Degraded Soils](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-bf763a5e-dc2c-419e-bd64-03cf4ddc8134)

Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs · £79,977 · 6 June 2024 · awarded

### [Supply of Recommended List 2023-2024 - Winter Trials](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-02270295-8c7d-4a64-8ea6-d44de8b5f290)

DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD &amp; RURAL AFFAIRS · £60,000 · 4 December 2023 · awarded

### [RDE 462 - Paludiculture agronomy and scoping potential paludiculture food crops](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d46fa31a-be09-4ac6-99b4-2fdbccaa7a3e)

DEFRA · £66,660 · 19 December 2023 · awarded

### [RDE174 Artificial Intelligence and molecular markers for soft fruit](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-de0f6d1b-458d-4bb6-8239-c00046294472)

Defra · £49,999 · 23 March 2023 · awarded

### [Use of biomolecular technology in DUS testing](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d5a17093-5e20-497d-adb9-dd1a03b53a1e)

Defra · £196,000 · 14 February 2023 · awarded

### [2022-560 Trial Seed Processing](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-fb75d103-ff29-462b-a064-9e1d3153faf5)

AHDB · £459,000 · 30 May 2023 · awarded

### [Natural England Long Term Monitoring Network - Soil Sampling Method Comparison](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-bb25b187-9c96-4f6f-aed2-23ea52b1288f)

Natural England · £16,175 · 12 December 2022 · awarded

### [SuSCrop Joint call on agrobiodiversity](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-b64d5e03-40b0-4495-bd50-674d2214af88)

DEFRA · £102,629 · 27 February 2023 · awarded

### [project\_36587 - NCF: Paludiculture Exploration Fund - Engagement contract Contract Award](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-bb259ea1-d9bc-46d7-a3e8-b500bc5de666)

Defra Network eTendering Portal · £330,457 · 12 September 2022 · awarded

### [Laboratory Quality Testing for AHDB's Recommended List Project](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-b7c0c0b9-f5d1-46a9-b9f7-76ae1a054fa3)

Defra Network eTendering Portal · £693,457 · 19 October 2021 · awarded

### [Provision of Increased Seed Testing for ISTA OIC's](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-fe6e638b-9a04-4604-8e0a-423ab1ec34a8)

Defra Network eTendering Portal · £2,130,522 · 28 September 2020 · awarded

### [Recommended List disease coordination](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-3b2b8086-69f2-4498-8baa-f5d161dbaf3e)

DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD &amp; RURAL AFFAIRS · £0 · 21 February 2018 · awarded

### [Trial seed processing - Seed handling, treatment and distribution](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-1c1b82a9-8d87-43b8-8e43-4203cc0717ac)

Defra Network eTendering Portal · £307,355 · 6 June 2017 · awarded

### [Integrating Potato Agronomy and Storage](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-bc5b5c93-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b)

DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD &amp; RURAL AFFAIRS · £278,156 · 15 August 2016 · awarded
