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How to win: Procurement of (Pan-Defra) Research and Development Evidence Portal

A services contract from DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS, worth £500,000. Below: what it involves and how to write a winning bid for it.

Buyer

DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

Value

£500,000

Closing date

3 June 2026

About this contract

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 established to modernise the technology services that enable the delivery of the Defra organisations requirements to publish Defra’s research and development information and capabilities for open access publication, to support integrated discovery and exploitation of Defra Group R&D (Research and Development), facilitating evidence synthesis and to also manage publications and knowledge curation activity where required for staff only. Defra also has a requirement to publicly release its Research and Development (R&D) reports to modern, accessibility and timeliness standards, for open access dissemination and exploitation and reuse. Currently there are multiple assurance, publication processes and document storage facilities in use across the Defra group, many reliant on legacy technologies. Modern Research Data Management technology services offer publication capabilities and i

How to win contracts like this

✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
✓At £500,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
✓Start early: it closes 3 June 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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