Published date: 16 October 2025

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 11 March 2025, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Geographic information systems (GIS or equivalent) - 38221000

  • IT software package - 48517000

  • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

    • Data management services - 72322000

Location of contract

RG1 3YD

Value of contract

£5,657,504.27 to £9,691,693.27

Procurement reference

CF-0554900D8d000003VQwdEAG

Published date

16 October 2025

Closing date

11 March 2025

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 October 2025

Contract end date

30 September 2030

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established dynamic purchasing system.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

The capabilities required for this contract are summarised below:
(a) to implement a minimum viable product (MVP) within twelve months of the contract start date;
(b) to provide the following core functionality for users:
• to use imagery sources to identify farm habitats;
• to monitor land use and cover changes with respect to farming activities;
• to extract markers from imagery sources;
• to ingest imagery sources and other data from other RPA and Defra Group systems;
• to publish outputs to other RPA and Defra Group systems;
• to monitor compliance with scheme agreements for a land parcel; and
• for users to utilise the Supplier's solution in the field and add their own imagery sources and ground truth data for a land parcel.
(c) to provide product delivery, user-centred services, IT service management, and hosting;
(d) to provide the capability to introduce future services, such as integrating additional imagery sources, provisioning additional imagery sources, developing new data products derived from imagery sources, developing new markers, and integrating the Supplier's solution with other RPA and Defra Group systems; and
(e) to provide the option for other Defra Group Bodies (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations#department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs) and other UK "Paying Agencies" to utilise the contract.


More information

Attachments


Award information

Awarded date

26 September 2025

Contract start date

1 October 2025

Contract end date

30 September 2030

Total value of contract

£9,691,693.27

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Compass Informatics

Address

Templar House, Sandbeck Court, Sandbeck Way LS22 7BA

Reference

None


About the buyer

Contact name

Neil Widdop

Address

PO Box 69
Reading
RG1 3YD
GB

Email

neil.widdop@defra.gov.uk