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DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

Defra Special Project - Stakeholder Engagement

Business ServicesCPV 79416000
Value£170k
Deadline20 Feb 2026
Published26 Jan 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 26 Jan 2026ClosedCloses 20 Feb 2026
Who to contact
Katie Thompson
katie.thompson@defra.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
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Contract value in context
£170ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Business Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Defra is responsible for managing a confidential and sensitive project that is exploring options to deliver organisational change to support a long-term strategic objective.

The project is complex, multi-year, and involves stakeholders who are accustomed to current arrangements and may be resistant even to the discussion of change.

We require an experienced Stakeholder Engagement Adviser to provide strategic advice and support in shaping and delivering an engagement approach that helps to build trust, address concerns, and guide stakeholders through a common-sense discussion of the options and their benefits/disbenefits, and potentially also a sensitive transition process.

Defra has already completed stakeholder mapping but requires support in engagement planning, advisory services, and risk management.

Requirements

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01

Defra is responsible for managing a confidential

Defra is responsible for managing a confidential and sensitive project that is exploring options to deliver organisational change to support a long-term strategic objective.

02

Defra has already completed stakeholder mapping but

Defra has already completed stakeholder mapping but requires support in engagement planning, advisory services, and risk management.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e289
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
006768-2026
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