PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

RDE884 - Innovation in Soil Mapping & Classification Project - ALC data capture

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · published 28 Aug 2025. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release IDff1eaa44-ad6e-43c2-b3af-19ddf8638689-861151
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-f701c222-237d-4687-9b36-715c495c1e6f
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-322589
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£73,746
award field
Tender value
£73,746
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
73200000
Research and development consultancy services
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

It is our aim to collate, georeferenced and provide this data for free public use under a gov.uk data sharing licence in a geo-referenced form so that all the soils information from a single boring or soil pit are associated with a single line of data, which can then be associated with a georeferenced sampling point. Contract awarded by Defra.

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release28 Aug 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published24 Aug 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published24 Aug 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2026
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

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Published name only

Ricardo-AEA Ltd

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 28 Aug 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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