RPA Vendor Support
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRSEstimated Value
£560,000 – £0
Deadline
17 September 2026
Published
1 October 2026
Type
services
At a glance
- Estimated value
- From £560,000
- Closing date
- 17 September 2026 (closed)
- Published
- 1 October 2026
- Location
- multiple UK regions
- Type
- Services
- CPV code
- 72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- Contract ends
- 16 September 2029 (expect a re-tender before then)
- Published on
- Contracts Finder
Overview
The requirement is for Rural Payments Agency (RPA) vendor support which is hosted across two datacentres, one for Development, Test and Disaster Recovery and the other for Production. Rural Payments Service (RPS) comprises of business critical applications including the Rural Payments Portal - Siti Agri, the Customer Portal and database, the Land Management System (LMS) and the Data Warehouse (DWH).
It is expected that some components will be replaced over the coming years, however there are others that are likely to remain for some time. It is likely that the Customer Portal and Payments Portal will remain in operation for several years until transition plans are confirmed.
This is a critical service requirement, without this contract Defra Group will not be able to guarantee service continuity in enabling the RPS to make payments to landowners. This strategy is to safeguard a specific service that Defra requires and to investigate other longer-term options to move to the cloud and become more cloud native.
Additional details
This is a critical service requirement, without this contract Defra Group will not be able to guarantee service continuity in enabling the RPS to make payments to landowners. The initial call off period is for 3 years with the possibility of 1+1 extension options to ensure continuity of a critical requirement.
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DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRSKey Dates
Published
1 October 2026
Submission deadline
17 September 2026
Renewal expected40% confident
September 2030
Predicted using median duration of UK contracts in the same CPV division (47 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Sep 2030).
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