AHDB (Defra Network eTendering Portal)

How to win their contracts

Measured from AHDB (Defra Network eTendering Portal)'s own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 34 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 5 of their tenders.
• They publish about 0.7 tenders a month, measured over 23 months of history.
• Half of their 9 awarded contracts are worth £240k or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, education and training services, it services: consulting, software development, internet and support.