DEFRA awards Kainos Software Limited £150m ADMS Plus contract
One of three identical contracts issued under the same procurement, each valued at £150,000,000, has gone to Kainos Software Limited.
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The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has awarded Kainos Software Limited a contract worth £150m for application development, maintenance and support work. The award forms one of three contracts issued to three suppliers under the ADMS Plus procurement, each carrying the same £150,000,000 value.
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has signed off a £150m contract with Kainos Software Limited covering application development, maintenance and support work.
The deal falls under a wider procurement titled Application Development, Maintenance and Support (ADMS) Plus, which the notice describes as "one procurement opportunity that resulted in the award of three contracts to three suppliers, each with a value of £150,000,000". Kainos Software Limited's award is one of that trio.
The contract was awarded on 2026-05-20T23:00:00Z, with the notice published on 2026-06-23T13:57:03Z.
Suppliers and buyers tracking public sector application support spending will note that this notice confirms only one of the three £150,000,000 awards under ADMS Plus. Firms bidding into similar Defra digital work can expect further award notices detailing the other two contracts to surface separately.