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The UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) wants to get to know some tech suppliers able to support its ambition to upgrade its data services platform in a deal which could be worth £10m.

The current platform is used to support a wide range of Defra and third-party applications, from hydrology to fish data. But the department is looking to move to the third generation of the Data Services Platform and has set out to on an "market engagement process" to talk to suppliers who might be able to help out.

According to the prior information notice, the Whitehall department, which spends around £2.6bn a year, is on the hunt for suppliers to help with data integration services, domain registry services, linked data, linked data APIs, metadata catalogue, and so on.