Corporate report

FCRM investment programme and asset management commercial strategy: 2025 to 2035

A 10-year plan for how Environment Agency Flood and Coastal Erosion Management procures, manages contracts and works with suppliers.

Applies to England

Documents

10-year flood and coastal risk management investment programme and asset management commercial strategy

Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

This strategy is a:

  • 10-year plan for how we procure, manage contracts, and engage with suppliers
  • structured strategic model that ensures alignment and consistency, and supports building-in best practice across contract and framework delivery
  • commitment to becoming a mature, intelligent client that maximises value in every commercial decision, supported by a clear capability-building pathway through our active plans
  • recognition that commercial capability, and the responsibility to apply it, extends beyond commercial teams and is shared across the organisation
  • proportionate approach that recognises the diversity of our procurements – applying the principles of the strategic model flexibly to suit the scale, complexity, and context of each procurement

Updates to this page

Published 17 December 2025

Sign up for emails or print this page