Scottish Government tenders, awards, and pre-procurement notices.
Scottish Government has 22 open tenders and 4,618 awarded contracts on Stotles. Its activity spans Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security, Research and development services and related consultancy services and IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support. It is the largest buyer in Scotland by recent notice volume. Over the last five years it has awarded 3,291 contracts worth £3.9bn.
About Scottish Government
The Scottish Government is a devolved central government department that buys through its Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate. The directorate also runs frameworks covering construction, corporate services, ICT, professional services, utilities and HR. Many of these frameworks are open to the wider Scottish public sector as well as central government.
The Supplier Development Programme offers free tender training to SMEs and third sector organisations.
Over the past 5 years, most of the Scottish Government's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and research and development.
Recent notices from Scottish Government
Browse open tenders, awarded contracts, and pre-procurement documents from Scottish Government. Click on any notice to view more details.
- Awarded contract
Data Fixes & IT Solution
- Awarded contract
CivTech 7 - Challenge 7.9 - How can technology enable organisations and volunteers to organise while expanding and evidencing the positive impact of their work across Scotland?
- Awarded contract
Saltire Upgrade 2023
- Closed tender
Progress in Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2026
- Awarded contract
Education Reform Programme Support – Digital Pathfinder
- Awarded contract
Procurement Leaders Corporate Membership Agreement
- Closed tender
Refit of MRV Alba na Mara
- Awarded contract
Scottish Government Provision of Displaced Persons Crisis Travel Management 4
- Closed tender
Web Based and Proprietary Device Framework
- Expired contract
Award of Interim IT Staff Services - Senior Technical Architects
- Awarded contract
BACS Payments Processing
- Awarded contract
Enhanced Fire Risk Assessment - Building Under Remediation - Aberdeen High Rise
- Awarded contract
GFG Asset Management in Scotland (GAMIS)
- Awarded contract
Evaluation of the Child Poverty Pathfinders – Phase 2
- Awarded contract
Evaluation of the early community-level phase of the School Age Childcare Transformational Change Programme
- Expired contract
Award of Data Maturity Programme: Cohort Project 3
- Awarded contract
CivTech 7 - Challenge 7.5 - How might technology help match British Sign Language (BSL) users and their required interpreters more easily and equitably?
Top procurement categories
Categories Scottish Government has published tenders under over the last five years.
- Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security1,826£4.5bn
- Research and development services and related consultancy services997£548.3m
- IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support841£5.2bn
- Repair and maintenance services271£1.1bn
- Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services262£3.0bn
- Education and training services184£566.3m
- Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation177£526.1m
- Software package and information systems171£3.2bn
- Other community, social and personal services147£807.0m
- Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services145£379.8m
Unlock decision-makers at Scottish Government
Get direct contact details for senior stakeholders at Scottish Government so you can get your business in front of the people who actually sign off on contracts.
| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
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| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@scottish-government.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@scottish-government.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@scottish-government.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@scottish-government.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@scottish-government.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@scottish-government.gov |
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