Development Tenders and Contracts

Development tenders cover everything between a single front-end developer called off a staffing framework and a full website and portal build. Front-end and back-end development are both well represented, full stack work is common, and portal builds are a steady stream of their own. Named stacks show up too, particularly Drupal, WordPress and JavaScript.

Stotles brings together web and software development tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Much development work is called off from G-Cloud and Digital Outcomes and Specialists, so many opportunities reach only suppliers already listed.

Development suppliers usually win public sector work through frameworks rather than open competition, by joining digital delivery frameworks with a web development lot and then competing for call-offs under them.

Buyers handling personal data check data protection and information security arrangements, and public sector websites and apps must meet accessibility requirements. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

The individual roles mostly come through temporary and interim IT staffing frameworks, while larger builds run as G-Cloud and digital services call-offs or as lots in multi-supplier frameworks. Central government departments, Scottish public bodies, universities and colleges, councils, NHS bodies and Irish state agencies are regular buyers of development work.

Read digital and technology strategies, licence and contract renewal dates, architecture reviews and early market engagement notices, which show development work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Development tenders carry 72000000 (IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support), 72212517 (IT software development services) and 72212224 (Web page editing software development services). Contract developers bought through staffing arrangements carry 79620000 (Supply services of personnel including temporary staff).