Public Contracts Scotland (PCS): Scottish public sector tender notices

Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) is the Scottish Government's national advertising portal for public sector contract opportunities, hosted at publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk. It is the one-stop shop where Scottish public sector buyers publish regulated tenders and where suppliers browse or register for alerts.

PCS is the notice board where opportunities are advertised. PCS-Tender is a separate secure system, hosted at publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk, that buyers and suppliers use to run tender exercises online, including Single Procurement Document responses, evaluation, and contract and supplier performance management. Registration on each system is separate, but users can activate integrated single sign-on between them.

From 24 February 2025, above threshold Scottish procurements are published on both PCS and the UK-wide Find a Tender service. Below threshold notices for Scotland stay on PCS. Contracts Finder covers below threshold notices for England and other non-devolved territories, not Scotland.

Under the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, all regulated procurements at or above £50,000 excluding VAT for goods and services, and £2,000,000 for works, must be advertised on PCS. Under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, for procurements commencing on or after 1 January 2026, higher thresholds including VAT are £135,018 for Schedule 1 bodies' goods and services, £207,720 for other bodies, and £5,193,000 for works.

Contract notices, contract award notices, and Quick Quotes for lower value procurements. Main contractors on public sector work also advertise sub-contract opportunities on the site, and many buying organisations publish their contract registers there.

All Scottish public sector buying organisations. That includes national bodies procuring through Procurement Scotland (Category A), sectoral centres of expertise such as APUC, Scotland Excel and NHS National Procurement (Category B), regional consortia including the Tayside Procurement Consortium (Category C1), and individual public bodies buying for their own needs (Category C).

Suppliers register at publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk to create a company profile and receive automatic e-mail alerts about relevant opportunities, sub-contract opportunities, and contract awards. Suppliers eligible for Quick Quotes need a basic company profile, and can complete an enhanced Supplier Finder Profile to give buyers more detail about the goods, works or services they offer.