AI Agent Tenders and Contracts

An AI agent tender is a contract for an autonomous or semi-autonomous AI system that carries out tasks on a buyer's behalf, distinct from a general AI or chatbot procurement. These notices cover Microsoft Copilot Agents, Salesforce Agentforce, Blue Prism digital worker licences, and bespoke agentic AI development, most delivered as call-offs under existing IT frameworks.

Stotles brings together AI agent 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. Most AI agent and digital worker contracts are called off from G-Cloud and other technology frameworks, so many opportunities reach only suppliers already listed.

AI agent tenders are scored on the use case and delivery approach, security and data handling, governance and responsible AI, and price. Many buyers start with a proof of concept, so delivering a successful pilot is often the route to a wider rollout.

AI systems handling personal data must comply with UK data protection law, and government buyers expect suppliers to follow published guidance on the safe and responsible use of AI. 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.

Regulators and central government bodies such as Ofgem, the Financial Conduct Authority and GOV.UK have been early buyers, alongside NHS organisations and local authorities deploying digital worker licences for back-office automation. Policing bodies have also procured AI agents for public-contact and case-management work.

Read AI and digital strategies, automation business cases, licence renewal dates for existing automation platforms and early market engagement notices, which show AI agent 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.

There is no CPV code specific to AI agents yet. Notices carry general IT codes instead, most often 72000000 (IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support).