Coaching Tenders and Contracts

Coaching tenders cover executive coaching, leadership coaching, health and wellbeing coaching, and staff or personal development coaching commissioned by public sector employers. They also include coaching delivered as part of wider training, leadership development or organisational change contracts.

Stotles brings together coaching 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. Coaching and leadership development are often called off from learning and development frameworks, so some opportunities reach only providers already on them.

Coaching tenders are scored on coach accreditation and experience, the coaching approach, matching and evaluation, and price per session or programme. Buyers often appoint a pool of coaches, so getting onto the pool comes before winning individual assignments.

Coaches working with children or vulnerable adults need safeguarding checks, and buyers often ask for accreditation with a professional coaching body. 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.

Coaching is tendered as a standalone contract, awarded through direct award or call-off from an existing framework, or included as a lot inside a broader leadership development or training programme. Notices include single-coach engagements and multi-year coaching frameworks alike.

NHS trusts and integrated care boards, councils, central government departments and regulators are regular buyers. They commission coaching for senior leaders, managers and staff going through organisational change, and health coaching for residents and patients.

Read leadership development plans, workforce and organisational change strategies, integrated care board commissioning intentions and market engagement notices, which show 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.

Coaching has no CPV code of its own. Leadership and workforce coaching is classified under training codes, while health and wellbeing coaching carries 85100000 (Health services), 85323000 (Community health services) and 85000000 (Health and social work services).