Forecasting Tenders and Contracts

Demand forecasting is the biggest slice of forecasting work. NHS trusts model demand and capacity for new facilities, transport bodies forecast passenger and vehicle numbers, councils project housing need. Financial forecasting is the other half: budget and revenue projections for finance teams. Some notices commission a one-off model from consultants, others buy forecasting software as a package.

Stotles brings together forecasting 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. Forecasting software is often bought through G-Cloud, and winter weather forecasting through regional winter bureau frameworks.

Forecasting work handling personal or commercially sensitive data must comply with UK data protection law, and models used for central government appraisal are expected to follow HM Treasury guidance. 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.

Frameworks matter most at the software and consultancy end. Forecasting work often reaches a supplier as a call-off under a wider data, finance or transport advisory agreement rather than as its own open tender, so the agreement a supplier needs to be on may already be awarded.

Weather forecasting is bought as annual or multi-year contracts, sometimes called off a regional winter bureau framework, while financial forecasting tools have been bought through G-Cloud. Councils, environment bodies, transport operators, NHS trusts and housing associations are among the buyers.

Read finance system replacement plans, winter service plans, demand and capacity reviews and early market engagement notices, which show forecasting 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.

Forecasting notices carry 48460000 (Analytical, scientific, mathematical or forecasting software package) and 72212462 (Mathematical or forecasting software development services). Passenger and traffic forecasting lands under 71311200 (Transport systems consultancy services), and coding is patchy across forecasting notices.