General Practitioner Tenders and Contracts

A general practitioner services contract is an agreement for a named provider to deliver primary medical services at a specific GP practice, awarded by an NHS health board or integrated care board.

Stotles brings together general practitioner 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. GP practice contracts are commissioned practice by practice under the Provider Selection Regime, and locally commissioned services are often direct-awarded to existing practices.

GP practice contracts are scored on clinical quality, access and continuity for patients, workforce and premises plans, local knowledge and value. Many contracts are direct-awarded to the existing provider, so the expiry of the current contract is the moment to bid.

Providers must be registered with the Care Quality Commission in England or the equivalent regulator elsewhere, and GPs must be on the national performers list. Tenders usually set minimum indemnity cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar services at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Not always. The same CPV heading also covers wider primary care work, such as an urgent or out-of-hours service commissioned for a GP practice's registered patients rather than routine GP provision itself.

NHS health boards and integrated care boards commission them, usually for a single practice or a group of practices in one area.

Read commissioning intentions, service reviews, market position statements and Provider Selection Regime notices, which show general practitioner work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the commissioners behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

General practitioner notices carry 85121100 (General-practitioner services) and 85121000 (Medical practice services).