Oil and Gas Contracts and Tenders

Public sector oil and gas procurement is small and centres on research, training and regulation around the industry. It includes well plugging and abandonment research at university decommissioning centres, apprentice training for the upstream oil and gas sector, North Sea jobs and transition training services, and technical consultancy for petroleum safety regulation.

Stotles brings together oil and gas 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 public sector oil and gas notices appear on Find a Tender or Public Contracts Scotland.

Requirements depend on the work: research equipment, training and consultancy tenders each set their own technical criteria. 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.

Universities, industry training boards, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and energy regulators are the main public buyers of oil and gas related services. Operators in the North Sea buy most oil and gas services privately, outside public procurement.

Watch Department for Energy Security and Net Zero market engagement on North Sea transition programmes, university research funding announcements and industry training board plans. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Notices in this category use a mix of codes, including 43121500 (Well-testing equipment), 80000000 (Education and training services) and 71621000 (Technical analysis or consultancy services).