Programme Tenders and Contracts

Four clusters show up repeatedly in the notices. Health and wellbeing programmes from councils and NHS bodies, including outreach services and low-intensity CBT provision. Skills, mentoring and enterprise programmes run through local enterprise offices and growth deals. Education programmes, including undergraduate and further education provision. And programme delivery partner roles, where the buyer is procuring the management of a large capital or transformation programme rather than the content of it.

Stotles brings together programme 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. Programme work is mostly commissioned as lotted services or mentor panels, and delivery partner roles are often called off from consultancy frameworks.

Programme providers working with children or vulnerable adults need DBS checks and safeguarding policies, and must handle participant data in line with UK data protection law. Tenders usually set minimum insurance 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.

Programme work is mostly commissioned as lotted services or mentor panels, and delivery partner roles are often called off from consultancy frameworks. Councils, NHS bodies, local enterprise offices and combined authorities buy the community programmes, while central government departments and public agencies appoint delivery partners.

Read corporate strategies, public health plans, skills and enterprise funding allocations and expiry dates for existing programmes, which show programme 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.

Programme notices carry 80000000 (Education and training services), 85000000 (Health and social work services) and 80521000 (Training programme services).