Refugee Support Tenders and Contracts

Refugee procurement covers resettlement and integration support for families arriving under government resettlement schemes, employability programmes, English language provision, and advice and casework. Therapeutic and mental health services, school mentoring for families, and accommodation-based support that prevents homelessness once refugee status is granted come up too, along with furnishing homes for arrived families.

Stotles brings together refugee 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. Refugee support mostly runs as single-supplier contracts and light-touch frameworks split into lots by type of support, often commissioned through strategic migration partnerships.

Refugee services working with children or vulnerable adults need DBS checks and safeguarding policies, and immigration advice must be given by OISC-registered advisers. 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.

Local authorities and combined authorities do most of the buying, often through a strategic migration partnership that covers several councils at once. NHS commissioning bodies pick up the therapeutic and employability pieces. Many notices are awards, so incumbents and expiry dates are visible before you commit to a bid.

Read strategic migration partnership plans, resettlement scheme funding allocations, homelessness strategies and expiry dates for existing support contracts, which show refugee 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.

Refugee work maps mostly to CPV 85310000 (Social work services) and 85320000 (Social services), with 98200000 (Equal opportunities consultancy services) turning up on the employability contracts. Coding is patchy, and plenty of notices carry only the top-level 85000000 (Health and social work services), or no code at all.