Team Tenders and Contracts

Team tenders cover services bought to improve a team that already exists, as opposed to hiring one. The recurring shapes are team coaching for senior leadership teams, team effectiveness and high performance team workshops, executive team development programmes, psychometric and diagnostic assessment tools, and residential team building activities. Several awards were made without competition, one on the grounds that only one supplier held the rights to the assessment tool the buyer wanted.

Stotles brings together team 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. Team development is usually a one-off appointment of a coach or facilitator for a named senior team, with some awards made directly where only one provider holds the assessment tool the buyer wants.

Psychometric and team profiling tools usually need accredited practitioners, and coaches are often asked for membership of a recognised coaching body. 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.

Open team tenders are few at any one moment against a much larger pool of awards, so this is a category to track rather than to wait on. The more useful signal is expiry, printed on the award notice.

Councils, NHS trusts, fire and rescue services, universities and central government agencies all appear, and the buying function is usually organisational development or learning and development inside a larger body.

Read workforce and training plans, learning strategies, framework renewals and expiry dates for existing contracts, which show team 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.

Team notices carry 79998000 (Coaching services), 80532000 (Management training services) and 79633000 (Staff development services).