Technical Tenders

Two ways in. Search the portals for notices already published, or move earlier and work from the buyer's own strategy and capital planning documents. Stotles pulls notices from 100+ portals into one place, so a technical advisor appointment on a Scottish framework and a technical due diligence survey on Find a Tender land in the same list. Platform-wide, 5,226 notices are open right now across every topic.

Four groups, mostly. Technical consultancy and technical advisor appointments on capital projects are the largest, at 1,426 and 814 notices. Technical assurance work, usually sitting beside a programme delivery partner, accounts for 520. Technical inspection and testing accounts for 344, and technical due diligence on property and site acquisitions for 136. Technical audit and technical appraisal are the small tail, at 100 and 82.

The three that recur most on this filter are 71621000 (Technical analysis or consultancy services), 71600000 (Technical testing, analysis and consultancy services) and 71318000 (Advisory and consultative engineering services). Civil and transport engineering consultancy codes turn up almost as often, because much of this work attaches to road, rail and water schemes. Codes are not used as the filter on this page. Keywords are, so notices carrying no CPV code still show up.

Already awarded, heavily. Of 4,189 notices on this filter, 2,315 are awarded contracts and 1,533 are closed tenders, against 19 open. That is what advisory procurement looks like: appointments are short, they close quickly, and the award record is the part that lasts. Platform-wide, 2,178 award notices were added in the last seven days.

Around a dozen a week on this filter. The most recent seven day window measured carried 13 new notices. The pre-tender pipeline is the better early signal, with 322 notices at pre-tender or stale pre-tender stage, and those are the ones worth reading before a specification is fixed. Platform-wide, 3,225 notices were added last week.