Virtual Tenders and Contracts

Virtual tenders cover virtual reality (VR) technology: training platforms, headsets, simulators and immersive learning environments bought as equipment or training services.

Stotles brings together virtual 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. Virtual reality is mostly bought as one-off headset and simulator purchases by emergency services and universities, with some therapy and training content bought as a service.

Headsets and simulators must carry UKCA or CE marking, and VR therapy and training content used with patients or offenders must handle personal data under UK data protection law. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar supply contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

A meaningful share of VR notices are call-offs under wider training, technology or equipment frameworks rather than standalone tenders, so a VR purchase can appear as one line inside a larger procurement rather than its own competition.

Police and fire services, NHS trusts, universities and local councils run most of the VR tenders, typically for training simulators, headsets for trauma or behaviour-change work, and welding, dental or driving simulation.

Read digital and technology strategies, licence and contract renewal dates, architecture reviews and early market engagement notices, which show virtual 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.

The most common codes are 34150000 (Simulators) and 34152000 (Training simulators), alongside general audio-visual and multimedia equipment codes such as 32322000 (Multimedia equipment). Buyers rarely file VR work under one dedicated code, so most notices combine one of these with a broader IT, training or medical equipment code.