Web Tenders and Contracts

Website procurement covers website design and build, redesign and redevelopment, content management systems, web hosting, and ongoing support and maintenance. Buyers tender these as separate contracts or bundle design, hosting and support into one managed service, and some tender brand identity and website work together.

Stotles brings together website 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. The Digital Marketplace lists digital outcomes and specialists opportunities, and councils, colleges and housing associations often tender smaller website builds through their own portals.

Website tenders are scored on design and user experience, accessibility, content management features, security, and the quality of hosting and support, alongside price. Bids that show similar public sector sites, a clear migration plan and how editors will update content day to day tend to score well, and many buyers ask for a design presentation at final stage.

Public sector websites must meet the accessibility requirements of the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018, so buyers ask for evidence of accessible design and testing, and personal data handling must comply with UK data protection law. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Some do. Councils and arm's-length bodies have called off website development, hosting and support work from the Crown Commercial Service Digital Specialists and Programmes framework. Plenty of buyers still run a standalone open tender instead, particularly smaller councils and single-site rebuilds.

Colleges, universities, councils, housing associations, regulators, NHS bodies and central government departments buy websites. Charities and cultural bodies funded from public money also tender new sites, and Irish education and training boards publish many website tenders.

Track the expiry dates of hosting and support contracts, website redesign plans and preliminary market engagement notices, which show web 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 core codes are 72413000 (World wide web (www) site design services) and 72415000 (World wide web (www) site operation host services). Related codes seen on website notices include 72212224 (Web page editing software development services), 72400000 (Internet services) and 72000000 (IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support).