UK Public Sector Leads by Department
Direct access to new contracts, projects, tenders, and supply opportunities across the UK Public Sector by Key Departments here: (updated daily)
CCS - Crown Commercial Service
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is an executive agency of the Cabinet Office of the UK Government. The CCS is responsible for managing the procurement of common goods and services across the Public Sector. CCS's operations, include a range of framework agreements, which are pre-tendered and through which public sector customers can purchase goods and services without going through the normal tender process.
YPO
YPO supplies products and services to a wide range of customers including schools, local authorities, charities, emergency services, public sector and other businesses such as nurseries and care homes. YPO is 100% publicly owned, by 13 local authorities, with a large choice of products available from leading UK suppliers, supplying around 23,000 products through 100 frameworks.
Crescent Purchasing Consortium
Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC) provides purchasing frameworks, dynamic purchasing systems (DPS) and procurement consultancy services for schools, academies, colleges, universities and other educational organisations.
UPC - Universities Purchasing Consortium
Access the six UK purchasing consortia, which have come together for the procurement of products and services for Universities and Colleges across the UK regions.
NHS Supply
Procurement frameworks are agreements that enable NHS organisations to buy services and goods from one or more supplier and last a maximum of four years before a tender for a new framework is published. You can access the calendar for an overview of upcoming tender activities here. You can also find upcoming Health tenders and opportunities at:
Find a Tender for high-value opportunities;
Public Contracts Scotland;
Sell2Wales;
eSourcing NI and eTendersNI for Northern
Ireland.
NHS Supply Chain also supports the National Health Service in England and Wales, by providing procurement and logistics services: https://www.supplychain.nhs.uk/categories/facilities-and-office-solutions
Defence Sourcing Portal
The Defence Sourcing Portal (DSP) is the official source of MOD contract opportunities. The DSP is the e-sourcing platform and one-stop-shop for contract opportunities, tendering and information on doing business with the Ministry of Defence. MOD contract opportunities will be advertised and tendered on this platform. Alternatively, find every defence opportunity in the UK as well as consolidating defence, BLUE LIGHT, and civil contract and award notices from over 3,000 individual sources here: https://www.supply2defencetenders.com/supply2defence-vs-defence-supplier-portal/
Dept of Transport
DfT (central) (or DfTc) procurement policy is to compete using the Crown Commercial Service framework agreements for much of its sourcing activities. When no established framework agreement exists, the procurement policy is to advertise all opportunities via Contracts Finder where the value of the procurement opportunity is above £12,000 and Find a Tender service (FTS) where the value of the procurement opportunity is above procurement thresholds