AI Contracts and Tenders

AI notices cover generative AI pilots, machine learning research, AI-enabled assistants and copilots, and the adoption training that goes with rolling them out. Councils, NHS trusts, universities and central government departments buy this work, almost always through general IT, software or consultancy routes rather than a dedicated AI category.

13 notices meet a precise AI contracts filter on Stotles to date, all recorded as awarded. None are open right now, and none sit at pre-tender stage, so the visible pipeline behind that figure is thin against how fast the technology is moving.

No. Many UK tender templates list innovation and AI as one line in a scoring matrix, most often inside cleaning, maintenance and facilities contracts that have nothing to do with buying AI. Searching on the bare word pulls in that boilerplate as often as it pulls in real AI work, so this page filters on AI contracts, artificial intelligence contracts and machine learning contracts specifically, rather than the bare word, to keep that noise out.

There is no dedicated CPV code for artificial intelligence. Notices that pass this page's filter carry general codes instead, most often 48000000 (Software package and information systems) and 73000000 (Research and development services and related consultancy services), alongside whatever code fits the rest of the contract.

Read buyers' AI adoption plans, digital transformation strategies and pre-market engagement notices ahead of a formal tender. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Rarely as a standalone category. AI tends to show up as a lot inside a bigger digital or software framework, such as a machine learning call-off under the CCS G-Cloud framework, or as one line inside a systems consultancy contract, rather than as its own procurement route.