B2B Services Tenders
See open B2B services tenders and awarded contracts for the UK public sector.
What gets bought here is business support: SME support programmes, growth hub delivery, high street business advice, business development panels. District councils, combined authorities and enterprise agencies are the buyers, and the work is usually a fixed-term programme rather than an ongoing service.
Stotles tracks 1,237 notices on this filter, 520 of them awards and 84 at pre-tender. Little is open at any one time, so the awarded record and the early market engagement notices are where the reading is.
1,222 results
- Closed tenderPublished 4 April 2016
Business Processes and ISO Specialist Advisor
- Closed tenderPublished 1 April 2016
Development consultancy services
- Awarded contract
Development consultancy services
- Closed tenderPublished 23 March 2016
Provision of a business support programme for retail businesses across four East Kent districts
- Closed tenderPublished 23 March 2016
Provision of a business support programme for retail businesses across four East Kent districts
- Closed tenderPublished 21 March 2016
Framework Agreement for Specialist Consultants for the ERDF Funded Liverpool City Region Integrated Business Support Programme
- Closed tenderPublished 21 March 2016
Framework Agreement for Specialist Consultants for the ERDF Funded Liverpool City Region Integrated Business Support Programme
- Closed tenderPublished 21 March 2016
Marketing services
- Expired contract
Invitation to Tender For Outreach Programme for Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Growth Hub – 2016 to 2018
- Closed tenderPublished 18 March 2016
Corporate governance rating services
- Expired contract
Provision of Resource Consultant Business Support Services
- Expired contract
Specialised Business Support Services
- Expired contract
Business Support Services
- Awarded contract
Contract for the provision of a Management Operator for the Somerset Energy Innovation Centre
- Expired contract
The Provision of Telemarketing Services for the Business Growth Hub’s Green Growth Service
- Expired contract
Support Services for Bespoke Online Software for Environmental Business Support
- Closed tenderPublished 2 February 2016
LCRIBS specialist support for HR Practices and Procedure (including recruitment support)
- Closed tenderPublished 2 February 2016
LCRIBS Specialist Support for Financial Management
- Closed tenderPublished 26 January 2016
LCRIBS Specialist Support for Strategic Business Planning
- Closed tenderPublished 26 January 2016
LCRIBS Specialist Support for Environmental Performance
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions about b2b services, business support services, business support programme, business advisory services, business development services in the UK public sector.
How do I find B2B services contracts in the UK public sector?
Two ways in. Search the portals for live business support and advisory tenders, or move earlier and read the buyer before the tender exists. Stotles pulls notices from 100+ portals, and on a category this quiet the pre-tender notices matter more than the open ones: 84 of the 1,237 notices on this page are market engagement or planned procurement. Platform-wide there are 2,148 tenders open right now.
What CPV codes cover B2B services procurement?
The codes that turn up most often on these notices are 79400000 (Business and management consultancy and related services), 79411100 (Business development consultancy services) and 79900000 (Miscellaneous business and business-related services). Coding is patchy on this category. Plenty of on-intent notices carry no code at all, or a construction or training code inherited from the sector the programme serves, which is why this page filters on keywords rather than codes.
Who buys business support services, and what do the contracts look like?
District and borough councils, combined authorities and national enterprise agencies. Most of the record is programme work aimed at small businesses: SME support programmes, high street and town centre business support, growth hub delivery, and panels of consultants that a council draws down against per assignment. Awards dominate. 520 of the 1,237 notices matching this page are awarded contracts, and only a handful are open at once.
Is there much open at any one time?
No, and it is worth knowing before you build a pipeline on this category. Across every stage the filter returns 1,237 notices, but just 1 was at open tender and 2 notices were published in the last seven days. Business support gets procured in bursts, often tied to a funding round, so the useful move is to watch the buyers rather than the open list. Platform-wide, 2 notices were added last week.
What is not on this page?
Language services, translation and interpreting are left out even though they sometimes get grouped under B2B services. They have their own page and their own CPV codes. B2B marketing and PR is out too: that work sits with marketing procurement, and it is the bulk of what the bare term B2B returns. General management consultancy sits under consultancy tenders. This filter stays on business support, business advisory and business development work bought by public bodies for the businesses in their area.
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