Copilot Tenders

Two ways in. Search the live notices for licence renewals and adoption support, or move earlier and read what the buyer has already written about its Microsoft estate. Platform-wide, Stotles tracks 2,198 open notices and adds 0 more each week from 100+ portals, so the pre-tender signals usually land before the tender does.

Of the 92 Copilot notices on record, 3 are open and 60 are awards. That balance means the award history and the pre-tender pipeline are the more useful place to start than the open list.

Three shapes, and only one of them is software. Licence purchases, usually Copilot seats called off against a reseller framework the buyer already holds. Consultancy to design, build, test and govern Copilot agents, which is where the larger service values sit. And training, published as digital skills, AI adoption or capability support.

In the 50 most recent notices sampled for this page, consultancy and training titles outnumber straight software supply. 60 of the 92 notices on record are awards, so there is a real body of precedent to read before bidding.

There is no AI-specific CPV code, so buyers reach for general IT and training codes. The three appearing most often alongside this page's filter are 72000000 (IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support) with 24 notices, 48000000 (Software package and information systems) with 16, and 80000000 (Education and training services) with 7.

All three are broad. Searching on the codes alone returns the whole Microsoft and IT services estate, which is why this page filters on the product name instead.

Yes, and they are a meaningful share of this market. 11 of the 92 Copilot notices on record sit at pre-tender: market engagement exercises, governance and AI readiness assessments, and requests for information where the buyer is still deciding what it needs.

That is the stage where a supplier can still shape the requirement rather than respond to it. Platform-wide, Stotles adds 0 notices a week, and pre-tender records are indexed alongside the tenders and awards.

Because buyers write the product name however it reached them. Copilot, CoPilot, Co-Pilot and Co Pilot all show up in UK notice titles, sometimes two spellings in one document, and a keyword search on one form will not return the others.

This page filters on both the closed-up and the spaced forms. That is the difference between 69 notices and 92, so it is worth checking how your own keyword alerts are set.