Development Tenders
See open development tenders and awarded contracts for the UK public sector. The filter behind this page matches 1,118 notices mentioning front-end, back-end, full stack, portal, Drupal, WordPress or JavaScript development, and 398 of them are already awarded.
Two kinds of buying sit side by side here. Some notices are whole builds: a council website, an online schools portal, a headless content management system. Others are one developer role called off a staffing framework. Read the title before you read the value.
1,114 results
- Awarded contract
RBGKEW1038 Development & Support of RBG Kew's Digital estate
- Closed tenderPublished 4 July 2022
Occupational Maps - Development and Live
- Awarded contract
Requirement for a new Web-Based Portal using Tableau/Azure/PowerBi
- Awarded contract
Design, implement and support essex.gov.uk using the LocalGov Drupal platform
- Awarded contract
DWP Digital Debt Management - Product Design and Development Services
- Closed tenderPublished 14 June 2022
Data Hub Managed Service Team
- Closed tenderPublished 1 June 2022
Secure by Design (SbD)
- Stale Pre-tenderPublished 27 May 2022
Early Engagement Supplier Event - Digital and Publishing Services at The National Archives
- Expired contract
Software Development Support
- Closed tenderPublished 24 May 2022
WLBP Vet Portal – Development of Analytical, Benchmarking and Reporting Tools
- Awarded contract
Design and Redevelopment of University of Chester’s Corporate Website
- Awarded contract
Design and Redevelopment of University of Chester's Corporate Website
- Closed tenderPublished 20 May 2022
Centre for Advancing Practice Portal Development 22/23
- Closed tenderPublished 17 May 2022
Cyber Virtual Learning Environment Team
- Awarded contract
Ofsted Digital Services for Alpha/Beta Service Developments
- Closed tenderPublished 6 May 2022
Rebuilding Leeds City Council Web Estate on the Drupal platform to be hosted on AWS
- Closed tenderPublished 4 May 2022
North of Tyne Combined Authority and North East LEP Wave 3 Skills Bootcamp
- Closed tenderPublished 4 May 2022
Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) Support - STA 0294/ Jaggaer Ref: Project_6030
- Awarded contract
Contracted out managed services for Ingres and OpenROAD support
- Closed tenderPublished 26 April 2022
e-HR Technical and Service Management support for Judicial Office (JO)
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions about front-end development, back-end development, full stack development, portal development, backend development, frontend development, drupal development, wordpress development, javascript development, progressive web app in the UK public sector.
What kind of development work do public sector buyers tender for?
Everything between a single front-end developer called off a staffing framework and a full website and portal build. Within this filter, 515 notices mention front-end development, 369 mention back-end development and 209 mention full stack work. Portal builds are a steady stream of their own at 111 notices, and named stacks show up too: 49 for Drupal, 21 for WordPress, 20 for JavaScript.
How many development contracts have already been awarded?
398 of the 1,118 notices in this filter are award notices, so most of this work has already been placed. Awarded records still repay reading. They name the incumbent and the expiry date, which is what tells you when the work comes back round. Platform-wide, 40,338 awarded contracts expire in the next twelve months.
Why do so few development notices show as open?
This work is bought in bursts, and the awarded and closed records outnumber the live ones by a wide margin: 398 notices in this filter are awarded and 15 sit at pre-tender, against almost none currently open. Set an alert rather than refreshing a search. Platform-wide, 2 notices were added last week across every category.
Are CPV codes a reliable way to find development tenders?
Not on their own. The notices here carry a wide spread of codes: 93 sit under 72000000 (IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support), 34 under 72413000 (World wide web (www) site design services) and 23 under 79620000 (Supply services of personnel including temporary staff). That last one matters. A real slice of this market is contract developer resource rather than a software purchase.
How do suppliers usually win public sector development work?
Through frameworks more often than through open competition. 44% of suppliers told the 2026 Stotles Supplier Survey that frameworks are their main route to market, and the notices bear that out: digital delivery frameworks with a web development lot, then call-offs against them. Stotles indexes notices from 100+ portals, so the call-offs surface alongside the parent agreement.
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