Education Tenders and Contracts

Search live portals for open education tenders, or move earlier. On Stotles you can track buyer activity across schools, trusts, colleges and universities, see what is open now, and build a bid pipeline before a notice is published. For more, explore the platform.

The category spans a lot more than teaching contracts. It covers school building and refurbishment work, boiler and fire-safety upgrades, catering and cleaning, home-to-school and SEND transport, agency staffing, and software, library and publishing licences bought by colleges and universities. Department for Education construction projects and local authority school-estate work make up a large share of what is currently live.

Yes. Multi-academy trusts and buying organisations such as ESPO run frameworks covering outsourced catering, cleaning and inclusion services, and local authorities run frameworks for SEND transport and alternative provision. 44% of suppliers surveyed by Stotles say frameworks are their main route into public sector work, so these are worth tracking even outside an open tender.

Education tenders map most closely to the general education and training services classification, alongside primary school construction work for the building-projects side of the category. Neither code captures the full range of catering, transport and staffing work that also falls under education procurement.

Open counts move fast, so check the live totals on this page rather than treating any single figure as fixed. Education procurement carries a substantial award history behind it, reflecting the scale of ongoing school-estate, catering and staffing work across the sector.