Foreign Economic Aid Related Tenders and Contracts

Foreign economic aid related procurement covers international development and humanitarian programmes funded through the UK overseas aid budget. That includes monitoring, evaluation and learning for aid portfolios, due diligence on delivery partners, technical assistance for partner governments and economic growth programmes overseas.

Stotles brings together foreign economic aid tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office publishes aid programmes on Find a Tender and its own eSourcing portal, and some due diligence is called off the Crown Commercial Service audit and assurance framework.

Aid programme suppliers must meet the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's supply partner code of conduct, including safeguarding and anti-fraud requirements, and handle data in line with UK data protection law. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar programmes at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Official development assistance, or ODA, is spending counted as overseas aid and aimed at the economic development and welfare of developing countries. Non-ODA programmes cover UK-interest work such as trade and growth projects, which the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office also tenders, so notices for either can sit in the same search.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office buys much of the work, including regular awards for portfolio evaluation and economic growth programmes. Other bodies such as the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science run development-funded programmes too, for example under the Blue Planet Fund.

Read Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office business plans, programme business cases, country development strategies and preliminary market engagement notices, which show aid programme work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

The main code is 75211200 (Foreign economic-aid-related services), with 75210000 (Foreign affairs and other services) also used. Aid notices are often classified more loosely, such as 79419000 (Evaluation consultancy services), 71356200 (Technical assistance services) or 73000000 (Research and development services and related consultancy services), so a keyword search catches more than a code does.