Identity Tenders

Search live identity notices on Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and the devolved portals, or get in earlier. Stotles reads buyer strategy papers and IT budget documents alongside the notices, so an identity governance rebuild often shows up as a market engagement notice months before the tender. Platform-wide, 2 notices are added to Stotles each week from 100+ portals.

Four things, mostly. Identity governance and administration platforms that manage joiners, movers and leavers. Privileged access management for admin accounts. Identity verification and document checking services, which is where central government and its agencies buy heavily. And the consultancy and integration work that sits around a platform replacement.

Identity notices most often carry CPV 48000000 (Software package and information systems) and 72000000 (IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support). Narrower work also appears under 72222300 (Information technology services). The codes are broad IT classifications rather than identity-specific ones, so searching by keyword finds far more than searching by code.

463 identity contracts are recorded as awarded on Stotles to date, out of 868 notices logged across every stage. Another 75 sit at pre-tender stage. Very little is open for bidding at any given moment, so the pre-tender notices and the award expiry dates are the more useful signals here.