IoT Contracts and Tenders

Anything built around networked sensors or connected hardware rather than conventional IT: smart sensor pilots for flood and asset monitoring, industrial IoT for engineering training, LoRaWAN connectivity trials, and smart-places or connected-environment deployments. Buyers write "Internet of Things" out in full far more often than the acronym, so the filter here follows that phrasing.

A handful of the largest UK government telecoms frameworks, worth billions in ceiling value, list IoT as one lot among ten or more alongside voice, network and contact centre services. Those framework notices are real matches for the IoT keyword filter, but the framework itself is not an IoT-specific procurement; read the individual notice rather than judging scale from the framework value alone.

There are 6 IoT contracts open for bids to date, alongside 164 already awarded and 52 sitting at pre-tender stage. Platform-wide, 2,163 tenders are open across all sectors right now.

Councils buy smart sensor and connected-places pilots, often funded through central government innovation programmes, for flood monitoring, street lighting and asset tracking. NHS bodies buy connected healthcare environments and remote monitoring. Central government departments procure IoT capability as a lot inside broader telecoms and network frameworks, and further education colleges buy industrial IoT kit for engineering courses.