Mobile App Tenders and Contracts

Mobile app tenders and contracts cover work to design, build, replatform or keep running a native or cross-platform app for phones and tablets, as distinct from a wider website, portal or back-office system that only mentions an app in passing. Typical notices ask for a new build from scratch, a rebuild once the original development framework is retired, or a support-and-maintenance contract for an app already live with users. Buyers run this as its own procurement more often than as one line inside a bigger IT contract, usually managed by the in-house digital or IT team.

Stotles brings together mobile app 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. Mobile app development is mostly bought through the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework and G-Cloud, from small pilots to multi-year development partnerships.

Public sector apps must meet the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018 and handle personal data in line with UK data protection law. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Most mobile app work reaches the market through an existing framework rather than a fresh open procedure, with the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework accounting for a recurring share of the delivery-partner contracts alongside general IT services frameworks. A contract is as likely to be a multi-year support-and-development retainer as a one-off build, often let alongside a parallel website contract with the same supplier.

Mobile app contracts range from small pilots to multi-year development partnerships, and some sit inside wider digital or data capability contracts. Call-offs from the Digital Outcomes and Specialists and G-Cloud frameworks are a common route. Universities, central government departments, environmental and regulatory agencies, town councils and public works bodies are the buyers of mobile apps.

Read digital strategies, discovery-phase briefs, app store and framework retirement dates and preliminary market engagement notices, which show mobile app work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the digital teams behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Mobile app notices carry 72421000 (Internet or intranet client application development services) and 72200000 (Software programming and consultancy services).