Motion Picture and Video Production Tenders and Contracts

Public sector buyers commission short promotional and information films, animated explainers, training videos, graduation and awards ceremony filming, project progress and case study videos, and clips cut for social media. Photography is often bundled into the same contract, and larger buyers set up multi-supplier videography frameworks and call work off them through mini-competitions.

Stotles brings together video production 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. Video production is often called off from multi-supplier videography and creative services frameworks, and single films are bought as direct contracts or quotations.

Video production tenders are scored on creative approach, showreel quality, accessibility, production plan and price. Repeat buyers use frameworks, so a framework place opens up regular commissions.

Public sector video must meet the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018 with subtitles and transcripts, and filming people needs consent handled 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.

Not always. Plenty of the work is a single commission for one film or a short series, bought as a direct contract or a request for quotation. Frameworks matter for repeat buyers such as universities, councils and national bodies, which appoint a panel of videographers or creative agencies and then run mini-competitions or direct awards from it for the life of the agreement.

Councils, universities and colleges, central government departments and their agencies, NHS bodies, museums and cultural institutions, transport and infrastructure bodies, and arts and heritage funders buy film and video production. The buying team is almost always communications or marketing, and the brief is usually tied to a campaign, an event, a programme launch or a public information need.

Read communications and marketing plans, campaign calendars, event schedules and framework renewal dates for creative services, which show work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the communications teams behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Video production notices carry 92111000 (Motion picture and video production services), and event filming often carries event or cultural service codes.