Talent Tenders

Two routes. Watch the portals for open talent tenders, or move earlier and work the buyer before a specification exists. Stotles pulls notices from 100+ portals into one feed, so the awards, the pre-tender notices and the strategy documents behind them sit in one place. Platform-wide, 2,146 tenders are open right now.

Start with the awarded contracts on this page: 407 of the 844 talent notices on record are awards, and their expiry dates tell you when the work comes round again.

Police forces, universities, central government departments, devolved administrations and sector skills bodies all appear in the notice sample behind this page. The requirements fall into three rough shapes: assessment and psychometrics, leadership and talent development cohorts, and regional programmes built to feed a pipeline into one sector.

Recruitment process outsourcing and applicant tracking software sit at the edge of this topic. Those are usually bought under recruitment or staffing headings instead.

Talent notices most often carry CPV 80000000 (Education and training services), 79600000 (Recruitment services) and 72590000 (Computer-related professional services), the last of those mainly on digital and technology skills programmes. Measured against the keyword filter for this page, 80000000 returns 149 notices, 79600000 returns 124 and 72590000 returns 18.

Codes are not applied as a filter here. Plenty of on-intent talent notices carry no code at all, so filtering on them would drop results a supplier wants to see.

Not many. Across every stage the corpus holds 844 talent notices, but only 3 sit at the open tender stage, because much of this work arrives as a framework call-off rather than an advertised competition. Pre-tender is the more useful signal here: 79 notices sit at that stage, which is early enough for a supplier to shape what gets specified.

Platform-wide, 2 notices were added in the last seven days.

Recruitment and staffing tenders buy the supply of people: agency workers, permanent hires, executive search. Talent tenders buy the capability around that, so assessment centres, leadership cohorts, succession and talent management programmes, and skills pipelines into a sector.

The two overlap in practice and a single framework often covers both, so it is worth watching the recruitment and staffing pages alongside this one.