Veterinary Tenders and Contracts

Contracts include on-call veterinary cover for police animals, official veterinary surgeon checks at ports and airports, contingency veterinarians for disease outbreaks, farm and livestock veterinary services, and veterinary equipment for university teaching hospitals.

Stotles brings together veterinary 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. Disease and biosecurity advice is let by agriculture departments as multi-year service contracts, and universities tender veterinary imaging equipment as capital purchases.

Veterinary surgeons must be registered with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and official veterinarians need authorisation from the relevant government agency. Tenders usually set minimum professional indemnity insurance, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar services at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Police forces buy veterinary care for police dogs and horses. Local councils, government agriculture departments, universities and border control agencies also procure veterinary services.

Read animal disease contingency plans, port and airport border control arrangements, police dog and horse welfare policies and regulator site licence renewals, which signal veterinary demand ahead of a notice. Pre-tender engagement notices, particularly for outbreak cover, often come first. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Veterinary notices carry 85200000 (Veterinary services), often alongside 77500000 (Animal husbandry services) for disease outbreak cover and 71900000 (Laboratory services) for named veterinary surgeon work at regulated sites.