Workshop Tenders
See open workshop tenders and awarded contracts for the UK public sector.
Workshop procurement here means facilitated sessions bought as a service: staff training and CPD, leadership and team development, community and wellbeing sessions, facilitation for a one-off strategy exercise. Not the building: vehicle workshops and workshop equipment are a separate category, filtered out here.
413 of the 947 matching notices on record are awards and 74 are pre-tender, while the open pipeline stays in single figures. Small, short contracts. The award trail tells you more than the open list.
929 results
- Expired contract
Technology support for the mobilisation of the SONIC Labs programme
- Expired contract
HAPI Leadership Team Workshop
- Stale Pre-tenderPublished 14 April 2022
Whole system approach to predicting, preventing and responding to External Disruption, N&E Route
- Awarded contract
Future Proofed Workforce Programme - Phase 1 Specialist Providers
- Expired contract
DTI Training
- Awarded contract
TPR Auto Enrolment Reporting MI & Optimisation
- Awarded contract
TPR AE MS D365 CS Data Export Service replacement
- Awarded contract
TPR Auto Enrolment Data Architecture (Delivery)
- Awarded contract
TPR AE New case management system recommendations (assurance)
- Awarded contract
TPR Auto Enrolment Data Quality Optimisation and Integration
- Awarded contract
Apprenticeships Mental Health Wellbeing
- Awarded contract
DWP - Service Transformation Content Designer
- Expired contract
GB-Sheffield: Wellbeing workshops and services
- Closed tenderPublished 17 March 2022
Bid Process for the Provisioning of a Framework in relation to Construction Industry Health and Safety Training
- Awarded contract
Tender for Riverside Venue Catering Opportunity
- Closed tenderPublished 3 March 2022
DWP - Service Transformation Content Designer
- Awarded contract
Stroke Communication Support
- Expired contract
Leadership and Organisational Development Training
- Awarded contract
Communications FW
- Closed tenderPublished 24 February 2022
Request for Proposal Workshop Facilitators as part of the SME Productivity Scheme
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions about training workshops, facilitated workshops, workshop facilitation, online workshops, skills workshops, community workshops, leadership workshops, wellbeing workshops, team workshops in the UK public sector.
How do I find workshop contracts in the UK public sector?
Two routes. Search the portals for live workshop tenders, or move earlier and watch the buyers who keep commissioning them. Stotles pulls notices from 100+ portals into one search, so a facilitated workshop advertised by a college, a council or a central government department all land in the same list. Platform-wide, 0 notices were added in the last seven days and 2,137 are open now.
What kinds of workshops does the public sector buy?
Staff training and CPD is the bulk of it: 135 of the 947 matching notices carry CPV 80500000 (Training services). Beyond that, leadership and team development for senior teams, community and cultural sessions run with residents, wellbeing and resilience workshops commissioned by health and social care buyers, and facilitation for a single strategy or co-design exercise. Lot structures vary. Some notices split one programme into individual mini-workshops; others sit inside a wider training framework.
Which CPV codes cover workshop tenders?
The sample of 50 notices behind this page is dominated by training codes. Alongside the keyword filter, 80500000 (Training services) appears on 135 notices, 80511000 (Staff training services) on 44, and 80522000 (Training seminars) on 38. Codes are deliberately not applied as a filter here: the search AND-combines stored codes with keywords, which would drop every on-intent notice carrying no code or a neighbouring one.
Are workshop contracts worth bidding for as a small supplier?
This category suits a sole facilitator or a small consultancy better than a large provider. 413 of the 947 notices on record are awards, so there is a long trail of who won what and which buyers come back for a second round. Stotles' 2026 Supplier Benchmark Report found 58% of government contracts fall in the £50k to £1m bracket, and workshop packages sit at the smaller end of public buying. Very few sit open at once, so waiting for a live tender is the slow way in.
How far ahead can I see workshop opportunities?
74 of the 947 matching notices are pre-tender: early notices, pipeline entries and market engagement that name a requirement before any competition opens. That is where the useful time is in a category this fast-moving. Buyer strategy documents and budget files add more, since a training or organisational development plan usually names the workshops it intends to commission before a notice appears. Platform-wide, 39,710 awarded contracts expire in the next twelve months.
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