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
- Closed tenderPublished 8 May 2019
Surrey County Council - Digital Transformation Partner
- Closed tenderPublished 29 April 2019
Building Positive Relations – Cross-Community and Intercultural Events
- Expired contract
Provision of Role Players for HSE Legal Proceedings Training and for HSE Trainee Health and Safety Inspector Recruitment Assessment Events
- Expired contract
Approved List: Beginners' Internet Training Workshops for Fastershire
- Expired contract
Organisational Health Facilitator for Museum Development East Midlands (MDEM)
- Closed tenderPublished 10 April 2019
Creative Springboard Project - Creative Sector Specialist to Design and Deliver the Creative Springboard Workshops
- Closed tenderPublished 8 March 2019
Provision of Business Related Workshop Facilitation Services to Nottingham Trent University
- Closed tenderPublished 1 March 2019
Health and social work services
- Closed tenderPublished 27 February 2019
BUSINESS START-UP SUPPORT PROGRAMME - TRAINERS
- Closed tenderPublished 19 February 2019
Provision of Role Players for HSE Legal Proceedings Training and for HSE Trainee Health and Safety Inspector Recruitment Assessment Events
- Expired contract
HR Training workshops
- Awarded contract
Proposed new Training Workshop Building at Mount Lucas
- Awarded contract
Hands on Project Manager to implement a Cloud Based Service Management Tool.
- Expired contract
Office Cleaning Services (for Birmingham office)
- Expired contract
Training services
- Closed tenderPublished 9 January 2019
Recruitment, management and delivery of training to Clinical Commissioning Group areas to participate in national roll-out of the mental health services training to lead roles in schools and colleges and NHS CYPMH services (also known as the Mental Health Services and Schools & Colleges Link programme)
- Awarded contract
Joint National Roads Intelligence Service Outline Business Case
- Closed tenderPublished 27 December 2018
Hands on Project Manager to implement a Cloud Based Service Management Tool.
- Stale Pre-tenderPublished 21 December 2018
Business and management consultancy services
- Awarded contract
Sports facilities operation services
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, 2 notices were added in the last seven days and 2,147 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, 39,865 awarded contracts expire in the next twelve months.
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