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Public tenders in Scotland
Scottish public bodies buy under Scotland's own procurement regime, publishing on Public Contracts Scotland - with lower thresholds (£50k goods/services) that pull more contracts into formal publication.
Open notices a firm like yours can bid for, pulled from major GB public-sector sources and refreshed daily. You only need the right ones.
£10.6bn+
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A taste of what's live
The most recently published open tenders naming Scotland:
COM 09 Floating Turbine Towing Challenges
ORE Catapult · £60,000 · closes 10 Sept · Find a Tender
Strong fit · 8/10Example score - once we know your business, Scotland work like this is scored to your trade, scale and distance from base, with a written reason and a bid / no-bid call before you commit a day. The free gov portals just list it.
EHRC 2627-17 Wales Equality Objective Research
Equality and Human Rights Commission · £20,000 · closes 2 Sept · Find a Tender
Trend BEMS Comprehensive Maintenance, Replacement and Upgrade Works
University Of Edinburgh · £2,500,000 · closes 7 Sept · Find a Tender
Supply, Delivery and Installation of High Accuracy Motion Control and Imaging System
University of Strathclyde · closes 7 Sept · Find a Tender
Discovery Point Transformed - Capital Project Manager Procurement
Dundee Industrial Heritage SCIO (Dundee Heritage Trust) · £250,000 · closes 4 Sept · Find a Tender
Partick Housing Association: CHP and Power System Servicing and Reactive Maintenance Works
Partick Housing Association Ltd. · closes 4 Sept · Find a Tender
Example score shown for illustration. Your own matches are scored to your business once you add it - free, no card.
Closing soon in Scotland
Open now, deadline within three weeks - soonest first. Miss the date and you miss the contract.
- 1 day
Edgeband & CNC Machine
City Building (Glasgow) LLP · Find a Tender
- 1 day
Strathclyde Pharma Solutions Equipment Service & Maintenance
University of Strathclyde · Find a Tender
- 1 day
R&M and Voids Framework
Key Housing Association · Find a Tender
- 1 day
PURCH2736 Framework for the Provision of Grounds Consumables and Tools
University of Glasgow · Find a Tender
- 1 day
Statutory Maintenance and Reactive Repairs of Powered Pedestrian Access Doors (including Reactive Repairs to Door Entry and Access Control Systems)
Renfrewshire Council · Find a Tender
- 2 days
Internal-External Decoration, Forress and Grantown(Hanover Developments)
Hanover (Scotland) Housing Association Ltd · Find a Tender
Add your business and BidSquirrel tracks every Scotland deadline for you, flags the ones that fit, and helps you win them - free to start.
How Scotland buys, and who buys
Scotland runs its own procurement regime, so the centre of gravity is different from the rest of the UK. Almost every regulated opportunity is advertised on Public Contracts Scotland (PCS), and many buyers then run the tender itself through PCS-Tender, the national eTendering system funded by the Scottish Government. Registering on both, and setting category alerts, is the baseline for watching the Scottish market.
Scottish thresholds are lower than the UK-wide ones - regulated procurement starts at around £50k for goods and services - so more work is published formally rather than handled by quiet quotes. Collaborative buying runs largely through Scotland Excel for the councils and APUC for the universities and colleges, so getting onto the frameworks that matter, alongside bidding for open notices, is how a smaller supplier builds a steady Scottish pipeline.
Public buyers concentrated here
Portals & frameworks that serve Scotland
The smallest work often never reaches a national portal at all, living instead as invitation-only quick quotes on the regional systems. We watch every source so Scotland notices reach you in one place, not one portal at a time.
Guides for Scotland bidders
New to bidding? Start with our free SME’s guide to winning public-sector contracts.
Browse Scotland tenders by industry
Narrow to your trade or service - each industry page covers how the work is bought, the buyers and frameworks, and what is live now.
Social value Scotland buyers reward
Public buyers here often score social value at 10-30% of the marks. The priorities that recur across Scotland:
- Fair Work First - especially paying at least the real Living Wage (currently the flagship, most-scored theme). The six criteria are: real Living Wage, effective worker voice (e.g. union recognition), investment in workforce development, no inappropriate use of zero-hours contracts, action on the gender pay gap / a more diverse workplace, and flexible/family-friendly working from day one. Real Living Wage can even be a pass/fail exclusion where the buyer has mandated it.
- Community benefits - concrete, additional local outcomes delivered THROUGH the contract: jobs and apprenticeships for local/unemployed people, work placements, training, spend with local SMEs and the third sector, community projects and use of supported businesses. This is Scotland's equivalent of 'social value' and flows from the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 sustainable procurement duty.
- Community Wealth Building - keeping money and jobs circulating in the local economy via shorter/local supply chains, higher SME and micro-business spend, and support for social enterprises. Now on a statutory footing (Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Act 2025), pioneered by North Ayrshire; increasingly expected by councils and health boards.
Quick wins you can commit to
- Commit to pay at least the real Living Wage to everyone working on the contract, and say so plainly - this is the single highest-signal, most-scored (sometimes pass/fail) Fair Work commitment in Scotland, and as a small local employer it is often easy for you to evidence.
- Offer one or two concrete, countable community benefits tied to the contract's scale - e.g. 'one local apprenticeship or work placement', a set number of hours of local recruitment, or a small community project - and name who, where and when. Specific and modest beats vague and ambitious.
- Show your Fair Work basics: no inappropriate zero-hours contracts, a real channel for worker voice, and support for staff training/development. Even an informal but genuine written policy, honestly described, scores better than boilerplate.
On any live tender, BidSquirrel writes your social value in the buyer's own framework and scoring style, tuned to what they reward. See your matches free.
Or get the Scotland tenders that fit you
BidSquirrel watches major GB sources daily and scores each tender against your business - trade, scale, distance from your base, eligibility. Pick one and it builds the full draft answer by answer from your own evidence, then stress-tests it against the criteria and hands it back to you with the facts to confirm. 188 live tenders in Scotland right now; you only need the right ones.
And when it comes to the number, we help you price the bid to win - a costed build-up and the value-for-money case, the axis no SME rival covers.
See what you could winScotland tenders: common questions
Where are Scotland public sector tenders advertised?
Above-threshold contracts in Scotland are published on Find a Tender, while below-threshold and council work is spread across Public Contracts Scotland (PCS), PCS-Tender, Scotland Excel. BidSquirrel watches these major sources and brings Scotland notices into one feed, each scored to your business.
How do I find low-value council work in Scotland?
Much of the low-value local-authority work in Scotland never reaches a national portal - it lives as Quick Quotes on Public Contracts Scotland. You have to be registered with your categories set, or use a tool like BidSquirrel that monitors the major sources for you.
Can BidSquirrel match Scotland tenders to my business?
Yes. BidSquirrel scores live Scotland tenders against your business, scale and location, gives a strong, fair or development verdict with the reasoning, and checks whether you are even eligible before you commit time to a bid.