Compliance Tenders and Contracts

Public sector compliance work takes four recurring shapes: outsourced data protection officer services, often shared across several councils or health bodies; governance, risk and compliance software platforms; anti-money laundering and financial crime monitoring, mainly for regulators and financial bodies; and compliance auditing, including accessibility and regulatory audits. Estates compliance, such as gas safety and electrical testing, is a separate market.

Stotles brings together compliance 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. Governance, risk and screening tools are often called off from G-Cloud, and shared data protection officer services are let across groups of councils, GP practices or academy trusts.

Compliance tenders are scored on the team's qualifications and sector experience, the approach to the service or platform, security and price. Data protection officer appointments run for fixed terms, so the expiry of the current contract is the moment to bid.

Data protection officers must have expert knowledge of data protection law under UK GDPR, and anti-money laundering and screening services must work within the Money Laundering Regulations 2017. Tenders usually set minimum professional indemnity insurance, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Data protection officer contracts are often shared across organisations, such as GP practices or the schools in an academy trust. Councils, health bodies, regulators, colleges and financial institutions buy regularly, and the British Business Bank has tendered repeatedly for governance and financial crime tooling. Risk and screening tools are often called off CCS's G-Cloud framework.

Read finance and governance reviews, compliance requirements, framework renewal dates and expiry dates for existing contracts, which show compliance work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

The closest are 48170000 (Compliance software package) and 72212170 (Compliance software development services). 79212110 (Corporate governance rating services) turns up on GRC tenders too.

All three are narrow, so auditing services (79212000) and legal advisory and information services (79140000) carry a good share of compliance notices.