British Council tenders and procurement
Covering 600+ buyer sites · 5 years of records · Contracts awarded in the 24 months to 11 October 2026 · Updated 11 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 210
- Last 24 months
- Median contract
- £100k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £363m
- 170 of 210 have a published value
- Suppliers
- 334
- Won its contracts
- Tenders open now
- 5
- Closing soonest below
- Ending in 12 months
- 37
- Contracts with a recorded end date
Compiled by BidSkim from British Council’s published notices. Not an official British Council page.
Companies House number RC000060
Also appears in official records as “British Council China”, “British Council Colombia”, “British Council Egypt”.
Open tenders
Closing soonest. The official notice has the documents and the deadline.
- UK_1527 Corporate and Fine Art Insurance Brokerage Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)Closes 19 October 2026£8.1m
- Security Guarding Services for Vietnam Hanoi & Hoi Chi Min (official notice, opens in a new tab)Closes 19 October 2026£250k
- Malaysia Penang Centre Regear and Refit (official notice, opens in a new tab)Closes 23 October 2026£80k
- Going Global Partnerships Programme; Country Level Evaluations (official notice, opens in a new tab)Closes 26 October 2026£167k
- UK 777 IT Onsite Operations and Infrastructure supporting services (official notice, opens in a new tab)Closes 2 November 2026£1.2m
What British Council buys
By service, contracts awarded in the 24 months to 11 October 2026. BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
- 1Meeting room hire22 contracts£77.6m
- 2Event management15 contracts£2.0m
- 3Test centres, competence testing and language and citizenship tests13 contracts£1.6m
- 4Office supplies6 contracts£665k
- 5Teacher training and school staff development5 contracts£374k
- 6Bookkeeping and outsourced accounting4 contracts£274k
- 7Travel management4 contracts£1.2m
- 8Video production4 contracts£293k
- 9Overseas in-country payroll and employer of record3 contracts£525k
- 10Temporary staffing3 contracts£79.5m
Who wins British Council’s contracts
By contracts won, the 24 months to 11 October 2026.
- 1ACTOR SECURITE3 contracts£1.1m
- 2Basal Capital, S. de R.L. de C.V.3 contracts£534k
- 3RICHMOND SAS2 contracts£437k
- 4Cvent2 contracts£305k
- 5Creadores de Contenidos Educativos2 contracts£220k
- 6REVA Solutions2 contracts£125k
- 7Panamericana Formas e Impresos2 contracts£114k
- 8Diego Olavarria (Fonema Colectivo)2 contracts£90k
- 9Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE)2 contracts£84k
- 10SIMON BORG S.P.2 contracts£64k
Contracts awarded by quarter
Frameworks it buys through
14 of 210 contracts were call-offs from a framework or dynamic purchasing system.
- FRA079 Marketing Services Framework1 contract
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