International development consultancy contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most international development consultancy contracts took 23% of them (12 of 52).
• The median contract, £225k, is 2.8 times the median across consulting & accountancy contracts (£80k).
• Palladium International Limited awarded 35% of the international development consultancy contracts (18 of 52).

1. 1Palladium International Limited18 contracts£4.1m
2. 2Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office15 contracts£303m
3. 3Department for Business and Trade6 contracts£464k
4. 4Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult3 contracts£90k
5. 5British Council2 contracts£2.5m
6. 6UK Health Security Agency1 contract£1.6m
7. 7Department for Transport1 contract£600k
8. 8THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA1 contract£503k
9. 9Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)1 contract£364k
10. 10Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine1 contract£98k

1. 1DAI Global3 contracts£36.6m
2. 2KPMG3 contracts£5.0m
3. 3Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingenieria3 contracts£90k
4. 4Siemens2 contracts£900k
5. 5Palladium International Limited1 contract£11.2m
6. 6Axiom International Limited1 contract£10.0m
7. 7Cowater International1 contract£9.0m
8. 8Adam Smith International Limited1 contract£8.7m
9. 9Montrose International LLP1 contract£4.5m
10. 10Global Health Development1 contract£1.6m

Latest

• CORSIA Capacity Building Project (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £600k

  Department for Transport to Institute for Global Environmental Strategies · Awarded 24 September 2026

• Transforming Access to Climate Finance in Somalia (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £600k

  Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to DAI Global · Awarded 23 September 2026

• Indonesia Green Grids – TeamUK Discovery Phase Engagement (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £100k

  Department for Business and Trade to Thai MM Limited · Awarded 23 September 2026

• Manufacturing Africa (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  Value not published

  Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to supplier not published · Awarded 7 September 2026

• Growth Gateway (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £109m

  Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to supplier not published · Awarded 7 September 2026

• CR_5487 Railway Project Work for Peru (DBT) (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £15k

  Department for Business and Trade to Arup · Awarded 4 September 2026

• ET190 Consultancy - Capacity Strenthening (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £98k

  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to Nadia Fazal · Awarded 3 September 2026

• WTO Technical Assistance and Negotiation Support (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £650k

  Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to Summit Alliances International - Development Trade Solutions · Awarded 27 August 2026

• ASEAN-UK SAGE (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £8.7m

  Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to Adam Smith International Limited · Awarded 10 August 2026

Largest

• Growth Gateway

  £109m

  Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to supplier not published · Awarded 7 September 2026

• Institutional Strengthening for the Building Resilience & Addressing Vulnerability to Emergencies (BRAVE) Programme (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £18.0m

  Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to DAI Global · Awarded 30 January 2026

• Forest Governance, Markets and Climate (FGMC2) Facilitation Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £11.2m

  Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to Palladium International Limited · Awarded 31 October 2025

• Iraq Security and Defence Programme (ISDP) (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £10.0m

  Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to Axiom International Limited · Awarded 21 November 2025

Technical assistance, policy advice and capacity building delivered to overseas governments, regulators and markets under UK aid and international climate finance programmes.

• Private sector and market systems development programmes
• Economic and fiscal governance reform assistance
• Regulatory and policy advice to overseas regulators
• Institutional and governance design for regional carbon markets
• Capacity building workshops for counterpart bodies
• Climate finance programme advisers

• UK regulatory economics (see Regulatory and competition economics)
• UK policy advice (see Policy development advice)
• Business support to UK firms (see Business support programme delivery)
• Evaluation of development programmes (see Impact evaluation)

• Business mentoring
• Cost benefit analysis
• Business case development
• Policy development

• Market analysis
• Event management