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SectorUpdated 26 Aug 2026

Education & training tenders

Live UK public sector opportunities in education & training, collected daily from Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales.

68
open for bids now
2,300
awarded, 12 months
£14bn
recorded value, 12m
2,324
ending within 12 months
955
buyers, 5 years

The UK public sector published 15,992 recorded education & training awards over the last five years, worth a recorded £31bn across 955 public buyers. 68 opportunities are open for bids today, and 39% of the last year's awards ran through a framework or DPS. 2,324 recorded contracts in this market end within the next 12 months.Recorded by BidSkim from published notices. Recorded means published, every figure is a floor. Updated 26 Aug 2026.

Open opportunities

largest of 68 open now
YPO - 001086 Apprenticeships
CFYPOCloses 31 Jul 2027
£10bn
LCRCA Integrated Settlement Funding for Adult Skills for academic years (August to July) 2027/28 to 2031/32
FTSLiverpool City Region Combined AuthorityCloses 17 Sept 2026
£45.0m
Higher Specialist Scientific Training Programme 2026/27
FTSNHS EnglandCloses 4 Sept 2026
£42.2m
Educational Services Procured Services Arrangement (PSA) Phase 12
PCSSouth Lanarkshire CouncilCloses 30 Oct 2026
£42.1m
Children's Centres and Best Start Family Hubs
FTSRoyal Borough of GreenwichCloses 5 Oct 2026
£34.5m
Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship and Associated Learning Programmes
FTSGreater Manchester Combined AuthorityCloses 23 Sept 2026
£22.7m
Delivery of Apprenticeships to the Royal Corps of Signals
FTSMinistry of DefenceCloses 12 Oct 2026
£17.0m
Delivery of Apprenticeships to the Intelligence Corps
FTSMinistry of DefenceCloses 12 Oct 2026
£5.8m
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Frameworks & DPS in this market

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Who wins this work

top suppliers by recorded wins · 5 years
1QA220 wins
£86.9m
2Shannon Trust136 wins
£6.7m
£26.6m
4PeoplePlus104 wins
£70.6m
5Capita98 wins
£145m
£16.8m
7BPP84 wins
£69.3m
£17.5m
9Babington78 wins
£50.0m
10KPMG74 wins
£947m

Who buys it

top buyers by recorded awarded value · 5 years
£4.8bn
2NHS England2,487 awards
£2.9bn
£2.1bn
4Jisc298 awards
£1.4bn
5HEE464 awards
£1.2bn
6Cabinet Office29 awards
£706m
7Ministry of Justice1,384 awards
£472m
£461m
£450m
£240m

Awards by year

recorded awards per year
2020202120222023202420252026*2027*2029*
Recorded awards*current year part-year

Recent awards

latest recorded awards, 12 months
SLA relating to Apprenticeship Training with NORTHERN & YORKSHIRE NHS ASSESSMENT
CFHealth Education EnglandAwarded 2 Feb 2029
£213k
Contract for the provision of a Raising Aspirations for Young People Programme
CFStaffordshire County CouncilAwarded 8 Feb 2027
£80k
Adult Eating Disorders Whole Team Training NHS/SoEPS/ 19.620 North & South
CFHealth Education EnglandAwarded 8 Nov 2026
£2.3m
Pre-Applicant Communications
CFSTUDENT LOANS COMPANY LIMITEDAwarded 1 Nov 2026
£240k
Value Based Leadership Training for the Housing Service
PCSNational Records of ScotlandAwarded 3 Sept 2026
£35k
Situational Judgement & Psychometric Testing- Assessments
FTSNHS EnglandAwarded 25 Aug 2026
£1.3m
Delivery of Bikeability Core Training and Learn To Ride Training
FTSOldham Metropolitan Borough CouncilAwarded 25 Aug 2026
£228k
Review of Higher Education
FTSLlywodraeth Cymru / Welsh GovernmentAwarded 25 Aug 2026
£155k
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Education & Training procurement, answered

computed from published notices

How many education & training contracts are open right now?

68 education & training opportunities are open for bids across Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales as of 26 Aug 2026. New notices arrive daily; a free scan matches them against your business.

Who buys education & training services in the UK public sector?

955 public buyers awarded recorded education & training contracts in the last five years. The largest by recorded value are Ministry of Defence, NHS England, Department for Education.

Which education & training frameworks and DPS are open in the UK?

72 framework and DPS routes are currently advertised for education & training work, including YPO - 001086 Apprenticeships and Adult Skills and Learning DPS. BidSkim badges framework and DPS routes in your matched feed and flags the ones you can still join.

How many education & training contracts are coming up for renewal?

2,324 recorded contracts in this market carry an end date within the next 12 months, worth a combined £1.5bn where a value was published. Renewal timing signals, incumbents and predicted return windows are part of BidSkim Predict.

Market snapshot

26 Aug 2026
Recorded awards, 5 years
15,992
Recorded value, 5 years
£31bn
Buyers active, 5 years
955
Ending within 12 months
2,324
Via framework or DPS, 12m
39%

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About this data. Built from published notices on Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales, classified by CPV code and entity-resolved by BidSkim. Framework and DPS establishment notices are listed separately, excluded from open-opportunity counts, and value totals exclude framework ceilings and implausible outliers. Last updated 26 Aug 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Education & training tenders: 68 open now, 2,324 ending within 12 months · BidSkim