Find every live Wales public sector tender in one place

Sell2Wales (sell2wales.gov.wales) is the primary national procurement portal for Wales. Welsh Government guidance directs public bodies, including local councils, health boards and arm's-length bodies, to advertise contract opportunities there. It covers both formal procurement notices and lower-value Quick Quotes, the shorter, less formal invitations to quote used below the formal tender thresholds.

Because Sell2Wales acts as a single aggregation point for most Welsh public bodies, it is meaningfully different from the fragmented landscape in England, where buyers may advertise on any number of third-party portals. Suppliers targeting Wales can build a monitoring routine around one primary source rather than dozens. For contracts above the Procurement Act 2023 thresholds, notices also appear on Find a Tender, so a complete approach includes both channels.

eTenderWales, a Jaggaer-based eSourcing system, is used by NHS Wales, Welsh Government and many other bodies to run the tender process itself, but the opportunity is advertised on Sell2Wales. Suppliers do not need to monitor eTenderWales separately for discovery. TenderSignal ingests Sell2Wales and Find a Tender and surfaces Welsh opportunities in a single feed matched to your profile.

Welsh public procurement sits within the UK-wide Procurement Act 2023, which replaced the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and came into force in February 2025. Welsh bodies follow the same thresholds and core procedures as English bodies under that framework, but Wales adds a distinctive layer on top.

The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 places a legal duty on Welsh public bodies to pursue sustainable development, weighing long-term social, cultural, environmental and economic wellbeing. The Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023 goes further, requiring bodies above a spend threshold to produce a socially responsible procurement strategy and to consider fair work practices, including payment of the real Living Wage, when awarding contracts.

In practice, Welsh tender specifications often include social value questions, community benefit clauses and fair work requirements that go beyond what many English buyers ask for. Notices frequently appear in both Welsh and English. Suppliers do not need to bid in Welsh, but demonstrating Welsh-language awareness for community-facing services is valued and sometimes formally scored.

The current live pipeline is distributed across health, central government, transport and local authority buyers. NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) is the single largest procurement body for NHS Wales, running collaborative contracts across the health boards, from medical supplies and facilities management to IT and capital projects. Welsh Government (Llywodraeth Cymru) procures across economic development, consultancy, infrastructure and digital services, with several contracts run centrally through Value Wales.

Transport for Wales runs rail services and significant ongoing infrastructure investment, while Cardiff Council and the City and County of Swansea are the two largest local authority buyers by volume, covering social care, housing, highways and professional services. Powys County Council and Caerphilly County Borough Council are consistently active mid-sized buyers. By activity, services lead the live pipeline (41 live), followed by goods (10) and works (6).

Much of Welsh public procurement is channelled through frameworks, the pre-competed multi-supplier arrangements that let public bodies award contracts more quickly. NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership manages a portfolio of national frameworks for health bodies, covering clinical supplies, estates, facilities and professional services, so a place on one can lead to call-off work without a full tender each time.

Value Wales and the National Procurement Service maintain category-specific collaborative agreements used by local authorities, universities and other bodies, covering common spend such as temporary staffing, ICT, construction consultancy and fleet. Welsh universities and colleges also participate in wider consortium arrangements, and Welsh housing associations use collaborative buying for planned-maintenance work. TenderSignal flags open tenders and framework opportunities distinctly, so you can identify which frameworks are active in your sector and time your applications.

Start by registering a free supplier profile on Sell2Wales, so buyers can find you in the supplier directory and so you receive Quick Quote invitations, as some lower-value work is invited directly rather than advertised openly. Set your relevant Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) codes so you see the right notices across both Sell2Wales and Find a Tender without manual searching.

Prepare your social value evidence early, because Welsh buyers are required to consider social value and fair work. Ready-made answers on Living Wage commitment, local employment, supply-chain practices and Welsh-language awareness save time at bid stage and often score. For larger contracts, respond to market engagement events and Prior Information Notices, and always use the clarification window. Set a TenderSignal saved search for Wales, filtered to your sector, and matching opportunities land in your inbox with enough lead time to prepare a competitive bid.