Livelihoods & Enterprise Development tenders in United Kingdom

12 open notices

Livelihood support, income-generating activities, MSME and enterprise development, value chains, employment and skills, financial inclusion and microfinance.

Who buys livelihoods & enterprise development in United Kingdom

These are the organisations with the most livelihoods & enterprise development notices open in United Kingdom right now. Buyers in this sector tend to repeat — following the few that award the work you do is usually more productive than watching the market as a whole.

Durham County Council · 2
Crown Commercial Service · 1
Derry City and Strabane District Council · 1
Essex County Council · 1
FAIR4ALL FINANCE LIMITED · 1
Metropolitan borough of Bury · 1
Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner for Staffordshire · 1
South Lanarkshire Council · 1

Livelihoods & Enterprise Development market snapshot

Since 6 Jul 2026, FreeTender has recorded 15 livelihoods & enterprise development notices in United Kingdom, 10 of them open today. The median bid window is 28 days, so plan to have documents ready before a notice appears. Where buyers state a value, the median is GBP 218 thousand (8 priced notices).

Notices on record: 15
Open now: 10
Median bid window: 28 days
Median stated value: GBP 218 thousand

JulSeptOct

Most active livelihoods & enterprise development buyers

Durham County Council2 notices
Metropolitan borough of Bury1 notices
Derry City and Strabane District Council1 notices
CREATIVE SECTOR SERVICES C.I.C.1 notices
Capital City Partnership1 notices
Stoke on Trent City Council1 notices
Including Communities Programme 20261 notices
London Borough of Croydon1 notices
SafeDeposits Scotland Community Fund1 notices
Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner for Staffordshire1 notices

By sub-sector

Employment & Skills9 notices
Financial Inclusion2 notices
Livelihood Support2 notices
Enterprise & MSME1 notices

Procedures used

Open tender6 notices
Grant / funding call4 notices
rfi4 notices

Computed by FreeTender from the notices we hold, refreshed nightly. Monthly market reports.

How they buy

UK public procurement is published centrally — Find a Tender for higher-value contracts and Contracts Finder for lower-value ones — alongside sectoral portals for the NHS, local authorities and devolved administrations. Framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems account for a large share of spend, so much of the market is reached by getting onto a framework rather than by bidding for individual contracts.

Across the livelihoods & enterprise development notices we currently hold for United Kingdom, the most common form is the rfi, followed by open tender or invitation to bid. Each has its own rules — see RFP, RFQ and EOI compared and tendering procedures explained.

What qualifies you

Suppliers complete a standard selection questionnaire covering financial standing, insurance, health and safety, and relevant experience. Above-threshold procurements follow published procedures with defined standstill periods before award. Social value is a scored element in central government procurement, so a proposal that ignores it loses marks that are available to everyone.

Livelihoods and enterprise work is delivery-heavy and measured in outcomes — households reached, enterprises started or sustained, jobs created, income change against a baseline. That makes local presence and a credible community-mobilisation approach as important as technical design, and it is why these contracts frequently go to national organisations or to consortia pairing an international firm with local implementers. Expect payment tied to milestones or verified results, obligations to disaggregate reporting by sex and age, and scrutiny of how benefits will continue after the contract ends. Where the assignment involves grants, revolving funds or matching capital to participants, the financial-management and audit requirements are substantially heavier than for an ordinary services contract.

Before committing effort, it is worth running a deliberate bid/no-bid decision and checking your submission against the responsiveness checklist.