Global Travel, Accommodation and Venue Management Services
- Buyer
- Government Commercial Agency
- Value
- £36,250,000,000
- Closes
- 8 December 2026
- Where
- Liverpool, the North West
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
The Government Commercial Agency is setting up a large, multi-lot framework (a pre-approved list of suppliers that public bodies can buy from without running their own full tender) covering all UK public sector travel and accommodation. It includes flights, trains, taxis, coaches, car hire, hotels, venues for meetings and events, and emergency accommodation for people such as refugees, people experiencing homelessness, and crisis evacuees. The estimated total value is £36.25 billion.
What the buyer wants
• Suppliers must provide end-to-end booking and management of travel, accommodation and venues across UK and overseas, for individual trips, group bookings of nine or more people, and events. • Lot 4 suppliers must provide emergency and civilian housing, including repurposed sites, plus welfare and security services for vulnerable cohorts. • Lot 5 suppliers must provide air charter and lease services quickly during evacuations or crises, and all lots need strong technology for booking, quotes and hybrid events.
Lots
- UK and Overseas POS Business Travel, Accommodation and Venue Find Services
- UK-booked Business Travel and Accommodation
- Lot 3 (Venue Find and Supporting Services for Meetings, Conferences and Events)
- Lot 4 (Accommodation and Venues for Civilian Programmes)
- Lot 5 (Air Charter and Lease)
- Lot 6 (Passenger Transport)
- Lot 7 (Online Travel Agent Services for Self-Serve Travel)
- Lot 8 - (Defence and Other Specialist Travel Services )
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
The scale of the framework, the requirement to deliver nationally and overseas at high volume, and the need for financial strength and multiple accreditations would put it out of reach for most small businesses, though a small firm could still bid for a narrow lot such as venue finding or local ground transport through a larger prime contractor.
How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
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