General Medical Council (GMC): tenders, sectors & how to win their contracts

General Medical Council (GMC) has published 173 tenders in United Kingdom.

Its buying spans 18 CPV divisions, most often business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.

Across 60 awarded contracts the median value is £575k.

Its published awards total £157.8m.

How to win their contracts

Measured from General Medical Council (GMC)'s own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

Plan for about 35 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 66 of their tenders.
They publish about 2.6 tenders a month, measured over 67 months of history.
Half of their 60 awarded contracts are worth £575k or less — size your bid to that range.
Most of their buying falls in business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, it services: consulting, software development, internet and support, education and training services.
Their most frequent suppliers are Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited (2), Mercer (2), IdeaPort Riga (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.

Tender	Winner	Tender closed	Contract Value
Events and Conference support	One Two agency Ltd	27 April 2026	£250k
Office fit out services - Cardiff	TFI Concepts Ltd	24 April 2026	£120k
Office fit out services - Cardiff	TFI Concepts Ltd	24 April 2026	£120k
Toxicology Services	DNA Workplace Ltd	27 August 2025	£800k
Private Medical Insurance Brokerage Services	Mercer	21 June 2023	£2.8m
Inclusive career development programmes	Business in the Community	20 June 2023	£650k

Contracts are dated by the tender's closing date — award dates are not published in the source data.

Supplier	Contracts	Total Value
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited	2	£20m
Mercer	2	£2.8m
IdeaPort Riga	2	£2.7m
Lincoln House Chambers	2	£1.1m
British Medical Association	2	£470.6k
TFI Concepts Ltd	2	£240k