# Bidding in the United Kingdom as a foreign company

> Whether a company established in the EU may bid for public contracts in the United Kingdom, the instrument that decides it, and the channels it would register on.

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## The WTO procurement agreement

Yes, for the procurement the United Kingdom listed. As a party to the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement, the United Kingdom committed to treat suppliers from the other parties, the EU among them, no less favourably than its own. What that covers is not the whole state: each party files annexes naming the buyers, the goods and services, and the value thresholds it opens, and anything outside those annexes is not covered by the agreement at all.

Instrument: WTO Agreement on Government Procurement, party in its own right since 2021.

## Where you would register

- Find a Tender (https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/): The UK's national service for above-threshold procurement notices.
- Contracts Finder (https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/): The service for lower-value contracts across England.
- Public Contracts Scotland (https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/): Scotland's national procurement portal.

## A right to bid is not a notice

17 sources publish public procurement in the United Kingdom and 12 of them are read by a dedicated connector. Registering on the national portal and stopping there watches one address out of 17. Every source: https://trinta.ai/government-tenders/united-kingdom

This is not legal advice. Trade agreements grant what their annexes list, and a particular procedure's documents can require local registration, an agent or local content that no agreement overrides.

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