Solar Contracts and Tenders

Rooftop PV dominates: schools, leisure centres, ambulance stations and council offices installing or replacing solar panels, often bundled with reroofing or high-level cleaning work. Solar carports and canopies over car parks show up too, mostly at schools and NHS sites.

Stotles brings together solar tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Solar installation for public estates is often called off from frameworks, so some opportunities reach only installers already on them.

Solar tenders are scored on system design and yield, roof or site surveys, installation programme, grid connection, warranties and price. Buyers often call off from frameworks, so a framework place and similar public sector installations help.

Solar installers are expected to hold MCS certification for small-scale systems and to meet electrical safety and grid connection requirements, and roof work must follow the Work at Height Regulations 2005. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar installations at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

The Crown Commercial Service demand management and renewables agreements are a common route for solar photovoltaic installation. Councils and universities have called off from them to buy solar arrays, often alongside heat pump work in decarbonisation programmes.

The NHS Shared Business Services healthcare planning, construction consultancy and ancillary services framework covers the design and surveying consultancy behind roof replacement and solar panel schemes, and NHS Property Services has called off from it for that work.

Solar panel buying mostly runs through the Crown Commercial Service demand management and renewables agreements and minor works, decarbonisation and electrical frameworks with a solar lot, alongside one-off site tenders. Councils, housing associations, NHS trusts, colleges, universities and fire and rescue services tender solar work.

Read net zero and energy strategies, infrastructure investment plans, framework renewals and expiry dates for existing contracts, which show solar panel work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Solar panel notices carry 09332000 (Solar installation), 09330000 (Solar energy), 09331000 (Solar panels) and 45261215 (Solar panel roof-covering work).