Wiring Tenders and Contracts

Wiring tenders cover full and partial rewires of schools, housing blocks and public buildings, fixed wiring inspections and testing that lead into remedial work, and new wiring installation in refurbishment projects. A notice titled as electrical testing or an EICR often turns into a rewire once the inspection finds a fault, so the two overlap in practice.

Stotles brings together wiring 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. Councils and housing providers tender electrical inspection with remedial works across their stock, and police and fire estates split fixed wiring testing into lots by site group.

Electrical work must meet BS 7671 wiring regulations, contractors are usually NICEIC or NAPIT registered, and landlords must meet the Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020 where they apply. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Rewires are often mini-competitions under frameworks such as Scotland Excel's property maintenance and refurbishment framework, and fixed wire testing under ESPO's electrical testing services. Councils, housing associations, NHS and health trusts, schools and academy trusts, fire and rescue services and defence estates buy wiring work.

Read electrical installation condition report programmes, housing investment plans, school condition surveys and expiry dates for existing testing contracts, which show wiring 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.

Wiring notices carry 45310000 (Electrical installation work), 45311100 (Electrical wiring work) and 45311000 (Electrical wiring and fitting work). Plenty of wiring notices carry no code at all or a neighbouring one.