Window Cleaning Tenders and Contracts

Window cleaning procurement covers external and internal glazing cleaning for offices, schools, colleges, universities, hospitals and housing blocks. Contracts range from routine visits with water-fed poles to high-level facade cleaning and specialist work such as spiking to deter birds. Many buyers tender window cleaning together with communal cleaning, grounds maintenance or soft facilities management.

Stotles brings together window cleaning 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. Window cleaning is often bundled into wider cleaning, grounds maintenance or facilities contracts, so look for it inside those notices as well as under its own title.

Window cleaning tenders are scored on price alongside a short method statement, so bids set out how often each building will be cleaned and the equipment and access methods you will use. They also cover health and safety at height and how missed visits and complaints are handled. Buyers with many sites, such as housing groups, often score on the price per visit or per building.

Work at height is regulated, so buyers expect risk assessments, safe systems of work and trained operatives under the Work at Height Regulations 2005, with extra checks for rope access or high-level work. 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.

Housing associations buy communal and external window cleaning for their blocks, and universities, colleges, NHS bodies, councils and central government offices tender it for their estates. Several housing groups let window cleaning region by region in separate contracts.

Most window cleaning contracts run for two to three years, with some going to five. Short contracts of under a year are usually one-off or specialist work.

Track the expiry dates of existing cleaning contracts and preliminary market engagement notices, which show cleaning and window cleaning 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.

The core codes are 90911300 (Window-cleaning services) and 90911000 (Accommodation, building and window cleaning services). Contracts that bundle window cleaning with other work carry 90910000 (Cleaning services), 90911200 (Building-cleaning services) and 90900000 (Cleaning and sanitation services).