Aggregates Tenders and Contracts

An aggregates tender covers materials like sand, gravel and crushed stone that public bodies buy for construction, road surfacing and drainage work. Some notices cover single deliveries, others cover multi-year supply frameworks.

Stotles brings together aggregates 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. Highways authorities and Network Rail often buy aggregates through multi-supplier frameworks, and smaller delivery contracts appear on Contracts Finder or a council's own portal.

Aggregates tenders are scored on price per tonne, delivery coverage and reliability, product specification and sustainability, such as recycled content and haulage distances. Frameworks are often split by region, so suppliers can bid where their quarries are.

Aggregates for construction must meet the relevant British and European product standards and be supplied under factory production control. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar supply contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Local councils, highways authorities and infrastructure bodies such as Network Rail are regular buyers. Other public bodies also procure aggregates for maintenance and construction work.

Read highway maintenance programmes, road resurfacing plans, drainage and path schemes and framework renewal dates, which show 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.

Aggregates notices carry 14210000 (Gravel, sand, crushed stone and aggregates) and 44113140 (Roadstone). Combined supply agreements also carry 44114000 (Concrete).