Asylum Seeker Hotel Tenders and Contracts

Asylum accommodation procurement covers the Home Office's regional Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contracts (AASC), which house people in hotels and dispersed properties, and the Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility (AIRE) contract that runs alongside them. Contingency hotel rooms are booked when dispersed housing runs short. Around those contracts, councils and NHS integrated care boards buy casework, mental health support and GP services for people living in asylum accommodation.

The Home Office is the buyer, and it lets asylum accommodation through seven regional AASC contracts: the South, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the North West, the Midlands and East of England, and the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber. Each regional contract is held by a prime provider that sources hotels and housing in its region. Extra contingency hotel rooms have been booked through Crown Commercial Service's travel and venue framework.

Stotles brings together asylum accommodation and support 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. Home Office notices for the national accommodation contracts appear on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, while council and NHS support contracts for people in asylum accommodation often appear only on the buyer's own portal.

The national accommodation contracts go to large providers that can source and manage housing across a whole region, so most organisations reach this market through council and NHS support contracts instead. 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.

The Home Office's Future Asylum Contracts Transformation (FACT) programme, formerly the Asylum Support and Accommodation Programme, is re-procuring asylum support and accommodation. FACT is set to replace the AASC and AIRE contracts, Bridging Accommodation and Travel Services (BATS) and Asylum Support Payments, and the Home Office opened market engagement with a preliminary notice in May 2025.

Councils do not hold the accommodation contracts, but they commission support for people living in asylum accommodation in their area: casework, wellbeing and mental health services, ESOL and integration projects. NHS North West London Integrated Care Board and other ICBs buy GP and health screening services for people housed in hotels and initial accommodation centres, and much of this work is let to charities and local providers.

The AASC and AIRE contracts started in 2019 and run to August 2029. Contract change notices have been published during the term as the contracts were varied.

Watch Home Office market engagement notices for the FACT programme, contract change notices on the regional AASC contracts, and council and ICB board papers on dispersal and support for people in asylum hotels. 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 98341000 (Accommodation services), 55250000 (Letting services of short-stay furnished accommodation) and 70300000 (Real estate agency services on a fee or contract basis). The health and support contracts around asylum accommodation carry 85100000 (Health services) and 85000000 (Health and social work services).