Building Contracts and Tenders

Building procurement covers repairs and maintenance of council and housing buildings, roofing replacement programmes, and the refurbishment and remodelling of community buildings and schools. Home adaptations such as level-access showers, ramps and stair lifts for disabled residents and building compliance work also come up.

Stotles brings together building 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. Smaller building jobs often appear only on Contracts Finder or a council's own portal.

Building tenders set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar jobs and a health and safety record at selection stage. Contractors also take on duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, and gas or electrical work needs the relevant registration. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Councils procure home adaptations through dynamic purchasing systems split into lots by type of work. Plymouth City Council runs lots for bathroom adaptations, ramps and paths, external lifts and major extensions, and awards each job to a contractor already on the system.

Public sector building projects are usually let on JCT or NEC contract forms, with JCT design-and-build common for housing and school schemes. Repairs and maintenance work is often let as a measured term contract.

The SCAPE regional construction framework is a common route for building works, with Nottingham City Council calling off school roofing works from it in separate packages.

The Crown Commercial Service construction works and associated services framework covers building works and minor associated civil engineering works across its regional lots. Buyers such as the Greater Manchester Combined Authority direct award refurbishment works from it, and the Crown Commercial Service has also let minor works and small projects contracts under it.

Councils, housing associations, schools and education boards, universities and NHS trusts are the regular buyers of building work.

Yes. Town and parish councils, schools and housing associations let small refurbishment, roofing and repair jobs on their own, often on Contracts Finder, and adaptation and minor works dynamic purchasing systems are built for smaller contractors.

Read housing asset management plans, stock condition surveys, school estate plans and preliminary market engagement notices, which show building 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 45300000 (Building installation work) and 45000000 (Construction work), alongside 45261210 (Roof-covering work), 45260000 (Roof works and other special trade construction works) and 34953000 (Access ramps).