Cabling Contracts and Tenders

Cabling contracts cover structured cabling, data cabling and network cabling: the containment, cable runs, testing and certification that link phones, computers, CCTV and access control back to the network.

Stotles brings together cabling 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. Cabling is often let as a lot inside wider IT infrastructure, security and electrical frameworks, so look for it within those notices as well as under its own title.

Cabling tenders are scored on price alongside installation quality, testing and certification, programme and disruption to occupied buildings. Many buyers appoint cabling frameworks for ad hoc moves and changes, so a framework place opens up repeat work.

Cabling installation must follow the relevant structured cabling standards and BS 7671 where electrical work is involved, and buyers often ask for manufacturer certification so systems carry a warranty. 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.

Framework call-offs are common. Cabling frameworks include Dover Harbour Board's IT Infrastructure Framework, which sets aside a Data Cabling and Infrastructure lot, Staffordshire County Council's Data Cabling framework covering voice and data cabling across its estate, and United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust's IT Data Cabling Framework.

Often bundled. Cabling appears as its own line, such as Coleg Gwent's structured cabling tender, and as one lot inside a wider deal, such as Dover Harbour Board's IT Infrastructure Framework, which pairs a Data Cabling and Infrastructure lot with CCTV, access control and radio lots. Check a notice's lot list before assuming a cabling requirement stands alone.

Cabling is bought as standalone installation and maintenance contracts, as call-offs for ad hoc work, as multi-supplier framework agreements such as Technology Services, and as one lot inside wider IT or security frameworks. Councils, NHS trusts and health boards, universities, colleges and central government departments are the main buyers of cabling.

Read estates refurbishment programmes, network refresh plans, campus development schemes and expiry dates for existing cabling frameworks, which show cabling 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.

Cabling notices carry 32421000 (Network cabling) and 45314320 (Installation of computer cabling).