CCTV Tenders and Contracts

A CCTV tender usually covers the supply, installation, monitoring or maintenance of security cameras and surveillance systems for public buildings, town centres, depots or housing estates. It does not include drain or sewer camera surveys, which use the same acronym but sit in a different trade entirely.

Stotles brings together CCTV 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. CCTV is often called off from the ESPO security and surveillance framework, and police and blue light buyers publish on the Blue Light e-tendering portal.

CCTV tenders are scored on system design, image quality, integration with existing systems, maintenance response and price. Many contracts bundle CCTV with alarms and access control over several years, so service levels matter as much as installation.

CCTV installers are usually expected to hold NSI or SSAIB approval, control room staff need SIA public space surveillance licences, and systems must be used in line with UK data protection law and the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice. 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.

Installation tenders cover supplying and fitting cameras, cabling and recording equipment. Monitoring tenders cover the ongoing service: staffing a control room, watching live feeds and responding to incidents. Many contracts bundle both, alongside servicing and reactive maintenance.

Yes. Buyers use temporary CCTV to cover construction sites, void properties, waste sites and one-off events, then have it removed once the need has passed. These sit alongside permanent installation, upgrade and monitoring work in the same tender pipeline.

Local councils, housing associations, NHS trusts, universities, transport operators and blue light services all run CCTV tenders. Councils often combine camera installation with a control room monitoring contract, while housing associations tend to buy standalone maintenance or temporary CCTV for void properties and construction sites.

Read community safety strategies, town centre regeneration plans, control room upgrade programmes and expiry dates for existing maintenance contracts, which show CCTV 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.

CCTV tenders map most often to CPV codes 35120000 (Surveillance and security systems and devices), 32234000 (Closed-circuit television cameras), 92222000 (Closed circuit television services) and 35125300 (Security cameras). Buyers rarely rely on a single code alone, so most notices carry more than one of these together.