Clothing Tenders and Contracts

Clothing procurement covers PPE and workwear, hi-vis and waterproof clothing, safety footwear, and protective kit such as body armour, public order suits and firefighting suits. Staff uniforms for transport operators, security teams and ambulance services sit alongside school uniform supply, headwear and military clothing. Workwear rental and laundry services come up too.

Stotles brings together clothing and uniform 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. Police and fire uniform and protective clothing also appear on the Blue Light e-tendering portal, and much workwear is called off from frameworks.

Clothing and uniform tenders are scored on garment quality and testing, sizing and fit, delivery and stock management, sustainability and ethical sourcing, and price. Many buyers call off from workwear and uniform frameworks, so a framework place opens up repeat orders.

Protective clothing must meet the Personal Protective Equipment Regulations and the relevant British or European standards for its use, and buyers ask for test certificates. 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.

Regional frameworks carry a lot of this volume. ESPO's Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Clothing framework (144_23, renewing as 144_27) recurs often, and YPO's Uniform & Workwear framework, covering station, corporate and workshop wear, is behind several fire and rescue call-offs. Both sit alongside one-off council and NHS tenders.

Clothing buying is mostly call-offs from frameworks such as ESPO's PPE and clothing, YPO's PPE, workwear and uniform and NEPO's workwear and PPE, while school and single-site uniform contracts are tendered on their own. Police forces, fire and rescue services, councils, schools, housing associations and transport operators are regular buyers.

Read equipment replacement plans, asset registers, framework renewal dates and expiry dates for existing supply contracts, which show clothing and uniform 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.

Clothing tenders map most often to CPV code 18100000 (Occupational clothing, special workwear and accessories), 18000000 (Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories) and 35113400 (Protective and safety clothing). Protective footwear and workwear accessories also appear regularly alongside these three.