Core Drilling Tenders and Contracts

A core drilling tender covers cutting precise holes through concrete, masonry or other structural material, to install cabling, pipework or ductwork, or to prepare for fire-stopping and refurbishment work. Buyers commission it as standalone works or as part of a larger maintenance or construction contract.

Stotles brings together core drilling 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. Core drilling is usually let as a package inside wider maintenance and refurbishment contracts, so look for it within those notices as well as under its own title.

Core drilling brings duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, and drilling into older buildings needs an asbestos survey first. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar works at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Core drilling is let as a standalone specialist works contract, or as a sub-contract package within a wider maintenance, refurbishment or construction project. Some buyers appoint core drilling specialists through an approved contractor framework rather than tendering each job separately.

Councils, housing associations and NHS trusts commission core drilling work for building maintenance, cabling and pipework installation and refurbishment projects. Local authority in-house repair teams and social landlords also let this work directly to specialist contractors.

Read refurbishment and fire-stopping programmes, cabling and pipework upgrade plans and planned maintenance schedules, which show core drilling 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.