Custom Tenders and Contracts

Livery and graphics procurement covers police, fire and utility fleet livery, high-conspicuity markings, vehicle wraps and decals, and signwriting. Vinyl wall and window graphics for hospitals and museums, and decals and livery for buses and trains, come up as well.

Stotles brings together livery and graphics 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. Livery and graphics work is often let as a lot inside print and signage frameworks, and police forces publish livery frameworks on the Blue Light e-tendering portal.

Livery and graphics tenders are scored on material quality and durability, compliance with conspicuity specifications, turnaround, fitting capacity and price. Police and fire fleets often buy through regional frameworks, so a framework place opens up repeat work.

Emergency vehicle livery must meet the national conspicuity specifications for retroreflective markings, and materials are usually expected to carry the relevant product standards. 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.

Custom livery and graphics work mostly sits as a lot inside print and signage frameworks, alongside dedicated police livery frameworks and contracts. Police forces, often buying jointly across a region, are regular buyers, alongside councils, fire and rescue services, NHS trusts and transport operators.

Emergency service fleets show up most often in the notices themselves, because conspicuity markings are specified centrally and reapplied whenever a vehicle joins or leaves a fleet. Transport authorities buy bus and rolling stock wraps. Councils, colleges and NHS trusts buy the interior side: wall graphics, window manifestations and wayfinding vinyl, usually folded into a refurbishment.

Read fleet replacement plans, vehicle framework renewals, depot reviews and lease expiry dates, which show custom livery and graphics work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the fleet teams behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Three codes carry most of this work: 34928470 (Signage), 22000000 (Printed matter and related products) and 50117000 (Vehicle conversion and reconditioning services). None of the three belongs to graphics alone.