Decorating Tenders and Contracts

Most decorating tenders are cyclical or planned redecoration contracts covering housing stock, communal areas, schools and public buildings: internal and external decoration, surface preparation, minor repairs and access equipment such as scaffolding, usually let as a term contract or framework rather than a single job.

Stotles brings together decorating 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. Cyclical decoration is often called off from housing frameworks such as the Efficiency East Midlands cyclical decoration framework, and smaller jobs appear on Contracts Finder or a council's own portal.

Decorating tenders are scored on price, often per property, alongside quality, resident liaison, programme and how occupied homes are protected. Housing landlords let cyclical decoration through term contracts and frameworks, so getting listed comes before winning individual programmes.

Decorating at height must follow the Work at Height Regulations 2005, and older buildings bring lead paint and asbestos risks that buyers expect contractors to manage. 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.

Decorating work is let as multi-year term contracts or area-split framework lots, with sites called off from frameworks such as the Efficiency East Midlands cyclical decoration framework. Housing associations, councils and NHS trusts are the main buyers of decorating work.

Often, yes. Many notices are titled painting and decorating and combine both trades under one contract, particularly for housing repairs and school redecoration programmes. A minority use decoration alone, usually for cyclical housing or heritage work where painting is one part of a wider redecoration scope.

Read capital programmes, planned maintenance schedules, estate condition surveys and early market engagement notices, which show decorating 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.

The main code is 45451000 (Decoration work), and 79931000 (Interior decorating services) also appears. Plenty of decorating contracts carry no CPV code at all or carry a painting code instead.