Demolition Tenders and Contracts

Demolition contracts take down a building or structure, in whole or in part, together with the enabling and temporary works that go with it. Earthmoving and site preparation ahead of a new build are included when they are let with the demolition.

Stotles brings together demolition 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. Demolition is often let inside wider construction or framework call-offs, so look for it within those notices as well as under its own title.

Demolition tenders are scored on price alongside the demolition method, asbestos and hazardous material management, waste recycling, programme and safety record. Buyers often bundle soft strip and demolition into wider construction frameworks, so a framework place helps.

Demolition must follow the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, and asbestos removal needs a licence from the Health and Safety Executive under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar demolition contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Both. Some buyers let a standalone demolition contract for a single building. Others include the demolition in a design and build or refurbishment contract, so the notice is titled for the new building rather than for the demolition.

Demolition buyers include councils clearing a site for new housing or a leisure centre, museums and other public bodies replacing an existing building, and utilities preparing ground for infrastructure. Demolition also appears inside larger design and build contracts, where the contractor clears the existing building before construction starts.

Read regeneration masterplans, capital programmes, planning applications for replacement buildings and estate disposal plans, which show work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the councils and public bodies behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Demolition notices carry 45111100 (Demolition work), 45111000 (Demolition, site preparation and clearance work) and 45111200 (Site preparation and clearance work).