Electrical Contracts and Tenders

Electrical procurement covers electrical installation and rewiring, mains and distribution board upgrades in schools, fixed wire testing and EICR inspection programmes for housing, emergency lighting and fire alarm systems, and lighting replacement. Mechanical and electrical services contracts for public buildings also come up.

Stotles brings together electrical 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. Electrical works for Irish schools and the Health Service Executive appear on Ireland's eTenders.

Tendering for public sector electrical work starts with registering on the portals buyers use and setting alerts for electrical notices in your area. Buyers ask for evidence of similar jobs, method statements and a priced schedule, and smaller jobs such as school upgrades or inspection programmes are a realistic way in before larger maintenance contracts.

Electrical work in homes must be certified under the Building Regulations, usually through a competent person scheme, and many buyers ask for NICEIC registration. 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.

The YPO Highway Electrical Installations dynamic purchasing system is a common route for street lighting and highway electrical work, from LED lighting upgrades to maintenance and new connections. Councils and highway bodies such as Coventry City Council, Kensington and Chelsea and NY Highways award work under it, often through a further competition between the appointed suppliers.

The Fusion21 Heating, Renewables and Electrical framework covers domestic electrical testing and servicing of tenanted homes, along with electrical and gas compliance audits. Councils including Hackney and Birmingham have called off from it, and members of the Fusion21 consortium can use it through a further competition.

County councils buying for schools, housing associations, NHS trusts and Ireland's Health Service Executive, universities and colleges are the regular buyers of electrical services.

Yes. Electrical upgrades in individual schools, inspection programmes for housing associations and lighting or emergency lighting replacements are let as standalone jobs, often below the threshold for a full open tender. Hampshire County Council and other county councils publish a steady stream of school electrical works.

Read school capital programmes, housing inspection cycles and preliminary market engagement notices, which show electrical 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 core codes are 45310000 (Electrical installation work), 45311000 (Electrical wiring and fitting work) and 50711000 (Repair and maintenance services of electrical building installations), alongside 51100000 (Installation services of electrical and mechanical equipment).