Emergency Tenders and Contracts

Emergency procurement covers emergency planning and civil contingencies advice, emergency preparedness training and exercising, and incident coordination software. Search and rescue adds coastguard vehicles, rescue equipment and aerial surveillance, and urban search and rescue tools and training facilities for fire services.

Stotles brings together emergency planning 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. Rescue equipment is often called off from YPO's emergency response and rescue equipment dynamic purchasing system, and planning support is bought as short advisory call-offs.

Emergency planning advice must support the buyer's duties under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, and NHS work follows the NHS England EPRR framework. 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.

Local authorities and combined authorities carry the statutory duty under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, so councils publish a steady stream of this work. NHS ambulance and acute trusts running EPRR programmes, fire and emergency management training providers, police bodies, and nuclear site operators and regulators all buy into this category too.

Read local resilience forum plans, community risk registers, EPRR assurance reports and exercise programmes, which show emergency planning 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.

Emergency planning has no CPV code of its own, and many council notices for emergency planning and civil contingencies advice carry no CPV code at all, so the work is better recognised by its titles than by a code.