Flood Tenders and Contracts

Flood defence and alleviation scheme design and delivery is the largest category, from engineering and environmental consultancy through to construction. Flood monitoring and early-warning systems, surface water and sustainable drainage projects, and temporary or permanent flood barriers make up the rest.

Stotles brings together flood 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. Flood consultancy is often called off from ESPO and NEPO frameworks, and the Environment Agency lets construction and barrier supply through its own frameworks.

Flood tenders are scored on technical approach, modelling and design capability, environmental management, programme and price. Schemes are often staged, so winning the design stage can lead to construction work.

Flood works bring duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, and works near watercourses often need flood risk activity permits from the Environment Agency or the equivalent regulator. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar schemes at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

National environment agencies commission the largest flood defence programmes and hold standing frameworks for barrier supply and asset maintenance. Councils commission scheme-specific work for their own areas, often starting with an engagement or feasibility stage before the main works are tendered.

Read local flood risk management strategies, surface water management plans, capital flood scheme programmes and early market engagement notices, which show flood 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.

Flood notices carry 45246400 (Flood-prevention works), 45246000 (River regulation and flood control works) and 71311000 (Civil engineering consultancy services).