Home Building Tenders and Contracts

Home building procurement covers the construction of new homes: council and housing association new-build schemes, design-and-build contracts for social and affordable housing, and land-and-build package deals. Modular and offsite homes, Passivhaus and net-zero schemes, and custom and self-build plots also come up, along with design teams and pre-construction agreements.

Stotles brings together home building 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. Most home building runs through new-build housing frameworks such as LHC's new homes frameworks, with schemes called off by mini-competition.

Home building tenders are scored on price, design quality, energy performance, programme, social value and the contractor's record on similar schemes. Most schemes are called off from frameworks, so a framework place comes first.

New homes must meet Building Regulations and the buyer's design standards, and construction brings duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015. 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.

Yes, most are. A council or housing association typically appoints a single contractor to design and build a scheme under a JCT Design and Build contract, sometimes through a wider development or modern-methods-of-construction framework rather than a standalone tender for each site.

Local authorities and housing associations are regular buyers, usually appointing a design-and-build contractor for a social or affordable housing scheme. Some councils also procure self and custom build plots for private buyers, and Homes England and combined authorities commission consultancy and delivery support around larger programmes.

Read housing delivery programmes, local plan allocations, council housebuilding pipelines and early market engagement notices, which show home building 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 codes are 45211000 (Construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses), 45211100 (Construction work for houses) and 45211300 (Houses construction work). Modular and prefabricated schemes also carry 44211100 (Modular and portable buildings).