Lease Tenders and Contracts

Lease procurement covers two related jobs. Lease negotiation covers agreeing new leases and renegotiating existing ones, usually run by a council or public body's estates or legal team. Lease management covers the ongoing admin: rent reviews, renewals, dilapidations and lease accounting. Both get procured separately, or bundled into a wider estates management framework.

Stotles brings together lease 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. Lease advice and agency work is often called off from the Crown Commercial Service estate management framework, whose agency and lease management lot covers rent reviews and lease renewals.

Lease tenders are scored on market knowledge, negotiating track record, team qualifications, fee basis and conflict checks. Many appointments are single-estate commissions, so local market experience weighs heavily.

Property advisers are usually expected to be RICS regulated, and valuations follow the RICS Red Book. Tenders usually set minimum professional indemnity insurance, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar commissions at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Lease buying is mostly single-estate appointments of a property agent, sometimes called off the Crown Commercial Service estate management framework. Councils, housing associations and charities are the buyers of lease services.

Read finance and governance reviews, compliance requirements, framework renewal dates and expiry dates for existing contracts, which show lease 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.

Lease management notices carry 70300000 (Real estate agency services on a fee or contract basis) and the broader 70000000 (Real estate services).