Legionella Tenders and Contracts

A legionella tender covers water hygiene compliance work: legionella risk assessment, water temperature monitoring, tank inspection and disinfection, TMV servicing, sampling and the remedial works carried out to meet HSE ACOP L8 and related water hygiene guidance. Most are let as term contracts for planned monitoring with reactive remedials priced separately, and larger estates often split risk assessment from monitoring so that two suppliers hold them.

Stotles brings together legionella 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. Legionella risk assessment and monitoring are often called off from compliance frameworks such as ESPO's and Fusion21's, or let as regional lots within larger water hygiene programmes.

Legionella tenders are scored on assessor competence, monitoring and reporting systems, response to failed samples, coverage across sites and price per visit. Contracts recur on statutory cycles, so reliable reporting leads to renewals.

Legionella work must follow the HSE L8 Approved Code of Practice and HSG274, and buyers often expect membership of the Legionella Control Association and UKAS-accredited sampling. 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.

Often, yes. Several councils run a dynamic market or multi-lot framework covering risk assessment, temperature monitoring and remedial works together, letting them call off individual sites or geographic areas without a fresh tender each time.

NHS trusts, councils and housing associations are the most frequent buyers, since all three run large property estates with a statutory duty to control legionella risk. A single authority often splits the work geographically across several parallel contracts rather than running one nationwide tender.

Read water safety plans, water safety group minutes, compliance programmes and expiry dates for existing water hygiene contracts, which show legionella 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.

Legionella and water hygiene notices carry 45232430 (Water-treatment work), 71630000 (Technical inspection and testing services) and 90913100 (Tank-cleaning services). Combined asbestos, legionella and mould contracts can carry a general cleaning and sanitation code such as 90600000 instead.