Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Tenders and Contracts

A mechanical and electrical engineering tender covers the design, installation and maintenance of a building's mechanical and electrical systems, from heating and ventilation to power, lighting and fire safety systems. Many contracts are let as multi-year contracts or frameworks covering several trades at once.

Stotles brings together mechanical and electrical engineering 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. Mechanical and electrical design is often a lot within a consultancy framework, and installation and maintenance run as separate mechanical and electrical lots on estates frameworks.

Mechanical and electrical engineering tenders are scored on technical approach, team qualifications, energy and decarbonisation expertise, programme and fee or price. Frameworks split work into lots, so a framework place opens up repeat call-offs.

Electrical work must follow BS 7671, gas work needs Gas Safe registered engineers, and designers carry duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015. 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.

Both appear. Some notices cover a single building project, and others establish multi-year frameworks that several suppliers can be appointed to across a number of lots.

Councils, universities, NHS bodies and other public sector estates and facilities teams procure this work to maintain, refurbish or fit out buildings they own or manage.

Read estates capital programmes, planned maintenance schedules, plant replacement plans and early market engagement notices for design consultancy, which show work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the estates teams behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Mechanical and electrical notices carry 71334000 (Mechanical and electrical engineering services), 71321000 (Engineering design services for mechanical and electrical installations for buildings), 71333000 (Mechanical engineering services) and 45350000 (Mechanical installations).