Painting Contracts and Tenders

Most are cyclical decoration contracts for council and housing association stock, split into internal and external painting lots. Others cover protective coating and repainting of bridges, steelwork, lighthouses and transport infrastructure, along with one-off painting works tied to school and civic building refurbishments.

Stotles brings together painting and decorating 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. Cyclical painting programmes for housing stock appear on Find a Tender, while smaller decorating jobs often appear only on Contracts Finder or a council's own portal.

Painting tenders are scored on price, often per property or per square metre, alongside method, materials, programme and how occupied homes and buildings are protected. Housing associations let cyclical painting through multi-year contracts and frameworks, so getting listed comes before winning individual programmes.

Painting work at height must follow the Work at Height Regulations 2005, and older buildings bring lead paint and asbestos risks that buyers expect contractors to manage. 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.

Many do. Painting and decorating work is commonly procured through measured term contracts, framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems rather than one-off tenders, letting buyers call off repeat cyclical painting work from an approved list of contractors without retendering each time.

Fusion21's painting, decorating and associated repairs framework has a housing lot and is called off directly by housing providers and councils, including Citizen Housing Group, Derby Homes and Northumberland County Council, for internal and external painting works.

The Procurement for Housing planned works framework includes a lot for cyclical painting and decoration, used by housing bodies such as Golden Lane Housing and by councils such as Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council for external repairs and redecoration schemes.

Cyclical painting is let as multi-year programmes or external planned maintenance contracts, often split into internal and external lots and called off from the Fusion21 painting framework or Procurement for Housing planned works. Housing associations, councils, community and heritage venues and defence estates are the buyers of painting.

Read capital programmes, planned maintenance schedules, estate condition surveys and early market engagement notices, which show painting 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.

Painting notices carry 45442100 (Painting work), 45442110 (Painting work of buildings), 45440000 (Painting and glazing work) and 45442180 (Repainting work).