Pest Control Tenders and Contracts

Public sector pest control contracts usually cover planned preventative inspections and reactive call-outs, across rodents, insects and birds. Bird proofing and associated works are often a separate lot with its own budget, priced apart from the treatment itself. Exclusions are worth reading before you price: one housing association notice carved out bee nest removal explicitly.

Stotles brings together pest control 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. Pest control is often called off the ESPO pest control framework, with bird control let as a separate lot.

Pest control tenders are scored on response times, technician competence, reporting, coverage across sites and price per visit. Contracts cover whole estates for several years, so reliable reporting leads to renewals.

Pest control technicians should hold recognised qualifications such as RSPH Level 2, rodenticide use must follow the CRRU stewardship regime, and buyers often expect BPCA membership. 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.

Pest control is usually an estate-wide contract with planned inspections and reactive call-outs under one agreement, and many contracts are call-offs from the ESPO pest control framework. Bird control is often let as a separate lot.

Housing associations, councils, fire and rescue authorities and further education colleges all tender for pest control, usually to cover a whole estate rather than one building. Central government departments buy it too, including for overseas posts.

Read estate maintenance plans, pest control contract expiry dates, housing repairs programmes and framework renewal dates, which show pest control 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.

90922000, Pest-control services, is the main one. 90921000, Disinfecting and exterminating services, and 90923000, Rat-disinfestation services, turn up alongside it, often all three on a single notice.