Short Stay Accommodation Tenders and Contracts

Short stay accommodation tenders cover furnished lettings, temporary housing, nightly paid emergency accommodation and short-term supported accommodation arranged by councils for people who need somewhere to live at short notice. This includes housing for care leavers, homeless households and families without recourse to public funds.

Stotles brings together short stay accommodation 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. Councils increasingly buy nightly paid and temporary accommodation through dynamic purchasing systems and open frameworks that suppliers can join during the term.

Accommodation must meet housing fitness and HMO licensing standards where they apply, and providers supporting vulnerable residents need safeguarding policies and DBS-checked staff. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar services at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Many run as dynamic purchasing systems or framework agreements that let councils call off furnished properties as needed, rather than as single fixed-term contracts. Individual placements are then awarded under those frameworks as demand arises.

Local councils and London boroughs are regular buyers, procuring through their housing and social care teams. Contracts are awarded to housing associations, care providers, hotels and private landlords.

Read homelessness and rough sleeping strategies, temporary accommodation reviews, framework and dynamic purchasing system renewal dates and market engagement events, which show work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the councils behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Short stay accommodation notices carry 55250000 (Letting services of short-stay furnished accommodation), 55110000 (Hotel accommodation services) and 55270000 (Services provided by bed and breakfast establishments). Many council notices carry only 85000000 (Health and social work services).