Storage Tenders and Contracts

Storage tenders cover physical storage: document and records storage, archive and special-collection storage for libraries and museums, warehousing, self storage and the removals services that often go alongside a storage contract.

Stotles brings together storage 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. Document and records storage is often called off from the ESPO document management solutions framework or the Crown Commercial Service records information management framework.

Records storage must meet UK data protection law and, for public records, The National Archives' standards, and secure destruction should follow BS EN 15713. 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.

Document and records storage is often bought through two shared frameworks. The ESPO document management solutions framework covers off-site document storage and retrieval alongside digitisation and shredding, and NHS trusts and councils call off from it, often by direct award.

The Crown Commercial Service records information management, digital solutions and associated services framework covers off-site records storage and management. Central government bodies, NHS bodies and councils call off from it by direct award or further competition.

Buyers are a wide mix. NHS trusts store pathology samples and patient records, national libraries and parliamentary bodies store archive and special collections, and councils buy general document storage, records storage and removals-and-storage services for property moves and estate changes.

Read records management strategies, office moves and estate rationalisation plans, digitisation programmes and expiry dates for existing storage contracts, which show storage 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.

Storage notices carry 63121000 (Storage and retrieval services), 63120000 (Storage and warehousing services) and 63121100 (Storage services).