Structural Tenders and Contracts

Structural tenders cover two distinct things, bid for by different firms. Consultancy: structural engineers appointed to design teams, RIBA-stage appointments, condition and geotechnical surveys, RAAC management and re-inspection. Works: structural repairs to lintels and balconies, roof structure strengthening, structural steelwork and cladding packages, alterations for change of use. Councils, housing providers, colleges and utilities all buy both, often on the same building.

Stotles brings together structural 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. Structural consultancy is mostly called off from professional services frameworks such as NHS Shared Business Services construction consultancy, while repairs and strengthening are tendered individually or through repairs frameworks.

Structural engineers are usually expected to be chartered with the IStructE or ICE, and designers carry duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015. Tenders usually set minimum professional indemnity insurance, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar commissions at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Consultancy often comes through professional frameworks such as NHS SBS construction consultancy; repairs and strengthening go out individually or via repair frameworks. Councils, highway authorities, housing associations, NHS bodies, universities and port authorities are the main buyers.

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

Structural notices carry 71312000 (Structural engineering consultancy services), 45223200 (Structural works) and 45223210 (Structural steelworks). Plenty of on-intent notices carry a broader architectural or construction code instead, or none at all, so codes are a way in rather than a complete list.