Surface Work for Roads Tenders and Contracts

Notices cover resurfacing roads and carriageways, surface dressing, and repairing potholes and worn road surfaces. Some contracts cover a single road or car park. Others are term contracts covering a whole highway network over several years.

Stotles brings together road surfacing 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. Road surfacing is let as annual resurfacing programmes, highways term contracts and call-offs from regional highways frameworks, with smaller car park and footway jobs quoted locally.

Road surfacing tenders are scored on schedule of rates pricing, programme, traffic management, quality and safety record. Highways frameworks run for several years, so a framework place opens up repeat schemes.

Highway surfacing must meet the Specification for Highway Works, operatives need street works qualifications under the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, and site work brings duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015. 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.

Both appear. Some carriageway resurfacing schemes are let as single contracts. Larger highway authorities also appoint suppliers onto multi-year surfacing and maintenance frameworks and call off individual schemes from them.

Local councils and highway authorities are frequent buyers of road surfacing and resurfacing work. Some of it is procured through the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland or through highway maintenance frameworks.

Read annual resurfacing programmes, highway asset management plans, car park and footpath maintenance budgets and pothole repair strategies, which show work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the highway authorities behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Road surfacing notices carry 45233251 (Resurfacing works), 45233223 (Carriageway resurfacing works), 45233142 (Road-repair works) and 45233253 (Surface work for footpaths). Many carry only the general construction code 45000000.