Tarmac Tenders and Contracts

Notices cover laying new tarmac, resurfacing roads, car parks and paths, and repairing potholes and cracked surfaces. Some contracts cover a single site such as a school or fire station car park. Others are term maintenance contracts covering a council's road network.

Stotles brings together tarmac 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. Single-site jobs such as a school or fire station car park are often let as one-off quotations, while highway teams call off resurfacing from term contracts and regional highways frameworks.

Tarmac tenders are scored on schedule of rates pricing, programme, traffic management, quality and safety record. Term contracts and frameworks run for several years, so a place on one opens up repeat work.

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. Smaller resurfacing jobs are let as single contracts. Larger buyers such as county councils appoint suppliers onto multi-year highway maintenance frameworks.

Local councils are regular buyers of tarmac and road surfacing work. Housing associations, NHS trusts and fire and rescue services also let this work. Some of it is procured through wider highway maintenance frameworks.

Read car park and footpath maintenance plans, highway resurfacing programmes and housing estate repair budgets, 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.

Tarmac notices carry 45233251 (Resurfacing works), 45233223 (Carriageway resurfacing works), 45233142 (Road-repair works) and 45233253 (Surface work for footpaths).