Television and Audio Visual Equipment Tenders and Contracts

A television and audio-visual equipment tender covers the supply, installation or repair of TVs, aerials, satellite dishes, digital reception or distribution systems and audio-visual equipment bought by a public sector body. Closed-circuit television is surveillance equipment and is tendered separately. Some notices appear as their own tender; others sit inside a wider refurbishment or fit-out contract.

Stotles brings together television and audio-visual equipment 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. NHS bodies call off audio-visual kit from NHS Shared Business Services' Digital Workplace Solutions framework, Scottish councils use the Scotland Excel audio-visual framework, and chamber refreshes are tendered on their own.

Installation work must meet BS 7671 wiring regulations, and webcasting and video conferencing systems that record meetings must handle data under UK data protection law. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar installations at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Smaller repair and maintenance work is let through an existing framework or consortium agreement. Larger refresh or installation projects are tendered as standalone contracts.

Councils, combined authorities, housing associations, universities and colleges are regular buyers. Many are replacing communal TV systems in student accommodation or public buildings, refreshing chamber and meeting room audio-visual equipment, or maintaining equipment already installed.

Read estates refresh programmes, digital meeting and webcasting plans, student accommodation upgrades and expiry dates for existing maintenance contracts, which show 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.

Television and audio-visual notices carry 32321200 (Audio-visual equipment) and 51000000 (Installation services except software). Managed audio-visual services bought as part of workplace technology contracts sometimes carry 72000000 (IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support).