Timber Tenders and Contracts

Timber frame tenders cover the design, manufacture, supply and erection of structural timber frames for buildings, and the timber frame suppliers and manufacturers who deliver that work: closed panel and open panel systems, prefabricated timber frame packages, and the carpentry that goes with erecting them. It does not cover general joinery, timber windows and doors, or refurbishment work that happens to mention a timber-framed building in passing.

Stotles brings together timber frame 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. Housing associations and community developers let timber frame erection as a works package on a named scheme, sometimes with options for future developments.

Structural timber frames must meet Building Regulations and the relevant BS EN 1995 design standard, 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.

Frame suppliers are often appointed ahead of a wider design-and-build contract, or through a partnership or framework of timber frame providers. Housing associations and councils are regular buyers, alongside main contractors appointing timber frame subcontractors.

Most timber frame notices are already awarded or closed, with only a few open for bids at any one time. Timber frame work is usually procured as part of a wider new-build or development scheme rather than as a standalone tender, so volumes are low and lumpy: a handful of large housing association contracts account for most of what is on record.

Read housing association development pipelines, council housing delivery plans, planning approvals for new-build schemes and main contractor appointments, which show timber frame 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.

Timber frame notices carry 03419100 (Timber products) and 45420000 (Joinery and carpentry installation work).