Wifi Contracts and Tenders

Notices run from wireless access point replacements and managed wifi services to campus network upgrades and public or guest wifi installs. Schools, NHS trusts, universities, and councils are regular buyers, and passenger wifi on trains and at stations shows up too.

Stotles brings together wifi 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. Wifi refreshes are often small direct awards or call-offs from the Network Services framework, and academy trusts bundle access points into network infrastructure upgrades.

Network equipment must meet UK radio equipment rules, public wifi must handle user data under UK data protection law, and government buyers often ask for Cyber Essentials. 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.

Some buyers call off wifi work through existing frameworks rather than running a fresh competition. The Network Services framework is a common route for fully managed wifi services.

Wifi buying is mostly call-offs from the CCS network services framework or small quotations for access point refreshes, with newer projects specifying the latest wifi standard. Academy trusts, colleges, NHS trusts, universities and councils refresh their own estates, and train operators buy passenger wifi.

Read digital and technology strategies, licence and contract renewal dates, architecture reviews and early market engagement notices, which show wifi 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.

Wifi notices carry 32510000 (Wireless telecommunications system) and 32420000 (Network equipment).