Textiles Tenders and Contracts

Public sector leather contracts cover a specific set: leather hides and upholstery leather for heritage and parliamentary furniture, leather gloves and boots for defence and emergency services, leather accoutrements and headwear trim for police forces, saddlery and harnesses, and leather used in bookbinding and conservation work.

Stotles brings together textiles 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. Police leather accessories sit as a lot in BlueLight Commercial's headwear and accoutrements framework, and heritage upholstery leather is tendered on its own.

Protective footwear and gloves must meet the relevant BS EN standards, such as BS EN ISO 20345 for safety footwear, and uniform items often need to match an approved specification. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar supply contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Police forces, fire and rescue services, prison industries and universities are among the buyers. Uniform items are usually bought through multi-lot clothing and accoutrements frameworks, with gloves and belts as separate lots.

Read equipment replacement plans, asset registers, framework renewal dates and expiry dates for existing supply contracts, which show textiles 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.

Textiles notices carry 19100000 (Leather) and 19280000 (Animal wool, hides and skins).