Access Ramps Tenders and Contracts

Access ramps and stairlifts tenders cover the supply, installation, servicing and repair of stairlifts, step lifts, through-floor lifts, ceiling track hoists and access ramps for homes and public buildings, including modular and portable ramps.

Stotles brings together access ramps and stairlifts 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. Councils often call off stairlifts and adaptations from housing frameworks such as the Northern Housing Consortium's stairlifts framework and Procurement for Housing's assisted living framework.

Stairlift and ramp tenders are scored on price, installation lead times, servicing and breakdown response, and the experience of residents during installation. Much of the work runs through adaptations frameworks, so a framework place opens up repeat installations.

Stairlifts and lifting equipment must be thoroughly examined under the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, and installers working in people's homes need appropriate DBS checks. 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. Some contracts cover a single stairlift or ramp installation for one property, while others sit inside wider aids and adaptations or community equipment frameworks covering ramps, stairlifts, hoists and other mobility equipment together.

Councils and housing associations are regular buyers, procuring through housing repairs and aids and adaptations programmes. NHS trusts and care providers also buy them directly for patients and residents who need home adaptations.

Read aids and adaptations budgets, housing repairs programmes, community equipment service reviews and framework renewal dates, which show work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the councils and housing associations behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Stairlift and ramp notices carry 44115600 (Stairlifts) and 33192600 (Lifting equipment for health care sector).