Cabling Contracts and Tenders

There are 8 cabling notices at OPEN stage in the corpus today, alongside 53 sitting at pre-tender stage and 482 already awarded. Cabling is a narrower category than broader IT or construction topics, so the open count moves quickly and is worth checking again rather than relied on as a snapshot.

Cabling contracts cover structured cabling, data cabling and network cabling: the containment, cable runs, testing and certification that link phones, computers, CCTV and access control back to the network. CPV code 32421000 (Network cabling) appears on 304 of the notices matching this filter, and 45314320 (Installation of computer cabling) on 119 of them, the two most common codes in the corpus.

Framework call-offs are common. The corpus includes Dover Harbour Board's IT Infrastructure Framework, which sets aside a Data Cabling and Infrastructure lot, Staffordshire County Council's Data Cabling framework covering voice and data cabling across its estate, and United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust's IT Data Cabling Framework. Across UK suppliers generally, 44% say frameworks are their main route to market.

Both, plus universities and transport bodies. The sample includes council-level work such as Caerphilly County Borough Council's structured cabling contract and Lancaster City Council's platform electrical and data cabling job, NHS deals like NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde's network cabling quick quote, and infrastructure buyers such as Transport for Wales' fibre cable management on the Core Valley Lines project. No single buyer type dominates the sample.

Often bundled. The corpus includes cabling let as its own line, such as Coleg Gwent's structured cabling tender, and cabling as one lot inside a wider deal, such as Dover Harbour Board's IT Infrastructure Framework, which pairs a Data Cabling and Infrastructure lot with CCTV, access control and radio lots. Check a notice's lot list before assuming a cabling requirement stands alone.