CCTV Tenders and Contracts

A CCTV tender usually covers the supply, installation, monitoring or maintenance of security cameras and surveillance systems for public buildings, town centres, depots or housing estates. It does not include drain or sewer camera surveys, which use the same acronym but sit in a different trade entirely.

Local councils, housing associations, NHS trusts, universities, transport operators and blue light services all run CCTV tenders. Councils often combine camera installation with a control room monitoring contract, while housing associations tend to buy standalone maintenance or temporary CCTV for void properties and construction sites.

Installation tenders cover supplying and fitting cameras, cabling and recording equipment. Monitoring tenders cover the ongoing service: staffing a control room, watching live feeds and responding to incidents. Many contracts bundle both, alongside servicing and reactive maintenance.

Yes. Buyers use temporary CCTV to cover construction sites, void properties, waste sites and one-off events, then have it removed once the need has passed. These sit alongside permanent installation and monitoring work in the same tender pipeline.

CCTV tenders map most often to CPV codes 35120000 (surveillance and security systems and devices), 32234000 (closed-circuit television cameras), 92222000 (closed circuit television services) and 35125300 (security cameras). Buyers rarely use just one code, so most notices carry two or three of these together.