Christmas Tree Lights Tenders and Contracts

Festive lighting procurement covers the supply or hire, installation, testing, maintenance, removal and storage of Christmas lighting schemes, tree lighting and decoration, and the catenary wires and anchor points that carry street displays. Contracts are often split into lots by town or by type of display, and event power supply is bought with them.

Stotles brings together festive lighting 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. Town and district councils often publish festive lighting contracts on their own portals and Contracts Finder, usually in spring or summer ahead of the season.

Festive lighting tenders are scored on the display design, installation and removal programme, safety and testing, storage and price. Multi-year contracts reward suppliers that can show reliable delivery over several seasons.

Festive lighting installation is electrical work that must meet BS 7671, and work on street columns and buildings brings working at height duties. 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.

Town and district councils are regular buyers, running contracts to install, maintain and store festive lighting and Christmas tree displays in town centres over the winter season. A smaller number of universities and colleges also tender for campus lighting displays.

Many councils award a multi-year term of two to three years, with an option to extend rather than retendering every season. A few run single-season contracts instead.

Read town centre and events programmes, festive lighting contract expiry dates and inspection schedules for columns and fixings, which show festive lighting 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.

Festive lighting notices carry 31522000 (Christmas tree lights), and installation contracts often carry street lighting codes.