Custom Tenders

Two routes. Watch the print and signage frameworks that councils, police forces and transport authorities run, because livery and graphics usually sit inside them as a lot rather than as their own tender. Or move earlier, and read the fleet replacement plans and rebrand papers that say a livery job is coming. Stotles pulls notices from 100+ portals and keeps the buyer documents beside them. Platform-wide, 2 notices were added last week.

Three carry most of this work. 34928470 (Signage) sits on 49 of the matching notices, 22000000 (Printed matter and related products) on 53, and 50117000 (Vehicle conversion and reconditioning services) on 19. None of the three belongs to graphics alone, so a code filter on its own will miss the wrap lot buried in a fleet conversion contract.

Not steadily. Across every stage there are 392 notices on record and 196 awards, but nothing was published in the most recent seven days of data and only a handful in the month before that. Set an alert rather than checking back: the gap between one police livery framework and the next is measured in months, not weeks.

Emergency service fleets show up most often in the notices themselves, because conspicuity markings are specified centrally and reapplied whenever a vehicle joins or leaves a fleet. Transport authorities buy bus and rolling stock wraps. Councils, colleges and NHS trusts buy the interior side: wall graphics, window manifestations and wayfinding vinyl, usually folded into a refurbishment.

It overlaps heavily. Print and signage frameworks are where most wrap, decal and wall graphics lots live, and buyers title them that way rather than by the material. The line worth holding is application: this page filters on the applied-vinyl work, so it catches the graphics lot inside a wider print framework and leaves general commercial print to the printing page.