Decorating Tenders and Contracts

Search live decorating tenders on Stotles, or move earlier by reading the buyer documents and budget papers that flag a redecoration programme before it becomes a live notice. Housing associations and councils tend to run these on a rolling cycle, so last year's award is a reasonable guide to when the next lot goes out.

Most are cyclical or planned redecoration contracts covering housing stock, communal areas, schools and public buildings: internal and external decoration, surface preparation, minor repairs and access equipment such as scaffolding, usually let as a term contract or framework rather than a single job.

Often, yes. Many notices are titled painting and decorating and combine both trades under one contract, particularly for housing repairs and school redecoration programmes. A minority use decoration alone, usually for cyclical housing or heritage work where painting is one part of a wider redecoration scope.

The main code is 45451000, Decoration work, which returns 698 notices alongside the keyword filter. 79931000, Interior decorating services, adds a further 201. Neither is applied as a filter on this page: keywords alone return more of the on-intent notices than keywords plus the codes, since plenty of decorating contracts carry no CPV code at all or carry a painting code instead.

1,250 decorating contracts have been awarded across the UK public sector, tracked by Stotles, out of 2,692 notices in total. Only a handful are open at any one time, since most decorating work happens on named cyclical programmes rather than reappearing as fresh open competitions.