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 606 notices alongside the keyword filter. 79931000, Interior decorating services, adds a further 178. 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.

1,038 decorating contracts have been awarded to date across the UK public sector, tracked by Stotles. Only 15 notices are open at any one time, since most decorating work happens on named cyclical programmes rather than reappearing as fresh open competitions.