Diving Tenders and Contracts

Diving procurement covers commercial diving frameworks for underwater inspection and engineering, ecological and marine survey diving, and diving support for utility, harbour and defence sites. Notices include both standalone diving contracts and diving lots inside wider engineering or environmental frameworks.

Stotles brings together diving 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. Water companies and harbour authorities often appoint diving contractors to frameworks, and some publish on utility portals and the Blue Light e-tendering portal.

Commercial diving must follow the Diving at Work Regulations 1997 and the relevant Approved Code of Practice, and divers need HSE-recognised qualifications. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar projects at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Water and utility companies, harbour and port authorities, environment agencies and defence bodies are regular buyers. They procure diving to inspect and maintain underwater assets, support marine ecological monitoring, or carry out engineering work below the waterline.

Read water company asset inspection programmes, harbour and port maintenance plans, marine monitoring programmes and framework renewal dates, which show 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.

Diving notices carry 98363000 (Diving services), and inspection work adds 71631000 (Technical inspection services).