Dog Kennel Tenders and Contracts

Dog kennel contracts cover collecting stray dogs, housing and feeding them in licensed kennels, and reuniting them with owners or rehoming them if unclaimed. Some contracts combine dog warden and kennelling work or add out of hours collection, and police forces buy kennelling for dangerous, seized and prisoners' dogs.

Stotles brings together dog kennel 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. Councils usually let dog kennelling as a contract for their own area, and police forces buy kennelling for seized dogs, sometimes through regional collaborations.

Dog kennel tenders are scored on welfare standards, kennel capacity and location, collection response times, rehoming rates and price. Many contracts run for several years with the same provider, so the expiry of the current contract is the moment to bid.

Kennels must hold an animal boarding licence from the local council under the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018 or the equivalent elsewhere. 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.

Many contracts are let by a single council or police force for its own area. Some are split into lots by geography, or combined with a separate stray dog collection contract.

Local councils buy kennelling for stray dogs under their duty in the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Police forces buy kennelling for dangerous, seized and prisoners' dogs held in custody.

Read stray dog service reviews, dog warden contract expiry dates, police kennelling arrangements and council animal welfare plans, which show dog kennel 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.

Dog kennel notices carry 98380000 (Dog kennel services).