Drainage Tenders and Contracts

Drainage procurement covers new below-ground drainage construction, including pipe runs, manholes and reinstatement work, and gully cleaning and emptying contracts for road and site gullies. Related notices cover drain repairs and call-outs, jetting and CCTV surveys, and haulage, treatment and recycling of gully waste.

Stotles brings together drainage 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. Gully cleaning and drainage surveys are often called off from highways frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems, and drainage construction usually sits inside a wider civils contract.

Drainage tenders are scored on price, plant and vehicle availability, response times, waste handling and safety record. Gully cleaning is often split into lots by area, so contractors can bid where they operate.

Gully waste must be moved by a registered waste carrier and handled under waste duty of care rules, and work on the highway needs street works accreditation. 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.

Drainage construction usually forms part of a wider building or civils project. Gully cleaning is bought as a term contract, a multi-lot framework or a parish lengthsman scheme, and gully waste disposal can be called off a waste dynamic purchasing system.

Councils are regular buyers, both for their own highway network and for buildings and housing stock they manage. Fire and rescue authorities, housing associations and other public bodies also run their own drainage contracts.

Read highway maintenance plans, gully cleansing schedules, housing repairs programmes and drainage survey requirements, 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.

Drainage notices carry 45232452 (Drainage works), 90470000 (Sewer cleaning services) and 90400000 (Sewage services). Gully waste haulage and treatment is classified under 90500000 (Refuse and waste related services).