Electrical Contracts and Tenders

Watch the main portals, Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland and eTenders in Ireland, for notices marked electrical installation, electrical services or EICR. Framework agreements are usually the better route in: once a buyer sets one up, individual jobs get called off under it without a fresh advert, so getting onto the framework matters more than catching every one-off notice. Recurring compliance work, EICR inspections especially, tends to retender on a cycle, so a buyer that ran one recently is worth flagging for next time.

The main ones are 45310000 (Electrical installation work), 71314100 (Electrical services), 45311000 (Electrical wiring and fitting work) and 45317000 (Other electrical installation work). None of these are applied as a filter on this page: buyers frequently leave the CPV field blank or pick a neighbouring code, so keyword matching alone catches more genuine electrical work than the codes would on their own.

Usually. Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) contracts are recurring compliance work: periodic testing and remedial fixes across a housing or estates portfolio, often let as a measured term contract. Installation tenders are one-off capital projects, rewiring a building, replacing a distribution board, fitting out a new site. Both turn up in this search, but they are different buying decisions with different contract lengths and different specialists bidding for them.

Often. A school refurbishment, a hospital ward upgrade or a housing retrofit programme will usually list electrical work as one line item inside a much larger scope, awarded to a principal contractor rather than an electrical specialist directly. Mechanical and electrical (M&E) frameworks bundle electrical alongside heating, ventilation and fire safety work under one set of lots. Suppliers bidding on electrical work alone should expect a mix of standalone electrical notices and larger multi-trade ones.

Yes, though the words rarely appear together as a search phrase in a live notice. Stotles covers the UK, Great Britain and Ireland in one search by default, so Northern Ireland notices sit inside the same electrical results rather than behind a separate NI filter. NHMF, for example, ran preliminary market engagement in August 2026 for a dedicated Mechanical and Electrical framework for Northern Ireland housing providers. Add a council or trust name to the search to narrow to Northern Ireland specifically.