Guarding Tenders and Contracts

Search live notices on Stotles, or watch a buyer's existing guarding contract for its retender date: core guarding contracts in this corpus mostly run one to three years. A growing share of NHS and council guarding spend is moving onto national frameworks rather than one-off tenders, so getting onto the right framework can matter more than catching every individual notice.

Manned and static guarding, mobile and security patrols, and ad hoc guarding cover. This is a narrower search than Stotles' broader Security Tenders and Contracts page, which also covers access control, alarm monitoring and close protection. If a notice is really about CCTV, alarms or access-control hardware rather than people on site, it belongs on that wider page instead.

The two most common are 79713000 (Guard services), which appears alongside this filter on 477 notices, and the broader 79710000 (Security services), on 1,426. Buyers use the broader code more often, since guarding is frequently bundled with patrols and response services under one security contract.

Councils, NHS trusts, museums, universities and government agencies run most of the volume, typically for site guarding, reception or concierge cover, and out-of-hours patrols. NHS Shared Business Services runs a national framework with a dedicated healthcare guarding lot that other NHS bodies call off against.

Increasingly, yes. NHS Shared Business Services was running preliminary market engagement in August 2026 for its third-generation Security Services and Surveillance Solutions framework, with a dedicated healthcare guarding lot, and several council and university guarding awards in the corpus are direct or call-off awards under similar regional or sector frameworks rather than fresh open tenders.