Lifting and Handling Equipment Tenders and Contracts

Lifting and handling equipment tenders cover cranes, derricks, hoists, forklifts and other equipment used to lift, move or handle loads, and their installation, hire, servicing and repair. Public bodies buy it for warehouses, depots, healthcare estates and construction sites.

Stotles brings together lifting and handling equipment 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. Lifting and handling equipment is often called off from fleet, plant and home adaptation frameworks, and servicing is let as term contracts split into lots by equipment type.

Lifting and handling tenders are scored on equipment specification, inspection and servicing capability, response times, operator training and whole-life cost. Servicing contracts recur on statutory cycles, so reliable reporting leads to renewals.

Lifting equipment must be thoroughly examined under LOLER and maintained under PUWER, and operators need recognised training. 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.

Buyers include local councils, NHS and social care bodies, transport operators, universities and further education estates teams, and construction programmes that need a crane or hoist for a specific project.

Read planned maintenance programmes, statutory lifting equipment inspection cycles, warehouse and depot investment plans and home adaptation budgets, which show when equipment is due for servicing or replacement. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Lifting and handling notices carry 42400000 (Lifting and handling equipment and parts), 42416120 (Goods lifts), 42416130 (Mechanical lifts), 45313000 (Lift and escalator installation work) and 50530000 (Repair and maintenance services of machinery).