Packaging Tenders and Contracts

Packaging tenders cover the supply of packaging materials and products, protective and transit packaging, and packaging design work. Some notices also relate to packaging waste and compliance work under the UK's extended producer responsibility scheme.

Stotles brings together packaging 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. Packaging is often bought through frameworks split into lots by product type, or bundled into wider supply and transport contracts.

Packaging suppliers must meet packaging waste and extended producer responsibility rules, and food contact packaging must meet food contact materials regulations. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar supply contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Packaging is bought by government departments, purchasing consortia and prison services, often as a framework with lots by product type, and sometimes bundled into wider services such as fine art transport.

Packaging is sometimes bought as its own contract, such as for packaging materials or design work, and sometimes bundled into a wider service such as catering supply or fine art transport.

Read supply framework renewals, prison and logistics operations plans, sustainability and extended producer responsibility reviews and expiry dates for existing supply contracts, 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.

Packaging has no single CPV code, so notices are filed under the codes for the materials bought or for design services.