Plastic Film Tenders and Contracts

Plastic film tenders cover cling film and other flexible plastic wrap bought as a catering disposable, most often inside a wider framework agreement for disposable catering supplies alongside foil and greaseproof paper.

Stotles brings together plastic film 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. Cling film is mostly bought through catering disposables frameworks run by national buying consortia such as ESPO.

Cling film for food use must meet food contact materials regulations, and suppliers must meet packaging waste rules. 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.

Rarely. Most notices bundle cling film with foil, greaseproof paper and food containers inside one catering disposables lot, so cling film usually arrives as part of a wider disposables framework.

Councils, universities and NHS bodies buy plastic film, mostly through a catering disposables or catering supplies framework rather than a standalone contract for film alone.

Read catering disposables framework renewal dates, school meals and hospital catering contract reviews and sustainability plans for single-use plastics, which show plastic film 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.

Cling film has its own code, 32354800, though a catering disposables notice usually lists it alongside catering supplies 39222000, tableware 39221200, food containers 39221130 and greaseproof paper 37823100.