Refurbishment Tenders and Contracts

A refurbishment tender covers work to upgrade, repair or modernise an existing building rather than build a new one. This includes void property works, building envelope upgrades and internal refits of offices, homes and public buildings.

Stotles brings together refurbishment 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. Larger refurbishment programmes appear on Find a Tender, while smaller works often appear only on Contracts Finder or a buyer's own portal, and Ministry of Defence housing refurbishments appear on the Defence Sourcing Portal.

Refurbishment tenders are scored on price alongside programme, method, managing work in occupied buildings, quality and health and safety. Councils and housing associations let a lot of refurbishment through frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems, so getting listed comes before winning individual schemes.

Refurbishment work brings duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, and work on older buildings needs asbestos surveys and controls under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar schemes at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Refurbishment is tendered as single projects, as design and build packages, or through frameworks for void works and capital programmes. One notice sometimes covers refurbishment and new-build where a project extends or rebuilds part of an older building.

Councils are regular buyers, covering housing stock and void properties between tenants. Housing associations, NHS trusts and other public bodies also commission refurbishment of their own buildings.

Read capital programmes, housing investment plans, estates condition surveys and void property schedules, 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.

The core codes are 45453100 (Refurbishment work) and 45262690 (Refurbishment of run-down buildings), and larger schemes also carry 45000000 (Construction work).