Road Furniture Tenders and Contracts

Road furniture covers signposts, traffic signs, bollards, barriers, benches and similar fixed street items. Notices range from supplying signs and posts to installing new street furniture, repairing safety barriers damaged in collisions and temporarily removing furniture for events.

Stotles brings together road furniture 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. Road furniture is usually bought inside highway maintenance programmes and public realm schemes, with signs and posts also supplied under dedicated supply contracts.

Road furniture tenders are scored on product compliance, supply lead times, installation capability, price and sustainability. Supply contracts run for several years, so reliable delivery leads to renewals.

Traffic signs must meet the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016, and vehicle restraint systems must meet BS EN 1317. 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.

Both. Some notices are standalone supply or installation contracts, such as a county council contract for traffic signs and sign posts. Others are one element of a larger highway maintenance or public realm scheme covering several items.

Local councils and highway authorities are the regular buyers, procuring road furniture as part of highway maintenance programmes, town centre improvement schemes or one-off event logistics.

Read highway maintenance programmes, public realm and town centre schemes, hostile vehicle mitigation plans and supply contract expiry dates, which show road furniture 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.

Road furniture has its own code, 34928000, with sign posts under 34928472, bollards under 34928450 and crash barriers under 34928100. Installation of street furniture is classed under 45233293.