Signage Tenders and Contracts

Signage tenders cover the design, supply, installation and maintenance of signs, including illuminated and non-illuminated units, notice boards and road signs. Some are let as small one-off jobs, others as multi-year framework agreements.

Stotles brings together signage 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. Highway signs are often called off from highways frameworks, and wayfinding schemes appear on councils' own portals as well as Find a Tender.

Signage tenders are scored on design and manufacture quality, materials and durability, installation programme and price. Highway sign work also scores compliance with traffic signs rules, and wayfinding schemes reward design experience.

Highway signs must comply with the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016, and installation on roads needs operatives qualified under the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991. 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.

Road sign contracts are let by highways authorities and county councils, sometimes as part of a wider highways maintenance contract. Others are tendered on their own for a specific scheme or site.

Councils, highways authorities, housing associations and NHS trusts buy signage and notice boards. A single council replacement board and a multi-site wayfinding scheme both fall under this category.

Read wayfinding and town centre regeneration programmes, highway maintenance plans, estate redevelopment projects and visitor attraction capital schemes, 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.

Signage notices carry 34928470 (Signage), 34928472 (Sign posts) and 45233290 (Installation of road signs). Road sign supply is sometimes classified under 34928000 (Road furniture).