Snow Clearing Tenders and Contracts

Snow clearing procurement covers snow and ice clearance and gritting of roads, car parks and footways, the supply of road salt, and winter maintenance vehicles and equipment. Snow clearing and gritting also appears as a line inside grounds maintenance and facilities management contracts.

Stotles brings together snow clearing 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 authorities run gritting in-house or through highways term contracts, while councils, NHS trusts and universities tender snow clearing for their own sites as winter season contracts.

Highway gritting follows the Well-managed Highway Infrastructure code of practice, and crews working on public roads need Chapter 8 traffic management competence. 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.

Often. Road salt, also called rock salt or grit, is spread on roads, footways and car parks to stop ice forming and to melt existing snow and ice. Some tenders also ask for storage bins, spreaders and gritter vehicles.

Councils, NHS trusts, universities, colleges and housing associations buy snow clearing and gritting services to keep roads, car parks and footways safe in winter.

Many snow clearing and gritting contracts run for a fixed winter period, or form part of a multi-year framework covering several winters. Some are stand-by arrangements only called on when snow or ice is forecast.

Read winter service plans, gritting route reviews, estates winter maintenance schedules and expiry dates for existing winter 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.

Snow clearing notices carry 90620000 (Snow-clearing services), 90630000 (Ice-clearing services), 44113910 (Winter-maintenance materials) and 34143000 (Winter-maintenance vehicles).