Street Lamps Tenders and Contracts

Street lamps tenders cover the supply, installation, testing and maintenance of street lighting columns and LED lanterns. They also include structural condition surveys and the removal of old lighting equipment.

Stotles brings together street lighting 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. Street lighting maintenance is let as term contracts or lots in highways frameworks, and several large street lighting PFI contracts are nearing their end, with successor arrangements now being procured.

Street lighting tenders are scored on fault response times, repair performance, energy-saving proposals, safety record and schedule of rates pricing. Term contracts run for several years, so performance decides renewals.

Highway electrical work usually needs Highway Electrical Registration Scheme registration and work to BS 7671, and street works need qualifications 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.

In many cases, yes. Maintenance is tendered as its own contract, separate from the capital works that install new columns or lanterns.

Councils and highway authorities are the regular buyers, National Highways lets lighting packages on major road schemes, and town councils let smaller maintenance contracts. A tender can cover a single town's lantern replacement or a maintenance agreement for an entire road network.

Read street lighting PFI expiry dates, LED conversion programmes, highway asset management plans and column condition survey results, which show street lighting 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.

Street lamps have their own code, 34928530, within street-lighting equipment 34928500 and street-lighting columns 34928510. Maintenance is classed as street-lighting maintenance services 50232100 and installation as installation of road lighting equipment 45316110.