Switchgear Tenders and Contracts

Switchgear procurement covers the supply, replacement and maintenance of low and high voltage switchgear, switchboards, distribution boards and circuit breakers, including high voltage maintenance and emergency response. Substation, generator and fixed wiring work often includes switchgear as one element.

Stotles brings together switchgear 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. Network operators buy switchgear through multi-supplier frameworks under the utilities rules, while public estates fold replacements into electrical works and maintenance frameworks.

Switchgear work must follow the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, low voltage assemblies must meet BS EN 61439, and high voltage switching needs authorised persons. 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.

Yes. Network operators and public buyers commonly establish multi-supplier frameworks for switchgear supply, installation and maintenance, then call off individual projects under them.

Electricity distribution and transmission network operators are often buyers of switchgear. NHS trusts, universities and councils also procure switchgear replacement and maintenance work for their own sites.

Read estate electrical condition surveys, high voltage maintenance plans, network operator investment plans and framework renewal dates, which show switchgear 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.

Switchgear notices carry 31214000 (Switchgear), 31214500 (Electric switchboards), 31212000 (Circuit breakers) and 50711000 (Repair and maintenance services of electrical building installations).