Timber Tenders

Timber frame tenders cover the design, manufacture, supply and erection of structural timber frames for buildings, plus the timber frame suppliers and manufacturers who deliver that work: closed panel and open panel systems, prefabricated timber frame packages, and the carpentry that goes with erecting them. It does not cover general joinery, timber windows and doors, or refurbishment work that happens to mention a timber-framed building in passing. Most notices on Stotles are for housing schemes, either new-build homes or extensions and community buildings using offsite timber frame construction.

Search live tenders on the portals, or get ahead of them on Stotles by tracking housing associations' and local authorities' new-build pipelines and development strategy documents before a timber frame notice goes out. Filter by stage to separate what is open now from what has already been awarded, and set an alert so a new timber frame notice reaches you the day it publishes.

Mostly awarded or closed. Of the 58 timber frame notices on record, 19 are awarded contracts and 5 sit at pre-tender, with none open for bids right now. Timber frame work is usually procured as part of a wider new-build or development scheme rather than as a standalone tender, so volumes are low and lumpy: a handful of large housing association contracts account for most of what is on record.

The two CPV codes that come up most often are 03419100 (Timber products) and 45420000 (Joinery and carpentry installation work). Neither is used to filter this page: buyers code timber frame notices inconsistently, and filtering on CPV code alone would hide genuinely on-topic tenders, so the search runs on keywords instead.

Timber frame is one of several modern methods of construction (MMC) used for public sector housing, alongside light gauge steel frame and structural insulated panel (SIP) systems. A timber frame is built from a factory-manufactured timber structure, either as closed panels (insulation and often cladding fitted before delivery) or open panels (fitted with insulation on site). Both routes appear in the notices Stotles tracks, usually named directly rather than grouped under a generic MMC label.

Corpus notices update continuously rather than on a fixed schedule. Platform-wide, 0 new notices are added to Stotles every week, and a timber frame alert catches one the moment it is tagged, rather than waiting on a periodic re-scrape.