How to find construction and facilities management tenders in the UK

Public bodies let a steady stream of works and facilities contracts: school refurbishments, housing repairs, road maintenance, office moves, hard and soft facilities management. The notices are official and free to read. This guide shows how to find them.

Official sources

For new UK procurements started on or after 24 February 2025, search Find a Tender. It is the central digital platform under the Procurement Act 2023, and it carries both above-threshold and below-threshold notices for new work, except below-threshold notices in Scotland. Those, according to Find a Tender, are published on Public Contracts Scotland. Also use Sell2Wales and eTendersNI where relevant.

Contracts Finder still holds older and transitional notices, including some awards under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. See Find a Tender vs Contracts Finder.

Buyers include local authorities, government departments, NHS trusts, housing associations that are contracting authorities, universities, police and fire bodies, and the businesses that buy on their behalf.

How to search

1. Open the Find a Tender search.
2. Use keywords for your trade (for example roofing, planned maintenance, minor works, decoration, mechanical and electrical, grounds maintenance, or facilities management) and, separately, the CPV codes used on official notices. Works are often coded more broadly than a trade description, so run both.
3. CPV codes commonly used for this work include: - 45000000 — Construction work - 45200000 — Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work - 45300000 — Building installation work - 45400000 — Building completion work - 50000000 — Repair and maintenance services - 79993000 — Building and facilities management services - 79993100 — Facilities management services
4. Filter by region. Unlike many software contracts, construction and on-site facilities work is usually tied to a place. If a notice covers several regions or is a national framework, read whether there are regional lots you can bid for on their own.
5. Pay particular attention to pipeline notices and preliminary market engagement notices. Larger works and FM retenders are often signalled months in advance.
6. Open the official notice for the estimated value, deadline, site location, whether it is a works contract, a term-service contract or a framework, any minimum turnover or insurance requirements, and the e-tendering portal for submissions.

Facilities contracts sometimes bundle cleaning, security, catering and maintenance. A “soft FM” or “hard FM” title may matter more than the word “construction”. For cleaning-led work, see how to find council cleaning contracts.

Award notices are useful even when you are not bidding. They show which authorities let the kind of work you do, and who won, which can inform later subcontract or supply approaches. Those award records are public under the Open Government Licence.

Official alerts and supplier registration

Sign in to Find a Tender with a GOV.UK One Login, save your search and turn on official email notifications. That is the free, official alert. If you intend to bid, register as a supplier and complete your core information so you can share it when a buyer asks.

Some authorities also publish a contracts register or a capital programme on their own website. Treat those as extra context, not a substitute for the official notice.

If you would rather have one daily email

UK Tender Alerts sends a daily digest of new official notices from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, filtered by your trade keywords, CPV prefixes (for example 45, 50 or 79993), regions and value range.

Start a 14-day free trial, then £15 a month. Cancel any time. Every line links back to the official notice, which you should always read before you bid. The service is a filter over public data and does not guarantee that every notice is listed or still open.