This page lists the construction, building and maintenance contracts that UK public buyers have open today. Councils, housing associations, the NHS, schools and universities all put building work out to tender, and every notice below is a real one, published on an official procurement service and still open for bids.
Construction contracts open now
441 construction contracts are open right now.
That is every open notice from the last 30 days that a UK public buyer has put out for construction and building work, anywhere in the country. Some are one-off contracts and some are supplier lists being opened; each card says which it is.
Counted against 1,993 public notices from the last 30 days, read this morning. 5 of them are in the carousel below.
Supplier list opening
Tender to Establish a Framework for the Supply and Delivery of Various Containers at Household Recycling Centres
- Buyer
- Ards and North Down Borough Council
- Apply by
- 9 Nov 2026 (1 day left)
- Area
- Ards and North Down
- Value
- £220,000
- Notice
- ██████ subscribers only
Supplier list opening
Quarrying - North District
- Buyer
- Forestry Commission
- Apply by
- 9 Nov 2026 (1 day left)
- Area
- North East England; North West England
- Value
- £2,416,500
- Notice
- ██████ subscribers only
Supplier list opening
Framework for the Supply and Installation of Flooring Covers
- Buyer
- OXFORD DIRECT SERVICES LIMITED
- Apply by
- 9 Nov 2026 (1 day left)
- Area
- South East England
- Value
- No value stated
- Notice
- ██████ subscribers only
Supplier list opening
CPU 8387 Supply of Architectural Coating Materials
- Buyer
- Nottingham City Council
- Apply by
- 10 Nov 2026 (2 days left)
- Area
- Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
- Value
- £579,167
- Notice
- ██████ subscribers only
Supplier list opening
CM3531 - Pile Cloth Filter Servicing, Parts and Hire
- Buyer
- YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED
- Apply by
- 11 Nov 2026 (3 days left)
- Area
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Value
- No value stated
- Notice
- ██████ subscribers only
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Every notice here is real and was still open when this page
was built. The link through to each official notice is part of the
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How much construction work comes up
- 599
- notices published, last 30 days
- 441
- still open to bid for, right now
- £400,000
- middle one-off contract value
- 75
- supplier lists opening
In the 30 days to 7 November 2026, UK public buyers published
599 construction and building
notices. Over the last 90 days it was 1,652.
Separately, 441
are open to bid for as this page loaded.
That is a different count, not a slice of the one above: it includes notices
published before this window that are still accepting bids, and it leaves out
any that have already closed.
The shape of the work matters as much as the amount.
499 of
them are one-off contracts
you bid for directly. 75
are supplier lists
being opened — a framework or a dynamic market, where getting a place means
being asked to quote for that buyer's work for years rather than winning one
job. 25 are competitions among firms already on a list, closed to everyone else, and
they are not in the carousel
above for that reason.
The one-off contracts are worth what the buyers say they are worth, and the
spread is wide. 395 of the
499 stated a value. The middle one was
£400,000; half of them sat between
£125,000 and £2,290,000; the smallest was
£1. 68 were under £100,000, which is the size a firm without a bid writer can
take on without clearing its diary. 104 stated no value at all, which is common
below threshold and is why Bidfeed does not drop a notice for
having no number on it.
Those figures are one-off contracts only. A framework or
a dynamic market states the total across every supplier for the whole life
of the arrangement, which is not a sum any single firm is paid, so mixing
the two would give you a number nobody could earn.
Who is buying
Public building work comes from the organisations that own and maintain public property, and over the 30 days to 7 November 2026 that was
408 separate buyers across
599 notices. Grouped by what each one calls itself in
its own notice:
- Councils
248
- Other public bodies
196
- Housing associations
50
- Schools, colleges and universities
43
- NHS bodies
39
- Police and fire
23
That grouping is read from the buyer's own published
name, so a body whose name says nothing about what it is lands in "other
public bodies" rather than being guessed at.
One real example from each group, taken straight from the notices:
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council (Councils); VIVID Housing Ltd (Housing associations); New College Swindon (Schools, colleges and universities); Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (NHS bodies); The Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire (Police and fire). Those are buyers who published cleaning work in this window.
They are not customers, not partners and not endorsements — none of them has
anything to do with Bidfeed.
Two things follow from who they are, and both change how you bid. The
first is that a lot of cleaning work never appears as a one-off contract
at all: the buyer sets up a supplier list and then calls off work from it
for years without advertising again. The second is that public buyers
publish because they are required to, not because they are marketing to
you, which is why the notices are dull, long and easy to miss.
Where the work is
Building work follows the buildings, and public buildings are in every part of the country. Across the same
599 notices, this is the spread by nation:
- England
342
- Scotland
74
- Wales
66
- United Kingdom (nationwide)
58
- Northern Ireland
31
A notice can name more than one area, so these can add
up to more than the total. A notice open to a supplier anywhere is counted
once, as nationwide, and not again under each nation. A notice that names
no area at all is in none of them.
That matters for a small firm because a notice tagged for the whole UK is
often still winnable from one town — and a notice tagged for the county
next door usually is not. Choosing your patch is the single setting that
changes a digest most.
How these get to you every morning
Watching this page is one way. The other is to let it come to you.
Bidfeed reads the same official services every day, keeps
the notices that fit your trade, your part of the country and the size
of contract you want, and emails you a short digest: what the job is,
who is buying, the deadline, the value, and a plain go or no-go with
the reason. On a day with nothing worth your evening it sends nothing
at all.
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Common questions
Where do these construction contracts come from?
The official UK public procurement notice services, which is where public buyers are required to publish: Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland. Nothing on this page is typed in by hand. One limit, stated plainly: we do not read Sell2Wales or eTendersNI directly, so a small number of lower-value Welsh and Northern Irish notices that appear only on those services are missed.
How often is this page updated?
Every morning. The feeds are read every day and this page is built from whatever is in them when you open it, so a contract that closed yesterday is gone and one published this morning is here. Every count on the page is worked out at the moment you load it, from the notices themselves.
Why do some of these say supplier list instead of contract?
Because that is what they are. A framework or a dynamic market is a list of approved suppliers a buyer will use for a type of work, often for four years. It is not a job you bid for today; it is a door, and getting through it means being asked to quote for that buyer's construction work for as long as the list runs. The value shown on those notices is the total across every supplier for the whole life of the arrangement, not a job one firm would win, which is why the numbers look large.
Do I need a bid writer to go for these?
No. What stops most small firms is not the writing, it is never hearing about the notice until the week it closes. Bidfeed exists because the reading is the expensive part, not the bidding.
How big does my construction business have to be?
Anything from a sole trader upwards. Bidfeed is built for firms too small to employ a bid writer, which in practice runs up to a couple of hundred staff. You tell us your trade, the parts of the country you work in and the largest contract you want to see, and the filter is built from that.
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