Maintenance & Repair Government Tenders in United Kingdom

Why these contracts are priced as rates rather than as a job

Maintenance is bought without knowing what will break. That single fact shapes the whole category: instead of a price for a defined scope, bidders price a schedule of rates -- a published list of individual operations, each with a unit and a rate -- and work is instructed, measured and paid against that list for the life of the contract. There is usually no guaranteed volume. A supplier that wins on rates and then receives a fraction of the expected instructions has won exactly what the contract promised, and bidders who model fixed overhead against hoped-for turnover are the ones who fail mid-term.

The specification splits into planned and reactive work, and they are scored differently. Planned preventive maintenance is a schedule against an asset register: known frequencies, known tasks, statutory inspections that must happen whether anything is wrong or not. Reactive work is governed by priority categories with an attendance time and a rectification time attached to each, and performance against those times is the measure the contract actually manages. Bidders should read the priority matrix before the task list, because it determines the standby cover the price has to carry.

Two obligations are easy to miss and expensive to retrofit. The first is data: buyers increasingly require every job to be raised, updated and closed in their own asset management system, with asset condition and remaining life fed back, so the supplier is maintaining the record as well as the asset. The second is statutory compliance evidence -- certificates for pressure systems, lifting equipment, electrical installations, fire safety and water hygiene -- which the buyer must be able to produce to a regulator on demand and which therefore becomes a contractual deliverable with dates attached.

This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.

Who buys maintenance & repair in United Kingdom?

GlobalGov holds 5,535 maintenance & repair records from 1,911 distinct buying organisations in United Kingdom. The most frequent publishers are Transport For London (60 records); Ministry Of Defence (58 records); Crown Commercial Service (40 records); NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-procurement Services (hosted By Velindre University NHS Trust) (39 records); Uclpartners Procurement Services (36 records); Derbyshire County Council (35 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 4.8% of everything published, so buying here is spread across many separate authorities.

What are maintenance & repair contracts worth in United Kingdom?

3,818 of the 5,535 records publish a contract value. The median is $508,000 and the largest single published value is $10.1B. By size, 856 under $100k, 1,533 between $100k and $1M, 948 between $1M and $10M, 481 above $10M. The remaining 1,717 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.

How long do bidders get to respond to maintenance & repair tenders in United Kingdom?

Across the 1,724 United Kingdom maintenance & repair notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 30 days. A quarter of them allowed 23 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 34. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 170 (9.9%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are maintenance & repair tenders published in United Kingdom?

United Kingdom publishes about 120 notices a month in this category, 1,442 in the last twelve months. That is 149% more than the 580 published in the twelve months before that. Over the last three years there were 2,378, spread across 145 separate months of activity since 1 May 2006. November is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 30 September 2026.

How does United Kingdom compare with other maintenance & repair markets?

Among the 40 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable maintenance & repair market, United Kingdom ranks 4th by number of records. The largest is Australia (35,937 records against 5,535 here). Within United Kingdom itself, maintenance & repair is the 1st largest of the 39 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the United Kingdom maintenance & repair records on this page come from?

These 5,535 records are collected from 5 official sources: Contracts Finder (2,226), the Kenya PPRA (1,675), Find a Tender (1,372), TED (194) and 1 smaller source. GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.

Most recent Maintenance & Repair tenders in United Kingdom

None of these are open for bids now — they are the most recent records GlobalGov holds for this market, kept here so the shape of a typical maintenance & repair notice in United Kingdom is visible. Set an alert to be told when the next one opens.

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