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Construction & Public Works tenders in United Kingdom.
Sell to State lists 8 United Kingdom portals and buyers that publish construction and public works tenders. The award numbers below come from Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland award notices.
Search United Kingdom Construction & Public Works tenders →🇬🇧 Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland award notices · Nov 2024 – Oct 2026
Who wins construction and public works contracts in the United Kingdom?
CPV sector: the sector of each award's CPV code, the EU classification of what a contract buys. Other counts on the site use keyword labels and can differ.
323 construction and public works awards in the United Kingdom went to 250 suppliers from November 2024 to October 2026. Of 250 winning suppliers, 84% won once. Their awards are 65% of the total. The top 1% of suppliers won 4% of the awards, below the median for construction and public works across 18 countries: 8%.
Ranked by stated value, the top 1% of suppliers hold 53% of GBP 4.52 billion. That is 49 points above the top 1% share of awards. No supplier won more than 2% of the awards. PBS Construction (North East) Limited won the most: 6.
- Awards
- 323
- Contract awards from Nov 2024 – Oct 2026, each counted once.
- Winning suppliers
- 250
- Suppliers with one or more awards, counted by normalised name.
- Won one award
- 84%
- Share of winning suppliers with exactly one award.
- Top 1% of suppliers
- 4%
- Share of awards won by the 2 suppliers with the most awards.
Fewer than 2,000 awards in this window. Read the numbers with care.
Top suppliers
| # | Supplier | Awards | Share of awards | Stated value (GBP) | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PBS Construction (North East) Limited | 6 | 2% | 2.29 million | under 1% |
| 2 | J.P. DEVELOPERS LIMITED | 6 | 2% | 1.04 million | under 1% |
| 3 | Saltash Enterprises Limited | 5 | 2% | 2.77 million | under 1% |
| 4 | Stonbury Limited | 5 | 2% | 790,384 | under 1% |
| 5 | Esh Construction Limited | 4 | 1% | 4.85 million | under 1% |
| 6 | Greyline Group Limited | 4 | 1% | 2.16 million | under 1% |
| 7 | PFL Electrical Ltd | 4 | 1% | 1.20 million | under 1% |
| 8 | Geo Houlton & Sons Ltd | 4 | 1% | 571,423 | under 1% |
| 9 | Amalgamated Construction Ltd (AmcoGiffen) | 4 | 1% | 462,151 | under 1% |
| 10 | Hanson Quarry Products Europe Ltd T/A Heidelberg Materials Contr | 4 | 1% | 212,705 | under 1% |
Top buyers
| # | Buyer | Awards | Share of awards | Stated value (GBP) | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL | 28 | 9% | 2.18 million | under 1% |
| 2 | EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE COUNCIL | 21 | 7% | 11.1 million | under 1% |
| 3 | Environment Agency | 21 | 7% | 3.94 million | under 1% |
| 4 | Aberdeenshire Council | 18 | 6% | 1.76 million | under 1% |
| 5 | Wessex Water Services Limited | 18 | 6% | – | – |
| 6 | London Borough of Hillingdon | 13 | 4% | 6.13 million | under 1% |
| 7 | AMEY DEFENCE SERVICES LIMITED | 9 | 3% | 11.2 million | under 1% |
| 8 | ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL | 6 | 2% | 3.99 million | under 1% |
| 9 | Nottinghamshire County Council | 6 | 2% | 536,440 | under 1% |
| 10 | South Ayrshire Council | 5 | 2% | 1.99 million | under 1% |
Stated value: the amount in each award notice, split between joint winners and capped at the 99.9th percentile.
How we counted
- Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland award notices for the United Kingdom. One record is one contract award: a buyer, a supplier, a date and, where the source gives it, an amount.
- November 2024 to October 2026. This is the latest 24 months of our data for the United Kingdom, up to the last month with a normal number of awards.
- 5% of the award records for the United Kingdom in this window have a CPV code. A record without a code is in no sector. Construction & Public Works here means construction work (CPV 45): buildings such as hospitals and schools, railway works, water and sewer pipelines, and installation work. It leaves out road and bridge works (Roads & Bridges), power-line and power-plant works (Energy & Power), design and engineering services (Consulting), and building materials (CPV 44). Each award counts in one sector only. We do not use our keyword sector labels here. A hand check found too many wrong labels for most sectors. How we counted in 39 countries.
- We count each award once: one notice, one amount, one date. We leave out awards with no supplier name, placeholder names such as "persona natural", names that are only a legal form, and names that appear on thousands of unrelated awards.
- We count suppliers by normalised name. A firm under two spellings counts as two suppliers, so the "won one award" share is an upper bound.
- Stated value is the amount in the award notice, in GBP. It is often the ceiling of a framework agreement, and the money paid can be lower. When several winners share one notice and one amount, we split the amount. We cap each award at the 99.9th percentile of the awards in the United Kingdom. 86% of the awards state an amount, GBP 4.52 billion in total.
- These numbers show how the awards spread across suppliers. They do not show why.
Snapshot 31 October 2026. Awards from November 2024 to October 2026. The numbers change when we add new awards.
The app shows the same counts for the other sectors in the United Kingdom and for each live country.
Read the United Kingdom data story →Sell to State holds Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland award notices for the United Kingdom. Describe the construction and public works work you sell in plain English and get tender IDs, buyers, values and dates.
United Kingdom portals with construction and public works tenders
This is a directory of portals. The numbers above come from Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland award notices only.
Contracts Finder
IT Services · Defense · NHS Healthcare · Professional Services · Infrastructure
eTendersNI (Northern Ireland)
Construction · IT Systems · Healthcare · Professional Services · Education
Public Contracts Scotland
IT Services · Construction · Healthcare · Professional Services · Social Care
Homes England Procurement
construction · Public housing · Housing · civil-works · Infrastructure
National Highways — Procurement
construction · engineering · maintenance · technology · professional-services
Network Rail Supply Chain Portal
Rail infrastructure · rail · Rolling Stock · signaling · Signaling
Transport for London — Procurement
construction · engineering · IT · maintenance · professional-services
Sell2Wales Welsh Procurement Portal
Construction · IT Services · Healthcare · Professional Services · Social Services
Other United Kingdom tender sectors
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Questions
- Who won the most construction and public works contracts in the United Kingdom?
- PBS Construction (North East) Limited won the most construction and public works awards in the United Kingdom from November 2024 to October 2026: 6 of 323 (2%). J.P. DEVELOPERS LIMITED won 6 and Saltash Enterprises Limited won 5. The top 10 is on this page.
- How many construction and public works suppliers in the United Kingdom win only one contract?
- 84% of the 250 suppliers with a construction and public works award in the window won exactly one. Together they hold 65% of the awards. We count suppliers by normalised name, so this share is an upper bound.
- How concentrated are construction and public works contracts in the United Kingdom?
- The top 1% of suppliers (2) won 4% of the awards, and the top 10% won 26%. The Gini coefficient of awards across suppliers is 0.20: 0 means that each supplier wins the same number, and 1 means that one supplier wins all. By stated value, the top 1% hold 53%.
- Which buyers sign the most construction and public works contracts in the United Kingdom?
- NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL signed the most: 28 awards (9%). The ten largest buyers signed 45% of the 323 awards from November 2024 to October 2026.
- Where are construction and public works tenders published in the United Kingdom?
- Sell to State lists 8 portals that publish construction and public works tenders in the United Kingdom, for example Contracts Finder, eTendersNI (Northern Ireland), Public Contracts Scotland. We hold Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland award notices for the United Kingdom.
- Can foreign vendors bid on United Kingdom construction and public works contracts?
- Eligibility depends on each tender's rules and the procurement law of the United Kingdom. Many construction and public works contracts are open to international bidders, sometimes through a local partner or a registration. Always check the notice itself; Sell to State links the source listing so you can verify it.
- How does Sell to State help with United Kingdom construction and public works procurement?
- Sell to State collects Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland award notices for the United Kingdom on a regular schedule. Every record shows its publication date.
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