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Public tenders in North West
One of the busiest regional markets: metro mayoral bodies, two big city councils, NHS trusts and dozens of districts buying everything from works to care services.
Open notices a firm like yours can bid for, pulled from major GB public-sector sources and refreshed daily. You only need the right ones.
£24.8bn+
stated value tracked
137
smaller / council-portal
A taste of what's live
The most recently published open tenders naming North West:
EHRC 2627-17 Wales Equality Objective Research
Equality and Human Rights Commission · £20,000 · closes 2 Sept · Find a Tender
Strong fit · 8/10Example score - once we know your business, North West work like this is scored to your trade, scale and distance from base, with a written reason and a bid / no-bid call before you commit a day. The free gov portals just list it.
Littlehampton Museum Options Appraisal Consultant
Littlehampton Town Council · £7,000 · closes 10 Aug · Find a Tender
ITT for Hot Cell
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · £300,000 · Find a Tender
Regional Clean Energy Skills Coordination and Action Planning
ENTERPRISE CHESHIRE AND WARRINGTON · £80,000 · closes 25 Aug · Find a Tender
Care at Home and Night Service
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council · closes 2 Sept · Find a Tender
End States - Lotted Procurement - Radiological support & Optimising studies
Nuclear Restoration Services Limited · £995,000 · closes 3 Sept · Find a Tender
Example score shown for illustration. Your own matches are scored to your business once you add it - free, no card.
Closing soon in North West
Open now, deadline within three weeks - soonest first. Miss the date and you miss the contract.
- 1 day
The Provision of Concierge and Security Services
Chorley Council · Find a Tender
- 1 day
Step Up To Social Work Cohort 10 Emerging Talent Contractor
Department for Education · Find a Tender
- 1 day
Bus Operator Services for Certain Bus routes 2026-2027
Westmorland and Furness Council · Find a Tender
- 1 day
Post Office Branch - Upton Heath
Post Office Limited · Find a Tender
- 2 days
Security Gate Maintenance
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire · Find a Tender
- 2 days
North Northamptonshire Local Plan - Habitats Regulations Assessment
North Northamptonshire Council · Find a Tender
Add your business and BidSquirrel tracks every North West deadline for you, flags the ones that fit, and helps you win them - free to start.
How North West buys, and who buys
The North West is one of the busiest regional markets in the country, with two large combined authorities - Greater Manchester and the Liverpool City Region - sitting over dozens of districts, two major city councils and a dense set of NHS and housing buyers. The shared advertising portal is The Chest, used by local authorities across the region, with shared-service teams such as STAR Procurement running buying for several Greater Manchester councils.
Because buying is spread across so many bodies, opportunities here can appear on The Chest, on a council's own system and on the national portals - and the smallest work often never reaches a national site at all. Watching the region properly means covering several systems at once, which is exactly the kind of fragmentation that catches suppliers out.
Public buyers concentrated here
Portals & frameworks that serve North West
The smallest work often never reaches a national portal at all, living instead as invitation-only quick quotes on the regional systems. We watch every source so North West notices reach you in one place, not one portal at a time.
Guides for North West bidders
New to bidding? Start with our free SME’s guide to winning public-sector contracts.
Browse North West tenders by industry
Narrow to your trade or service - each industry page covers how the work is bought, the buyers and frameworks, and what is live now.
Social value North West buyers reward
Public buyers here often score social value at 10-30% of the marks. The priorities that recur across North West:
- Local employment and local spend / community wealth building - this is the North West's signature. The Preston Model (Preston City Council and Lancashire anchor institutions) moved local procurement from 39% to ~79%, and Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region both build their frameworks around keeping spend, jobs and supply chains inside the city region. Leading with credible LOCAL hiring, local supplier spend and apprenticeships lands hardest here.
- Fair employment - the real Living Wage, and in Greater Manchester specifically the GM Good Employment Charter. GM buyers routinely use real Living Wage and Good Employment Charter membership as award criteria for those delivering the contract. Secure, fairly-paid local work is a core North West theme, not an add-on.
- Net zero and climate / carbon reduction - both combined authorities have ambitious targets (Liverpool City Region net zero by 2040; Greater Manchester by 2038) and embed carbon into contracts. Manchester City Council awards an extra ~10% of the score specifically for tackling climate change on top of its 20% social value. Carbon Reduction Plans and practical decarbonisation commitments are expected.
Quick wins you can commit to
- Commit to specific, evidenced LOCAL hiring and local spend. Name the city region (Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, Lancashire), give a real number of local jobs or a percentage of contract spend you will place with local/SME sub-suppliers, and say how you will prove it (payroll postcodes, purchase-ledger reports). Local spend is THE North West lever - vague 'we support local' claims score nothing.
- Pay the real Living Wage to everyone delivering the contract, and in Greater Manchester sign up to (or commit to working towards) the GM Good Employment Charter. Being a real Living Wage employer is cheap to state, easy to evidence, and directly rewarded across GM buyers.
- Offer a concrete carbon commitment: a simple Carbon Reduction Plan, a switch to a low-carbon delivery method (route planning, EV or cargo-bike deliveries, reduced site waste) and a measurable target. For Manchester City Council contracts especially, climate is separately scored, so a credible plan earns its own marks.
On any live tender, BidSquirrel writes your social value in the buyer's own framework and scoring style, tuned to what they reward. See your matches free.
Or get the North West tenders that fit you
BidSquirrel watches major GB sources daily and scores each tender against your business - trade, scale, distance from your base, eligibility. Pick one and it builds the full draft answer by answer from your own evidence, then stress-tests it against the criteria and hands it back to you with the facts to confirm. 488 live tenders in North West right now; you only need the right ones.
And when it comes to the number, we help you price the bid to win - a costed build-up and the value-for-money case, the axis no SME rival covers.
See what you could winNorth West tenders: common questions
Where are North West public sector tenders advertised?
Above-threshold contracts in North West are published on Find a Tender, while below-threshold and council work is spread across The Chest (North West portal), STAR Procurement, YPO frameworks. BidSquirrel watches these major sources and brings North West notices into one feed, each scored to your business.
How do I find low-value council work in North West?
Much of the low-value local-authority work in North West never reaches a national portal - it lives as invitation-only quick quotes on the regional council systems (typically ProContract). You have to be registered with your categories set, or use a tool like BidSquirrel that monitors the major sources for you.
Can BidSquirrel match North West tenders to my business?
Yes. BidSquirrel scores live North West tenders against your business, scale and location, gives a strong, fair or development verdict with the reasoning, and checks whether you are even eligible before you commit time to a bid.