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Public tenders in South East
The largest regional economy outside London: county frameworks, NHS estates, education and a constant stream of district-level works and 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.
£24.6bn+
stated value tracked
60
smaller / council-portal
54 authorities in South East publish their smaller contracts (under £30k) on a portal we do not index yet, so they are not in this feed.
A taste of what's live
The most recently published open tenders naming South East:
Provision of Taxi, Courier, parcel and Transport of Human Tissues & Blood Tests
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · £500,000 · closes 10 Aug · Find a Tender
Strong fit · 8/10Example score - once we know your business, South East 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.
Provision of a Cleaning Service at Fort Nelson
Royal Armouries Museum · £450,000 · closes 28 Aug · Find a Tender
EHRC 2627-17 Wales Equality Objective Research
Equality and Human Rights Commission · £20,000 · closes 2 Sept · Find a Tender
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
Winter Night Shelter
Medway Council · £360,000 · closes 26 Aug · 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 South East
Open now, deadline within three weeks - soonest first. Miss the date and you miss the contract.
- 1 day
Step Up To Social Work Cohort 10 Emerging Talent Contractor
Department for Education · Find a Tender
- 1 day
Site Steam Upgrade Project - Principal Contractor Design & Installation Package
THE PIRBRIGHT INSTITUTE · Find a Tender
- 1 day
Workshop Equipment Service, Maintenance and Repairs
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust · Find a Tender
- 1 day
Fibre Optic Bundles for MAST-U
UK Atomic Energy Authority · Find a Tender
- 2 days
Consultation for Lower Green Recreation Ground, Littleheath Recreation Ground and George Froude Open Space
Elmbridge Borough Council · Find a Tender
- 2 days
Security Gate Maintenance
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire · Find a Tender
Add your business and BidSquirrel tracks every South East deadline for you, flags the ones that fit, and helps you win them - free to start.
How South East buys, and who buys
The South East is the largest regional economy outside London, with a constant stream of county frameworks, NHS estates work, education contracts and district-level services. Several authorities advertise through the South East Business Portal, while some of the larger counties - Kent among them - run their own dedicated tender portals for higher-value work, so the advertising is more fragmented here than in the consolidated northern regions.
Construction and major works are often routed through bodies such as the Southern Construction Framework (a Hampshire and Devon county-council joint venture), and collaborative supplies and services run through ESPO. Pairing the regional and council portals with a watch on Find a Tender is the realistic way to see the full pipeline.
Public buyers concentrated here
Portals & frameworks that serve South East
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 South East notices reach you in one place, not one portal at a time.
Guides for South East bidders
New to bidding? Start with our free SME’s guide to winning public-sector contracts.
Browse South East 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 South East buyers reward
Public buyers here often score social value at 10-30% of the marks. The priorities that recur across South East:
- Net zero and carbon reduction in the supply chain - the single most distinctive South East theme. Hampshire targets a 50% cut by 2025 and neutrality by 2050 and pushes low embodied carbon in construction and climate KPIs into care contracts; Oxfordshire wants a zero-carbon county by 2050 and asks suppliers for carbon reduction plans; West Sussex requires key suppliers to share supply-chain emissions data. Expect a Carbon Reduction Plan (PPN 006) ask on larger lots.
- Local employment, skills and apprenticeships - creating jobs, training and work-experience placements for local residents, with particular weight on the long-term unemployed and young people not in education, employment or training (NEET). West Sussex and Kent are explicit on this; it maps to Social Value Model Theme 2 (Tackling economic inequality).
- Local and SME/VCSE spend - keeping money in the local economy by opening supply-chain and subcontracting opportunities to local small businesses and the voluntary/community sector. Brighton & Hove (community wealth building) and Oxfordshire both name increasing local supplier spend as a core aim.
Quick wins you can commit to
- Commit to paying the real Living Wage (the current Living Wage Foundation rate) to everyone working on the contract, and say you will ask any subcontractors to do the same. This is directly rewarded in Brighton & Hove and reads well region-wide - evidence it with your payroll policy and a Living Wage commitment in the bid.
- Put one concrete carbon action on the table and evidence it: a simple Carbon Reduction Plan (the PPN 006 template is free), switching to a local/low-emission supplier or route, or a no-idling/EV-where-possible delivery commitment. The South East (Hampshire, Oxfordshire, West Sussex) scores this hard, and a short honest plan beats vague 'we care about the environment' claims.
- Offer a specific, countable local-people commitment sized to the job: e.g. 'X hours of work experience for a local NEET young person', one apprenticeship or T-level placement, or a set number of local jobs advertised through the council's/Jobcentre channels. Naming a number lets National TOMs buyers (Surrey/East Sussex/Orbis) score and track it.
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 South East 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. 476 live tenders in South East 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 winSouth East tenders: common questions
Where are South East public sector tenders advertised?
Above-threshold contracts in South East are published on Find a Tender, while below-threshold and council work is spread across South East Business Portal, ESPO frameworks, Southern Construction Framework. BidSquirrel watches these major sources and brings South East notices into one feed, each scored to your business.
How do I find low-value council work in South East?
Much of the low-value local-authority work in South East 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 South East tenders to my business?
Yes. BidSquirrel scores live South East 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.