Real Estate & Facilities tenders in United Kingdom

146 open notices

Property, leasing, facility management, maintenance and building-services contracts from public and private owners.

Who buys real estate & facilities in United Kingdom

These are the organisations with the most real estate & facilities notices open in United Kingdom right now. Buyers in this sector tend to repeat — following the few that award the work you do is usually more productive than watching the market as a whole.

Leicester City Council · 6
Manchester City Council · 4
London Borough of Waltham Forest · 3
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council (NMD) · 3
Central Bedfordshire Council · 3
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council · 3
Ministry of Defence · 3
Woven Housing Association Ltd · 2

Real Estate & Facilities market snapshot

Since 28 Feb 2025, FreeTender has recorded 152 real estate & facilities notices in United Kingdom, 90 of them open today. The median bid window is 28 days, so plan to have documents ready before a notice appears. Where buyers state a value, the median is GBP 1.1 million (128 priced notices).

Notices on record: 152
Open now: 90
Median bid window: 28 days
Median stated value: GBP 1.1 million

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Most active real estate & facilities buyers

Leicester City Council6 notices
Natural England6 notices
Central Bedfordshire Council3 notices
Choice Housing Ireland Limited3 notices
Northern Ireland Housing Executive3 notices
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council (NMD)3 notices
London Borough of Waltham Forest2 notices
Newark And Sherwood District Council2 notices
UK Atomic Energy Authority2 notices
London Borough of Camden2 notices

By sub-sector

Procedures used

Open tender103 notices
rfi36 notices
Standing arrangement6 notices
Grant / funding call1 notices
Consultancy1 notices

Computed by FreeTender from the notices we hold, refreshed nightly. Monthly market reports.

How they buy

UK public procurement is published centrally — Find a Tender for higher-value contracts and Contracts Finder for lower-value ones — alongside sectoral portals for the NHS, local authorities and devolved administrations. Framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems account for a large share of spend, so much of the market is reached by getting onto a framework rather than by bidding for individual contracts.

Across the real estate & facilities notices we currently hold for United Kingdom, the most common form is the rfi, followed by open tender or invitation to bid, dps and request for quotation. Each has its own rules — see RFP, RFQ and EOI compared and tendering procedures explained.

What qualifies you

Suppliers complete a standard selection questionnaire covering financial standing, insurance, health and safety, and relevant experience. Above-threshold procurements follow published procedures with defined standstill periods before award. Social value is a scored element in central government procurement, so a proposal that ignores it loses marks that are available to everyone.

Real-estate and facilities tenders include property leasing, facility management, housekeeping, security and building maintenance. Service contracts define scope, manpower, service levels and penalties, and often run for multiple years. Price for the full term and confirm any statutory-compliance and manpower obligations.

Before committing effort, it is worth running a deliberate bid/no-bid decision and checking your submission against the responsiveness checklist.